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“If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.”

Ifs Would Be Empty Towns Access Donation

Author:David Brooks

“The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.”

Faces Empty Pockets Thieves Traveller Empty Pockets

Author:Juvenal

“I think everyone has the same question on their mind: Is the glass half-full or half-empty?”

Thinking Mind Half Empty Glasses Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full

Author:Oliver Stone

“Speaking of [Colin] Kaepernick, did you see what [Barack] Obama said about Kaepernick? I mean this was the biggest dodge I have ever seen. This may have been the most vacuous or empty statement on anything, because Obama clearly wanted to agree with Kaepernick but couldn't.”

May Mean Has Beens Said Wanted Empty Agree Statements Barack Dodge Vacuous Kaepernick

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The Sacrament [of the Holy Eucharist] is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces. When the almighty and eternal God comes to us with all the perfection of His thrice holy humanity and His divinity, He surely does not come empty-handed.”

Doe Humanity Grace Holy Eternal Perfection Empty Divinity Almighty Sacraments Eucharist Thrice Holy Eucharist

Author:Angela of Foligno

“As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.”

People Seems Might House Sound Silence Solitude Empty Empty Houses Sounds Of Silence

Author:Sally Brampton

“The further he raided, the closer he came to the other rooms. Those unused, cobwebbed chambers of her heart. Would he dare to venture there? She doubted. Jumping off a cliff was a flashy sort of courage, but a man would need true strength and valor to break through those padlocked doors. There were dark, uncharted spaces within her that had been built to house love, and even she was afraid to explore them. Terrified to learn just how vast and how achingly empty they truly were.”

“The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.”

Thinking Giving Girl Nice Wind Return Giving Up Empty Expected Disappointed Something Better Nice Girl

Book:Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

“Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.”

Ifs Book Would Be Left Paper Empty Passages

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“Zagreus was the son of Zeus. He was slain by the Titans, buried at the foot of Mount Parnassus, and rose from the dead as Dionysos. He was the god of fruit and wine. Like those of Christ his most devoted followers were women. He is the beloved son and occupies a throne at the right hand of his father, Zeus. His empty tomb at Delphi was long preserved by his devotees as proof of his death, and resurrection.”

Long Hands Father Christ Feet Atheism Son Empty Wine Rose Fruit Positive Atheism Proof Beloved Followers Buried Resurrection Devoted Thrones Tombs Zeus Devotee Titans Beloved Son Delphi

Author:John Remsburg

“In the early 1990s, I briefly got involved in Italian politics. But that intermezzo lasted just two years and had little success. I also found politics emotionally empty.”

Years Littles Two Found Involved Empty Two Years Italian

Author:Luciano Benetton

“When I was about 16 years old, God was beckoning me and calling me. He was relentless with me and I finally just gave up. I got to a point in my life where I realized that everything I was trying to grasp for was leaving me empty. It was totally unsatisfying.”

Trying Years Calling Empty Leaving I Realized Leaving Me Relentless Gave Up Beckoning

Author:Dominic Balli

“Grace isn't about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and never come up empty. It's when you finally realize that the other shoe isn't going to drop, ever.”

Use Realizing Chance Grace Empty Eternity Shoes Come Up Second Chance

Author:Shauna Niequist

“Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.”

May Age Youth Empty Wine Appearance Deceived Pitcher Old Wine Outward Appearance

Author:Judah the Prince

“Everyone we love builds a home in our heart. And when they are gone we spend eternity staring at their empty seat.”

Heart Home Gone Empty Eternity Staring Seats Empty Seats

Author:Bindi Irwin

“It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.”

Turns Black Waste Flow Rivers Empty Metaphor Expensive Neighborhood Maps Pipe Dickens Triangles Sewers Sewage

Author:Robert Hass

“If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.”

Ifs Way Writing House Empty My Time Bottles Gave Up Obsessive Bombing Soda Skyscraper Yarn

Author:Eden Robinson

“I used to find places in high school and college, empty rooms or spaces with pianos. Instead of going to a party, I'd play alone for hours. It became my buddy.”

Play School Used Hours Space Rooms Party College High School Empty Piano Buddy Empty Rooms

Author:Rachael Yamagata

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

Concepts Empty Philosophical Blind Intuition Critique

Book:Critique of pure reason

Source: Critique of pure reason

“For the first time [with the Bible] - I know this sounds so corny - but I knew love. I had such an empty love tank. I had all the questions to life that didn't make sense. Two and two didn't add up to four. From my father's death - if you loved me, why did you leave me? Why did you kill yourself? And so when this happened, it took my life in a completely different direction.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Two Different Father Sound Four Happened First Time Empty Add Make Sense Leaving Me Corny Tanks Different Directions Killing Yourself

Author:Paula White

“When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.”

World Empty Sells Seats Gates Bucks Empty Seats

Author:David Neeleman

“Breakup blackout is when you're so upset and you've been crying so much that you basically black out for a couple of days. You wake up to mascara caked on your face and empty ice cream cartons everywhere, and your iTunes has, like, four new really bad romantic comedies you've rented. And your friends are texting you, and for three days you're in this black hole.”

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Author:Rumer Willis

“I certainly won't have an empty life!”

Empty Empty Life

Author:Indira Gandhi

“If we could turn around and stand back, then we would see the whole complete pattern. And therefore what we have to do in this lifetime is to perfect this pattern, so that it will continue a most beautiful pattern next time and next time and next time and next time because we vowed until samsara is empty! Now, that's going to be a long time, so you'd better get prepared for the long haul, and the best way to do that is to really prepare yourself as much as possible in this lifetime, and not waste your opportunities so that we can genuinely benefit beings, endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.”

Ifs Way Long Whole Beautiful Turns Next Opportunity Perfect Waste Benefits Long Time Empty Prepared Lifetime Patterns Best Way Next Time Haul Long Haul Samsara

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Kind Acting Stupid Possibility Empty

Author:Erich Fromm

“As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It was really an empty room taped out with the same dimensions of the library. And they had the tables all there. And he had us sitting at the same table. All of us.”

School Space Rooms Building Sitting Built Empty Tables Library Clubs Dimensions Breakfast Gym Rehearsal Empty Rooms

Author:Judd Nelson

“I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Shows Care Guy Crazy Empty Should Have West China Museums Old Guys

Author:Ai Weiwei

“But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.”

Knows Guy Half Fire Negative Empty Glasses Fuel Leaks Nancy Half Empty Curmudgeon

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.”

Thinking Knows Character Term Half Empty Claims Bounds Glasses Boxes Optimistic Promoting Programmes Half Empty Reticence

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.”

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Author:Bashar al-Assad

“We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.”

Knows Humans Human Beings Mom Empty Hunger My Mom Stomach Shopping Reacting Empty Stomach

Author:Trevor Noah

“I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But it's a very empty idea. There are plenty of places where religion does not keep off the scientific turf.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, "What did they teach you?" And she said, "They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room." I'm happy to say she was laughing while she said it, but she meant it. I've never learned to be a candle burning in an empty room. So I go on the screen, and I say whatever I'm told to say.”

Said School America Girl Rooms Teach Laughing Taught Goes On Drama Empty England Screens Burning Candle Empty Rooms Candles Burning

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Once upon a time there were the Pampas in Argentina, that people could treat as "empty lands" and where they could run away from their problems from problem-ridden homes. That eventuality is no longer available.”

People Problem Home Running Land Empty Treats Available Running Away Once Upon A Time Argentina

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.”

Jesus Empty Winter Tombs

Author:Max Lucado

“God wants no one to leave our presence empty handed.”

Want Empty

Author:Max Lucado

“The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child.”

Way Should Children Moving Energy Felt Empty Up And Down Spine

Author:Laura Huxley

“Comedians a lot of times we're on the road, we're by our self. We come home to New York to our empty one-bedroom apartment, you know, and we need a place to go where you see a bunch of other miserable people sit around and eat a corned beef sandwich.”

People Knows Needs Self Home New York Empty Bunch Miserable Comedian Coming Home Apartment Bedroom Sandwiches Beef Places To Go Miserable People

Author:Jeff Ross

“What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness that much of our society is running from, and we search for relief in our phones and computers, our online communities, our social networks of friends.”

Thinking Running Social Community Emotion Loneliness Computer Messages Empty Dating Phones Posts Relief Our Society Online Ignored Social Network Apps Inbox

Author:Alexander Weinstein

“Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.”

People Knows Littles Enough Problem Bigs Planets Mouths Empty Abuse Greed Incredibles Ghost Hungry Buddhist Belly

Author:Alice Walker

“Here's the number one reason Americans are heavy: The brain, very smartly, wants nutrition. But the average American is not eating nutrients; he or she is eating empty calories. So you finish that 2,000 calories and your brain says, Keep going until you get nutrients.”

Want Reason Numbers Brain Eating Empty Average Heavy Keep Going Nutrition Calories Very Smart Nutrients

Author:Mehmet Oz

“Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“My witness is the empty sky.”

Sky Travel Empty Witness Aquarius

Author:Jack Kerouac

“When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say even into the twentieth, that allows Europe to look at Africa, Asia Minor, or East Asia in a way that's revelatory but also as a place in which you can empty yourself out. A place in which there is no place. It's an emptiness and a location at once.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown money for their research institutions, for their universities, for their professors, they are very quick to say yes, and I can tell you that when Monsanto came to Kenya, they were able to be given permission to do research in one of our research institutions, and yet there was not a single law to control such research.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious avoidance of dealing with what the reality of being a man might be outside of empty concepts from ancient history.”

Men Needs Has Beens Reality Might Deals Economy Conscious Concepts Empty Response Ancient Stupidity Rage Avoidance Ancient History Changing Everything

Author:Stephen Marche

“My view on well-being and fulfillment comes from Maslow and positive psychology, and that is that you're satisfying three sets of needs. First need is physiological and safety needs: Got to satisfy those first. And the second is you got to satisfy your community needs because we're social animals, and if we don't have that, we're empty and we don't have people to share knowledge and bounce things off of, and challenge ourselves. And then the third is the idea is to find a calling.”

“I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.”

Thinking Feels Film Empty

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life.”

“A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is to help people understand the correlation between a steady diet of empty calories - though you may not experience hunger pangs, you can't really function well if all you're eating are things like ramen noodles, or chips, cookies, and sodas, things that are quite typically inexpensive and affordable because of the way we subsidize the ingredients that go into them.”

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