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“The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.”

Mind Firsts Form Position Clothes Empty Stuck Graves Disciple Easter Tombs Easter Season

Author:Josh McDowell

“Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.”

Process Letting Go Anxiety Empty Abundance

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?”

Facts Inspiration Beautiful Spirit Feet Empty Skins Blind Shoes Noble Boots Garments Nudists

Author:Michelangelo

“Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.”

“To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.”

Sun Sea Solitude Ocean Empty Embrace Setting Settings Beach Beach And Ocean Beach Ocean Cool Beach

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.”

Ifs Men Dream Left Rooms Talking Television Planets Tvs Communication Standing Empty Communicate Stranger Mysterious Stoves Empty Rooms

Book:America

Source: America

“Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.”

Firsts Soul Light Poor Sun Understood First Time Empty My Soul Lacking Bud Germs

Book:Memories

Source: Memories

“All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.”

People Feels Kind Home House Brain Doors Empty Available Coming Home Annoying Annoyed Brain Dead

Author:Graham Norton

“And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.”

Years Results Company Positive Years Ago Standing Empty Impact Recovery Operations Factories Loan Positive Impact

Author:Barack Obama

“Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.”

Way Poetry Empty Profession Baskets

Author:Mary Oliver

“Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.”

Heart Pain Space Serious My Heart Losing Daughter Empty My Daughter Empty Space

Author:Yoko Ono

“If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk.”

People Ifs Enjoy Walks Sky Empty Parks

Author:Yoko Ono

“I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of writers' block: So much space! So many plants to choose among, and yet none of them seem quite right!”

Giving Seems Might Space Calling Bed Spring Garden Empty Sight Give Me Plant Block Editors Writer's Block

Author:Susan Orlean

“The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.”

Values Party Republican Empty Republican Party Vessel Empty Vessels

Author:Rand Paul

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”

“We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.”

Mind Heart Persons Empty Emptiness

Author:M. Scott Peck

“People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.”

People Matter Hard Laughing Jokes Empty Let Me Nests Empty Nest

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings

“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.”

Heart Rooms Wise Empty Appreciation Emptiness Broken Heart Heart To Heart Home Is Where The Heart Is Great Hearts Empty Rooms Empty Heart Heart Full Of Love Full Hearts

Book:Voces reunidas

Source: Voces reunidas

“A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.”

Use Fire Six Gun Empty Managers Relief Villain Pitcher Shooter

Author:Dan Quisenberry

“Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.”

Ifs Knows Mean Dream Joy Wonder Tomorrow Sorrow Empty Weary Lonesome Tomorrow Brings

Author:Leon Redbone

“An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.”

Thinking Space Attitude Empty Drivers Optimist Curb Empty Space Empty Rooms Empty Souls

Author:Jules Renard

“My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.”

Writing Rich Strange Painting Wall Empty Opposites Juicy

Author:Tom Robbins

“I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.”

Ifs Important Matter Friendship Wealth Money Family Materials Friends Empty Very Good Convinced Cease Pleasant Relative Good Friend Material Things Very Good Friends

Author:David Rockefeller

“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.”

Humans Political Politics Money Failing Empty Stomach Unfortunate Pocketbooks Empty Stomach

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.”

Way Life Conditions Intellectual Argument Empty Treasure Enthusiasm Excitement Sand Coins Magnificence Squandering Empty Words Flipping A Coin Excitement Of Life

Author:George Sand

“Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.”

Thinking Desire Speak Atheism Fashion Empty Outcomes Creeds Vicious Foul

Book:An Open Letter to Mrs. Annie Besant: Being a Reply to Her Attacks on Hinduism

Source: An Open Letter to Mrs. Annie Besant: Being a Reply to Her Attacks on Hinduism

“Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.”

Ifs Earth Form Space Strange Waste Empty Mere Void

Book:The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.”

Thinking Years Forget Exercise Empty Letters Neglect Valentine Valentine's Day Forget It

Author:Dan Savage

“The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.”

Political Politics Genius Politician Empty Absolutes Labels Ministers Prime Prime Minister Luggage Flamboyant

Author:Aneurin Bevan

“If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.”

Ifs Inspiration Actors Empty Farmers Grain Mice Barns

Author:Walter Scott

“I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.”

Knows Air Arms Couple Empty Okay Flying

Author:Amy Sedaris

“Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”

Book Empty Dust Skulls Erudition

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”

Life Wisdom Funny Sound Empty Thrive Sarcastic Vessel Empty Vessels

Author:William Shakespeare

“An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.”

Would Be America Empty Sane Asylums

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.”

Ifs Knows Way I Can Three Process My Own Listening Judgment Empty Prejudice Come Up Hearing Interviews Exhausted

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds.”

Want School Teacher Fields Football Empty India Library Meant To Be Classroom Cricket Toilets Cattle Grazing Playing Cricket

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.”

Film Courses Scene Empty Nervous Daily Life Bottles Typical Stairs Breakdown Nervous Breakdown Sherry

Author:Emma Thompson

“It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.”

Fun Empty Protest Stomach Empty Stomach

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.”

People Mind Strong Fear Common Laughing Weapons Empty Weak Coward Dread Ridicule Strong Mind Strong Minded

Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.”

Needs Feels May Feelings Night Guy Fun Enjoy Type Empty Vain Cynical Leaving Me One Night Sexually One Night Stand Type Of Guy

Author:Ben Affleck

“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.”

Mind Body Light Sports Clear Sky Ocean Highest Enlightenment Empty Filled Your Body Heat Enlightened Enlightenment And Love

Author:Morihei Ueshiba

“But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.”

Powerful Power Negative Empty

Book:The essence of Alan Watts

Source: The essence of Alan Watts

“People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.”

People Mines Eating Empty Hungry

Author:Ricky Williams

“Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson: Extracts from the Public Speeches of the Leader and Interpreter of American Democracy, with Masterpieces of Eloquence

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”

Life Inspirational Doe Motivational Today Christian Happiness Fear Worry Strength Inspirational Life Tomorrow Sorrow Future Letting Go Anxiety Empty Encouragement Christian Inspirational Christian Life Optimistic Live Life Emptiness Helpful Anxious Encouraging Christian Faith Being Strong Words Of Encouragement Stop Worrying Strength And Weakness God Life Strength Of Will Hiding Place Courage Strength Not Worrying Strong Inspirational No Worries Worry And Fear Power And Strength Inspirational Strength Worry Fear Life Changing Inspirational Strength Weakness Life And Inspirational Motivational Life Changing Stress And Anxiety Life Best Inspirational Encouraging Words Anxiety And Worry Stress And Worry Sympathy For A Friend Encouraging Life Motivational Life Spiritual Inspiration Overcome Trials Empty Hands Encouragement For Women Worry Less Encouragement For Friends Motivational Strength Overcoming Anxiety Strength And Hope Strength And Faith Worrying Too Much

Book:Jesus is Victor

Source: Jesus is Victor

“My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.”

Ifs Philosophy Life Is Dog Fashion Hair Empty Covered

Author:Elayne Boosler

“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”

Soul Opinion Empty Extremes Empty Souls

Author:William Butler Yeats

“Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.”

Empty Weak Legs Tongue Belly Glitter Swollen Sharp Tongue

Author:Mao Zedong

“The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.”

Should Littles America Space Forever Mom Scene Empty Court Pops Code Shops Gaps Dishes Singapore Specialists Empty Space Hawkers

Author:Anthony Bourdain