Best empty & able Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Recognize that it is not really possible to steadily help others when we ourselves are not in good physical, mental, or emotional state. We may be able to carry on for a while, but sooner or later we end up feeling depleted, discouraged, or weak. We cannot keep on giving when we are running on an empty tank. We need to be solid.”

Needs Giving May Ends States Helping Feelings Motivational Running Able Emotional Empty Weak Helping Others Sooner Or Later Discouraged Tanks

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.”

Mind Bigs Able Fighting Loses Accepting Empty Calm Fighter Mma Big Things

Author:Lyoto Machida

“I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I'm trying to please everybody, and ya just can't do that ... at least I can't.”

People Way Feels Trying I Can Reality Seems Able Knowing Please My Friends Commitment Empty Exciting Come Up Substance Expecting Family And Friends Frustrating Airports Expecting Something

Author:Tim Allen

“I consider theater, this is a vacation for me from LA, I sort of view this as I get to have this vacation and during my vacation I get to work on acting. It's like an acting class. And if I go too long without doing a play, I just feel empty. Like approaching a role, I feel like the pool is very shallow, like I'm drawn from it. So I need to come back and do a play, fortunately I've been able to, every couple of years.”

Ifs Needs Feels Years Long Play Able Views Acting Class Roles Couple Empty Theater Pool Vacation Shallow Acting Classes

Author:Alan Tudyk

“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!”

“It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: "No room for your ladyship; pass on.”

Able Rooms Brain Doors Empty Vices Corners

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.”

Knows Want Looks Shows Able Struggle Fame Empty Bluster

Author:Edgar Guest

“You don't need great actors to do a 3D picture. All of this condescending stuff that they put out? "Oh, we will always need actors." Bullshit! They are able to take anybody and put some markers on them, and have them walk through an empty room. Then they paint in the background.”

Needs Able Actors Stuff Walks Rooms Empty Paint Backgrounds Bullshit Great Actors Markers Condescending Empty Rooms

Author:William Friedkin

“What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?”

Ifs Heart Kind Doe Able Order Regret Empty Beer

Book:Casa Rossa

Source: Casa Rossa

“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.”

I Can Bigs Government Able Law Given Poor Research Empty Institutions University Bags Professors Permission Kenya Monsanto

Author:Wangari Maathai

“When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.”

Able Areas Empty Muhammad

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

“For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.”

“You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.”

Thinking Would Be Able School Empty Medical Medical School Stethoscope

Book:The Tenth Circle: A Novel

Source: The Tenth Circle: A Novel

“Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.”

Ifs Men Done Able Purpose Empty Intelligent Regard Granted Gentleman Void Sole Deliberate Pouring Intelligent Man

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not interested in marrying where I do not love." I spoke in a jesting voice. "And of all the women in the eight provinces, you have not been able to find one you could love?" Now he looked at me again, and his face was completely serious. "That's the problem," he said. "There is one.”

Way Said Different Problem Able Faces Father Voice Serious Empty Glasses Eight Spokes Not Interested Provinces Marrying

Author:Sharon Shinn

“Outside of Christ, I am only a sinner, but in Christ, I am saved. Outside of Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full. Outside of Christ, I am weak; in Christ, I am strong. Outside of Christ, I cannot; in Christ, I am more than able. Outside of Christ, I have been defeated; in Christ, I am already victorious. How meaningful are the words, "in Christ."”

Source: Secrets to Spiritual Power: From the Writings of Watchman Nee

“Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas of myself, of man be changed? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? To empty myself even of my concept of emptiness?”

Men Giving Ideas Able Spirit Order Changed Willing Hero Giving Up Concepts Empty Desert Emptiness Heroic

Book:Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person

Source: Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person

“Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty.”

Ifs Would Be Able Christian Lying Force Half Fire Months Ten Six Empty Police Prison Stealing Abortion Commandments Six Months Divorced Ten Commandments Half Empty Police Force

Author:John Hagee

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