Best empty & glasses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism”

Inspirational Choices Half Seeing Empty Glasses Positivity Optimistic Pessimism Righteous Lenses Half Full Half Empty

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.”

Language Half Wise Empty Glasses Half Empty

Book:Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

Source: Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets

“I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.”

Half Worry Empty Optimism Glasses Half Full Half Empty

Book:Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance

Source: Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance

“Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.”

Doe Matter Care Age Answers Half Issues Empty Glasses Realism Thirst Who Cares Quench Half Full Half Empty

Author:Larry Winget

“I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.”

Funny Sides Dark Half Cutting Empty Lips Glasses Teeth Sarcastic Pessimism Dark Side Cracked Half Empty

Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world – touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.”

World Walking Empty Glasses Touching Tapping

Author:Jenny Downham

“Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?”

Source: Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light

“Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.”

Ifs Doe Differences Half Hell Drink Empty Glasses Damn Half Full Half Empty

Book:Angels Fall

Source: Angels Fall

“Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.”

Want Half Empty Glasses Aliens Toxic Crawling Parasites Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full Pancreas

Author:James Alan Gardner

“If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.”

“Women are more accommodating. If a woman drinks the last glass of apple juice in the refrigerator, she'll make more apple juice. If a man drinks the last glass of apple juice, he'll just put back the empty container.”

Ifs Men Lasts Drink Empty Glasses Apples Juice Refrigerators Containers

Author:Rita Rudner

“Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.”

Self Secret Behinds Self Love Empty Blind Glasses Vanity Transparent Lifting Prodigals Empty Heads

Author:Horace

“I never see the glass half empty because I drink out the bottle”

Half Drink Empty Glasses Bottles Half Empty

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.”

Looks Remember Given Half Empty Glasses Each Day Half Full Half Empty Live Each Day Gifts Of Life Glass Half Full

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!”

Looks Persons Actors Half Negative Empty Glasses Thinker Hallelujah Half Full Half Empty Positive Thinker

Author:Maya Angelou

“People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.”

People World Half Standing Empty Glasses Refuse Moderation Dregs

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.”

People World Looks Perfect Half Empty Glasses Half Full Half Empty Nobody's Perfect

Author:Morris Chestnut

“No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem. Christians have no carefully embalmed body enclosed in a glass case to worship. Thank God, we have an empty tomb. The glorious fact that the empty tomb proclaims to us is that life for us does not stop when death comes. Death is not a wall, but a door.”

Doe Has Beens Facts Body Christian Jesus Cases Doors Wall Worship News Empty Glasses Glorious Print Thank God Tombs Jerusalem Tabloids Nazareth

Author:Peter Marshall

“If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.”

Ifs Character Water Empty Glasses

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass”

Ifs Persons Half Havens Type Empty Glasses Half Empty

Author:Richard Branson

“I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"”

Half Empty Glasses Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full

Author:Damon Lindelof

“A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.”

Men Looks Empty Glasses Philosopher

Author:Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

“I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!”

Sitting Empty Glasses Bars

Author:Donald Glover

“I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find what I'm looking for outside of myself. It doesn't exist out there. Maybe it's only in here, inside my head. But my head is glass and my eyes have stopped being cameras, the tape has run out and nobody's words can touch me.”

I Can Eye Running Form Empty Cameras Glasses Stranger Emptiness Copies Tape Carbon Futility Touch Me

Author:David Wojnarowicz

“The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission”

Needs Half Easier Empty Glasses Permission Half Full Half Empty

Author:Grace Hopper

“To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.”

Ifs Needs Wells Bigs Half Design Emotional Empty Treats Environmental Glasses Customers Aesthetic Engineers Optimist Doing Good Pessimist Standpoint Good Design Half Full Half Empty

Author:Yves Behar

“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

“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

“Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.”

Empty Tables Glasses Meals Pleasant Bottles Ritual Clutter Aftermath Lingering Crumbs Gogol

Book:The Namesake: A Novel

Source: The Namesake: A Novel

“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.”

People Needs Bigs Half Perspective Empty Optimism Glasses Pessimism Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full

Author:George Carlin

“I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.”

Want Loses Emotion Ought Taste Empty Wine Drinking Dear Glasses Royalty Toasts

Book:The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.”

Thinking Heart Stills Shows Faces Fall Wish Pieces Broken Hundred Empty Glasses Breasts Adore Rags Broken Glass

Book:The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

Source: The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

“Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)”

People Mean Said Stills Lasts House President White Pay Attention Half Drink Empty Thirds Glasses Dinner White House President Bush Liquid Half Empty

Author:Stephen Colbert

“You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.”

Thinking Said Two Important Sometimes Together Beautiful Dies Three Courses Behinds Like You Ordinary Empty Rose Glasses Screens Butterfly Caterpillars You Re Beautiful Passerby

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.”

Looks Children Stills Body Hands Light Eye Faces Moving Animal Hair Pure Empty Mirrors Glasses Bones Shoulders Cups Hips Pale Cages Skulls Thighs Seventeen Ribs Bruised Rib Cage

Book:The Hanged Man

Source: The Hanged Man

“McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if they still have it. How many times I've felt that McKenna was still here, and the empty space beside me was alive with his presence." She closed her eyes and leaned forward until her forehead and the tip of her nose touched the cool glass. "I love him beyond reason," she whispered. "He's a stranger to me now, and yet he is still so familiar. I can't imagine a sweeter agony, having him so close.”

People Ifs Feels Stills I Can Sometimes Matter Reason Eye Lost Felt Space Alive Imagine Empty Glasses Stranger Familiar Noses Touched Agony Her Eyes Limbs Foreheads I Love Him Empty Space

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.”

Problem Half Empty Filled Glasses Milk Half Empty

Author:Jodi Picoult

“When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.”

People Ifs Half Wonder Empty Tables Filled Glasses Beer Half Empty Good Beer

Book:The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.”

Half Empty Glasses Bother Half Empty

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Done Views Half Middle Broken Empty Glasses Following Gray Shade Half Empty

Author:Sarah Dessen

“...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.”

Ifs Way Wells May Feelings Half Empty Glasses Half Empty

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.”

Inspirational Said Problem Water Half One Day Empty Philosophical Glasses Drank Half Full Half Empty

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.”

Red Empty Wine Bottom Glasses Spots Wine Glass

Book:Willful Creatures

Source: Willful Creatures

“This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.”

Should Whole Half Empty Glasses Spills Devastated Half Empty Hopes Up

Book:Something Borrowed: A Novel

Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel

“Something like this will test you like nothing else," Mac said. "You're going to find out who you are, Harry. You're going to find out which principles you'll stand by to your death--and which lines you'll cross." He took my empty glass away and said, "You're heading into the badlands. It'll be easy to get lost.”

Said Lost Easy Lines Principles Crosses Empty Tests Who You Are Glasses Headings Macs Easy To Get Dresden Harry Dresden

Book:Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.”

Would Be Father Left Water Months Needed Empty Glasses Bars Piano Canada Drank Dwarfs

Book:The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?”

People Thinking World Looks Has Beens Said Two Truth Half Food Type Empty Bigger Glasses Excuse Beer Discworld Excuse Me Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full Pinching

Author:Terry Pratchett

“She was a level-headed woman who saw the glass as neither half empty nor half full, but rather a glass with something in it and room to pour in more.”

Levels Rooms Half Saws Empty Glasses Half Full Half Empty Level Headed

Book:Apple Turnover Murder Bundle with Key Lime Pie Murder, Cherry Cheesecake Murder, and Lemon Meringue Pie Murder

Source: Apple Turnover Murder Bundle with Key Lime Pie Murder, Cherry Cheesecake Murder, and Lemon Meringue Pie Murder

“Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic overtones, soul orgies, wailings among the shadows, weird gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies ... this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Look at them, all the sad wraiths of sad mad men and passionate rebels — your Schopenhauers, your Strindbergs, your Tolstois and Nietzsches. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.”

Book Light Stuff Forget Fantasy Empty Glasses Mysticism Shelves Psychics Veils Tissues Hallucinations Gnosticism Vapor Bogs Subjectivism

Author:Jack London

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