Best empty & half 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

“Always hold your sales meetings in rooms too small for the audience, even if it means holding them in the WC. 'Standing room only' creates an atmosphere of success, as in theatres and restaurants, while a half-empty auditorium smells of failure.”

Ifs Mean Rooms Half Audience Standing Empty Meetings Smell Theatre Atmosphere Restaurants Half Empty Auditoriums

Author:David Ogilvy

“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.”

“This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty”

Feelings Half Empty Surprising Half Empty

Author:Ravi Shastri

“people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big”

People Bigs Church Half Empty Half Empty

Author:Sean Lock

“I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty.”

Thinking Looks Stuff Half Empty Half Full Half Empty

Author:Pauly Shore

“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

“Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.”

Firsts Done Poor Half Drink Empty Generosity Moderation Jars Half Empty Dregs

Author:Hesiod

“I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.”

“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

“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

“Younger and younger, our children are seeing the sippy-cup as half empty.”

Children Half Seeing Empty Our Children Cups Half Empty

Author:Maria Bamford

“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 remember that my sisters gave me this beautiful, like, empty book for Christmas. And I would draw all these beautiful women. Most of the time it was mermaids and a Minotaur: half human, half animal. I used to be obsessed with Minotaurs when I was a child.”

Humans Children Book Beautiful Remember Used Animal Half Draws Empty Used To Be Obsessed My Sister Beautiful Women Mermaid Minotaur

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“Of course, Texas is so huge it really is empty places; people can easily drive an hour and a half to work every day, so even if they're actually living in the suburbs, it sure feels as if they're in a remote location.”

People Ifs Feels Courses Hours Half Huge Empty Texas Location Suburbs Empty Places Actually Living

Author:Gail Collins

“I have these thoughts. I think "What if the show doesn't sell well? What if it's a half-empty room?" These are the paranoia thoughts that go through my head on a day-by-day basis.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Shows Rooms Half Empty Bases Sells What If Paranoia Half Empty Empty Rooms

Author:Ladyhawke

“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

“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

“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

“We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.”

Feels Kind Long Hard Wanted Lasts Waiting Enjoy Half Taste Window Empty Drunk Beer Awake Over You Swimming Tasty Go Hard

Author:Ken Kesey

“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

“On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.”

Knows Heart Said Dream Faces Realizing Dark White Common Half Needed Empty Victim Corners Expected Ice Occasions Deep Down Numb Burnt Out

Author:Dean Koontz

“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

“You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity”

Thinking Knows Looks Eye Faces Fall Girl Half Subjects Changed Mets Empty Sexy Clever His Eyes Desperate Sincerity Odds Cheerful Mockery You Changed

Book:The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“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

“There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library ought to be composed half of books we have read and that have really counted for us, and half of books we propose to read and presume will come to count—leaving a section of empty shelves for surprises and occasional discoveries”

Book Half Ought Discovery Ideals Empty Surprise Leaving Library Shelves Sections Occasional Propose

Author:Italo Calvino

“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

“Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.”

Moving Loss Space Decision Half Laughing Middle Conscious Empty Range Spite Divides Bubbles Empty Space Before And After Laughs And Smiles

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes

“Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.”

“Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.”

Life Form Suffering Half Ignorance Empty Lowest Humiliation Half Full

Book:Silence

Source: Silence

“This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.”

Enough Stuff Half Too Much Empty Half Full Half Empty

Book:Then Again

Source: Then Again

“You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.”

Thinking Said Half Type Empty Grateful Glasses Half Full Half Empty

Book:Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

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