Best empty & hands Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”

Thinking Men Helping Hands Baby Husband Clothes Garden Empty Mere Bridges Servant Plato Daddy Microbes Embroidery Empty Words Parallelogram

Book:Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.”

Hands Order Greater Empty Tests Possession Remove

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.”

Mean Hands Seems Desire Passion Wealth Poverty Humility Honor Demand Empty Riches Vanity Display Crave Obscurity Furious

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.”

Needs Heart Soul Hands Mouths Empty Ecstasy Enchanted Unsatisfied Creating Beauty Empty Hands

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.”

Hands Water Dark Rich Car Window Empty Gold Eggs Cracks Bottles Now And Then Minerals Fling Dazzling Delhi Water Bottles Bangles Mineral Water

Book:The White Tiger

Source: The White Tiger

“He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.”

Knows Hands Games Winning Bears Empty Noise Nfl Jealous Eagles Tin Tin Cans

Author:Mike Ditka

“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!”

“I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.”

“The petition of an empty hand is dangerous.”

Hands Dangerous Danger Empty Petitions Empty Hands

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Even the most solid of things, and the most real, the best-loved and the well-known, are only hand shadows on the wall. Empty space and points of light.”

Wells Real Hands Light Space Known Wall Shadow Empty Well Known Empty Space Points Of Light

Book:Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break.”

World Should Hands White Break Empty Toys

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Always a good clue when you see a quarterback's arm go forward and forward and the hand empty, it's an incomplete pass.”

Hands Arms Empty Clue Incomplete Quarterback

Author:Mike Tirico

“I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.”

Should Matter Hands Principles Honor Weapons Empty Martial Arts Should I Karate Life Or Death Empty Hands

Author:Ed Parker

“The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.”

Source: That Hideous Strength

“The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is of love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your heart.”

Heart Hands Speak Prayer Lord Progress Humility Holy Empty Sacred Senses Savior

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“May your hand be full for always if only with another hand. May your heart be empty only long enough to give you cause to fill it up again with love. May your soul be lost by you only to be found by God.”

Ifs Giving Heart May Long Soul Enough Hands Found Lost Causes Empty Your Soul

Author:Rod McKuen

“Are you still thirsting? Christ gives the invitation not only to others but to you. He is the fountainhead. He has died and is risen. He offers the only way to eternal life, asking only that you admit your need, raise the empty hands of faith, and accept His gift. What is eternal life? It is meaning in life now as well as living one‚s life forever. Drink deep. Jesus offers a brimming cup.”

Way Needs Giving Wells Stills Hands Jesus Christ Accepting Forever Drink Offers Eternal Empty Died Asking Raises Cups Invitations Eternal Life Risen Meaning Life Fountainhead Empty Hands

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“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

“I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.”

Hands Liberty Empty Clean Fortune Retiring Consolation Public Service

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.”

Looks Hands Eye Found Black Dark Empty Green Moved Depth Leaving Fixed Pairs Blank Look At Me Snape Green Eyes Hand Holding

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Faris turned on him. "Why choose to wear black today, of all days? I know why I'm in black. Why are you? Mourning? He looked startled. "One does not wear mourning for a servant." You still don't understand, do you? He was not my servant." He regarded her anger, aghast. "What then? What else could he be? Her empty hands shook as she held them out to him. Her voice shook as she replied, "Glove to my hand." Slowly she closed her fists. "Everything.”

Knows Doe Stills Hands Today Black Voice Empty Servant Mourning Fists Gloves Empty Hands Aghast

Author:Caroline Stevermer

“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

“But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.”

Years Hands Night Dies Stars Born Hours Millions Sun Forever Week Sky Minutes Months Moon Rain Empty Notes Clouds Circles Scales Snow Clock Fades Swings Reborn Second Hand Sun Rise Revolving Rain And Snow

Book:Prelude

Source: Prelude

“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”

Ifs Giving Heart Kind May Made Sometimes Helping Hands Born Sweet Comfort Gay Laughter Empty Warm Princess Giver Sweet Things Little Princess

Book:A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.”

“To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.”

Writing Art Important Book Ideas Ends Hands Process Creativity Magic Materials Empty Gold Important Things Void Material Things

Author:Alan Moore

“If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.”

Ifs Feels Stills Hands Findings Empty Disappointment Foolishness Hopelessness Empty Hands

Author:Khalil Gibran

“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free.”

Want Ideas Hands Wanted Lying Feminism Flower Empty No Idea Classic Being A Woman Peacefulness Daze

Book:Ariel

Source: Ariel

“Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of her mouth. He swallowed these, and drank again. Consumed, she had no choice but to see how empty he was inside, and how, sip by sip, she filled him.”

Hands Pain Faces Choices Doubt Mouths Empty Filled Tongue Roof Consumed Drank

Book:Second Glance: A Novel

Source: Second Glance: A Novel

“What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.”

“I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects, of a love that never withdrew. It was not the feeling of completeness that I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”

Feelings Hands Eye Night Universe Four Needed Moon Rain Empty Mirrors Green Clock Insects Completeness Descending Green Eyes

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“The Chancellor looked down at the empty table for a minute. Then he shrugged, looked up, and gave a surprisingly jaunty smile. "All in favor of admitting first-term Kvothe's reckless use of sympathy as proof of mastery of basic principles of sympathy vote by show of hands.”

Firsts Use Shows Hands Term Principles Minutes Empty Vote Tables Proof Favors Mastery Reckless Admitting Basic Principles Kvothe

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and kissed me on the mouth and began to cry and ran back into the house, leaving the doorway empty [...] I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again. (p. 262)”

Feelings Hands Remember House Lost Left Saws Written Doors Cry Mouths Empty Leaving Very Good Disappear Ran Pie Rolling Doorways Aprons

Book:Stories and Early Novels

Source: Stories and Early Novels

“God gives where he finds empty hands.”

Giving Hands Empty Empty Hands

Author:Saint Augustine

“It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one of my hands. His fingers feel hot, fever-hot, and pounding with his heartbeats. He turns my hand palm-up saying, 'No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.' He sets the blue pill on my palm, saying, 'Do that one wrong thing- and you'll be dead for the rest of your life.”

“I had risked everything, and I had nothing to show for it but my open hand, lying empty and palm up toward the ceiling.”

Shows Hands Lying Empty Palms Ceilings

Book:Linger

Source: Linger

“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free—— The peacefulness is so big it dazes you, And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets. It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.”

Want Ideas Hands Bigs Wanted Lying Asks Names Imagine Flower Mouths Empty No Idea Communion Tag Peacefulness Tablets Trinkets Daze

Author:Sylvia Plath

“When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.”

World Want Persons Doe Made Whole Hands Dies Knowing Mines Baby Lessons Empty Fingers Whole World Not Knowing Fists Old Person

Book:Have a Little Faith: A True Story

Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story

“When Rae got back, she spread her empty hands wide and said "Okay, guess where I hid it." She even turned around for me, but I couldn't see a bulge big enough to hide a flashlight. With a grin, she reached down the front of her shirt into the middle of her bra, and pulled out a flashlight with flourish. I laughed. "Cleavage is great," she said. "Like an extra pocket.”

Said Enough Hands Bigs Middle Fronts Empty Okay Spread Wide Shirts Extras Pockets Laughed Bras Flashlights Cleavage Empty Hands

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.”

Heart Hands Empty Meat Shells Coconuts

Book:The Space Between Us: A Novel

Source: The Space Between Us: A Novel

“It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.”

World Should Heart Children Littles Hands Faces Lonely Empty Pity Pleasant Sunshine Pleasant Things Empty Hands

Book:Little Men

Source: Little Men

“And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hands, staring down at his enemy's shell.”

Two Body Hands Eye Faces White Enemy Arms Skills Empty Caught Staring Curse Toms Shells Rolling Seekers Mundane Pupils Riddle Scarlet Wands Vacant Finality Slits Unknowing

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.”

Matter Hands Wanted Waiting Kissing Mouths Empty Skins Necks Over It Drag Cheeks

Book:Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

Source: Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger

“The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?”

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now.”

Giving Heart Hands My Heart Empty Little Women Empty Hands

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“The life I walk binds my hands it makes me take things that I don’t understand I walk this dark world unknowing of what they hold true, forgetting the me I once knew, until you. The life I walk eternally was all I knew nothing more held me here to this earth until you. I feel the pain of every heart I take I feel the desire to replace all that I have grown to hate Darkness holds me close but the light still draws my empty soul The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.”

World Feels Heart Stills Soul Hands Light Earth Pain Used Desire Hate Dark Walks Forget Darkness Draws Empty Holes Emptiness Call Me Hold Me Because Of You Unknowing Dark World Empty Souls

Author:Abbi Glines

“We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbidden”

Men World Doe Hands Age Past Artist Grows Rich Progress Feet Poet Men And Women Empty Endless Evolve Preserves Doomed Repetition Masterpiece Forbidden Static Chained Protocol Hands And Feet

Author:Catherine Fisher

“She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?" "In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.”

Way Said Hands Water Compassion Empty Rage Warrior Bowls

Book:Range of Ghosts

Source: Range of Ghosts

“"I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.”

Hands Air Married Empty Rings Scar Remarks Distinctive

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I flicked on the light beside my bed, waiting for my breathing to slow, veins full of adrenaline from the realistic dream. A new dream, but in essence so much the same as the many others that had plagued me in the past months. No, not a dream. Surely a memory. I could still feel the heat of Jared's lips on mine. My hands reached out without my permission, searching across the rumpled sheets, looking for something they didn't find. My heart ached when they gave up, falling to the bed limp and empty.”

Feels Heart Stills Dream Hands Light Past Fall Waiting Memories Mines Months My Heart Bed Empty Essence Lips Breathing Heat Realistic Permission Sheets Veins Gave Up Adrenaline

Author:Stephenie Meyer

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