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“No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it -- as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?”

Ifs Needs Should Next Space Minutes Ten Empty Leaving Breathe Spares Jam

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“And, of course, afterwards -- one always hears these things afterwards, so much better if one heard them before -- we found out that dozens of empty brandy bottles were taken out of the house every week!”

Ifs Courses Found House Taken Heard Week Empty Bottles Dozen Brandy

Book:Remembered Death

Source: Remembered Death

“If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.”

Ifs Thinking May Enough Speak Brain Talking Too Much Empty Tongue Thee

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“one way to keep people close to you is by not giving them enough. ... with people who give a lot of themselves, you sometimes lean back - but with people who give little you often lean forward, as if they're a spigot in the desert and you're the empty cup. It is the tropism of deprivation: We lean toward those who do not give.”

People Ifs Way Giving Littles Sometimes Enough Personality Empty Cups One Way Desert Deprivation Empty Cup

Author:Peggy Noonan

“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.”

“I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond angelic messengers, empty tombs, and ghostlike apparitions, I could not say yes to Easter.”

Ifs Has Beens Moving Religion Empty If I Could Legends Easter Tombs Messengers Angelic Apparitions

Book:Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity

Source: Resurrection: myth or reality? : a bishop's search for the origins of Christianity

“When you have an empty mind, you are prepared for the next thing that happens. It's like to be part of a spiritual practice for me simply means that you are there now. Not waiting for the next moment, or not living in the moment before, but you're there now. And it's there now which can only be really breathed and lived if the mind is empty enough to receive it.”

Ifs Mind Mean Enough Moments Happens Spiritual Next Waiting Practice Empty Prepared Live In The Moment Spiritual Practice Empty Mind

Author:George Ogilvie

“Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.”

Ifs Way Spirit My Own Empty Music And Lyrics

Author:Joan Jett

“I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.”

Ifs Knows Want Wanted Happiness Empty Reviews

Author:Rita Hayworth

“If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.”

Ifs I Can Universe Imagine Empty Bigger Stranger Bladder

Book:Old Man's War Boxed Set I

Source: Old Man's War Boxed Set I

“If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.”

Ifs Poetry Voice Taken Essentials Empty Bravery Surprise Willingness

Author:Jorie Graham

“I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty in 50 years. Maybe somebody else's name is there. But you can't leave it empty.”

Ifs Thinking Years Happens Asks Names Stupid Empty Ask Me Rectify

Author:Lance Armstrong

“You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief. ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.”

Ifs Grief Week Rocks Empty Tiny Over You Handful Me Alone Jars Pebbles Alone Time

Book:Lovely in Her Bones

Source: Lovely in Her Bones

“Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Wells Bigs Purpose Source Moon Empty Heavy Fuel What If Sole Rockets

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.”

Ifs Ends Would Be Desire Process Goes On Empty Rate Sake Chiefs Vain Infinity If Then

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.”

“At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Book Whole Body Light Wanted Stars Space Rooms Painting Hair Bed Moon Window Empty Lays Rounds Dancer Astronaut Helmet Empty Space Milky Way Points Of Light Bed Time

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.”

“John Kerry says that he wants to debate President Bush once a month until the election. This could be a risky move for Senator Kerry. If Bush doesn't show up for the debates, John Kerry may end up debating an empty chair. And that could be pretty much a toss up as to which one has the better personality.”

Ifs Want May Ends Shows Moving President Months Personality Empty Election Debate Chairs Senators President Bush Better Person Toss John Kerry

Author:Jay Leno

“Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.”

Ifs Mind Heart Song Waiting Empty Longing Rings Endless Burning Impulse Serving Overwhelming Daring Bells Clinging Pilgrimage Shrines Audacious Perishing

Book:Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

“Who am I?” “What is the purpose of my life?” These questions arise spontaneously throughout our lives, either unbidden or through conscious intent. Anyone who wishes to live an authentic life must answer these questions, regardless of whether they believe in the existence of the soul or practice a religion. If these queries remain unanswered, life will more than likely remain superficial and empty, in spite of any material abundance. If you wish to make the soul's journey, then I suggest you ask yourself these questions relentlessly and ruthlessly, and listen carefully.”

Ifs Believe Soul Purpose Asks Wish Answers Existence Practice Our Lives Journey Materials Conscious Empty Arise Abundance Spite Superficial Unanswered Authentic Life Queries

Author:Ilchi Lee

“The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.”

Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings

“The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything.”

Ifs World Made Ends Matter Whole Moving Space Materials Huge Source Empty Appearance Speed Atoms Lightning Molecules Empty Space Material World

Author:Deepak Chopra

“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.”

Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

“If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.”

Ifs Willing Mouths Empty Reputation Cowardice Bubbles Cannons

Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”

Ifs Humans May Art Book Enough Lines Rooms Company Empty Library Busy Crowds Ease Human Life Leisure Art And Science

Author:William Hazlitt

“If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.”

Ifs Men Should Sin Empty Bolts Jupiter

Author:Ovid

“In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .”

Ifs Way Wells Existence Our Lives Empty Emptiness Another Way Elevating Non Existence

Author:Florida Scott-Maxwell

“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.”

“I want to be really special, I want to be really good. It's not enough to be famous for me. Famous is empty so quickly, it's not what people think it is. It's wonderful, but if you're famous and you feel that you're an artist inside and everyone thinks you're just a celebrity, it's really painful.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Feels Enough Artist Wonderful Special Empty Painful

Author:Cher

“Success is empty if you arrive at the finish line alone.”

Ifs Lines Empty Finish Line

Book:Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

Source: Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time

“But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.”

Ifs May Said Philosophy Empty Blind

Author:A.J. Ayer

“I have discovered that you can go from nowhere to somewhere, from nothing to something, from a nobody to a somebody, from an empty person to a fulfilled one, if you have faith in God.”

Ifs Persons Empty Have Faith Faith In God Fulfilled Have Faith In God

Author:Robert H. Schuller

“Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consulted the heavens for guidance in this effort, the city fathers of New York consulted the banks.”

Ifs Father Heaven Effort Cities Plans Land New York Empty Towns Guidance Grids

Author:Richard Sennett

“I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life.”

Ifs Knows Want Moments Night Grief Company Sweet Despair Empty Bones Get Up Weary Bruised Company You Keep

Author:Jon Blais

“If you say you have an empty mind and you don't have an empty mind, you only know later that you have an empty mind. Because if you say you have empty mind, you don't have empty mind, because you're already thinking about it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Empty Empty Mind

Author:Hamid Drake

“I can speak for every guy in this room here tonight. Guys, if you could blow yourselves, ladies, you'd be in this room alone right now. Watching an empty stage.”

Ifs I Can Humor Funny Guy Speak Rooms Stage Right Now Empty Blow Tonight Empty Stage

Author:Bill Hicks

“What President of the Airline is doing is, he's urging everyone to give up their frequent flyer miles for sick kids... But as I was reading this, there were two empty seats next to me. Why can't sick kids sit there? If they're so concerned with sick kids, shouldn't they have like a pen of sick kids next to the gate?”

Ifs Giving Two Humor Kids Funny Reading Next President Giving Up Concerned Empty Sick Miles Seats Gates Pens Airline Flyers Empty Seats Sick Kids

Author:David Cross

“My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.”

Ifs Years Turns House Left Clear Dangerous Wall Empty Satisfaction Horrible Latter Grandmother Suspicion Electricity My Grandmother Turn Off Bulbs Dripping Off The Wall Leakage

Author:James Thurber

“... It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself, and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”

Ifs Knows Want Moments Fall Interest Company Empty Company You Keep

Author:Oriah Dreamer

“If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. If you can empty your own boat crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you, no one will seek to harm you. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty.”

Ifs Men World Perfect Clear He Man Rivers Empty Angry Harm Boat Curse Scream Crossings Steers Perfect Man Collide Bad Temper

Author:Zhuangzi

“There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.”

“If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty”

Ifs Giving Share Empty

Author:Elvis Presley

“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

“Keep belly lightly loaded, if mind would wisdom see;For bodies crammed to bursting, make empty souls to be.”

Ifs Mind Soul Body Empty Belly Loaded Bursting Empty Souls

Author:Saadi

“But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.”

Ifs World Feels Stills Matter Memories One Thing Acceptance Birth Empty Unconditional Love Denied Unconditional Being Loved Unqualified

Author:Michael Jackson

“I think minimalism is something I just got attracted to just in general because I like the empty space, if you think about it, like there's a lot of empty space. So there are sounds there, there are chords, like coordinates, to sort of tell you where the emotion is going, but then it leaves so much room for the voice to do other things.”

Ifs Thinking Sound Voice Space Rooms Emotion Empty Chords Minimalism Empty Space Coordinates

Author:Pharrell Williams

“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

“The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're just eating empty calories.”

Ifs Country Worst Essentials Eating Empty Diets Calories Ratios Obese

Author:Bruce Ames

“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

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