Best empty & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra souls because we started out with less, and that we could make gates because of our innately human sense of home. But my home was here. How on earth was I supposed to find another one?The gate needs to be opened and closed before dawn, Cresseda said, a hint of strain flowing through her voice.YES. THANKS FOR THAT. VERY HELPFUL RIGHT NOW.”

Way Needs Humans Said Soul Home Eye Earth Voice Rooms Right Now Empty Thanks Dawn Extras Helpful Gates Strain Hints

Author:Kiersten White

“There is only so much energy available to us in life. Spending it on solving problems is one possible way of living your life, but this may leave you empty - hearted; spending it on what excites you is a lot more fulfilling and fun - and effortless; and usually, the previously experienced problems vanish on their own. We don't have to battle against the darkness when all we need to do is turn on the light.”

Way Life Needs May Problem Light Turns Energy Fun Darkness Battle Empty Available Spending Happy Life Problem Solving Fulfilling Live Your Life Hearted Turn-on Effortless

Author:Andreas Moritz

“The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises. This prayer service will be along those lines. I'm not saying that anyone involved in the redefinition of marriage is possessed by the devil, which, if that were the case, would require the remedy of a "Major Exorcism," but all of us are certainly subject to the devil's evil influences and in need of protection and deliverance from evil.”

“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

“If someone breaks into your home when you're there - that is, they don't wait to be sure that the house is empty - it's a bad situation. Honor doesn't come into it at all. Anything you need to do to survive at that point becomes A-OK.”

Ifs Needs Home House Waiting Situation Break Honor Empty Bad Situations

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“If I was talking to someone face-to-face I would always be clear, but with something like Snapchat, you need to keep the flirty banter going;otherwise you'll be staring at an empty red arrow, cringing.”

Ifs Needs Faces Talking Clear Red Empty Staring Arrows Face To Face Banter Flirty Talking To Someone Snapchat

Author:Holly Carpenter

“American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.”

Ifs Needs Humans Grows Causes Realizing Pleasure Brain Comfortable Shots Empty Fundamentals Terror Satisfaction Urges Housewife Full Potential Nameless Schizophrenic Clinicals

Book:The Feminine Mystique

Source: The Feminine Mystique

“Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.”

Ifs Needs Mind Artist Concepts Empty Sells Satisfied Worried Bother Guarantees Canvas Collectors Guarantees That Inscriptions Empty Canvas

Author:Semir Zeki

“When a person spends his entire day with no concern but Allah alone, Allah will take care of all his needs and take care of all that is worrying him; He will empty his heart so that it will be filled only with love for Him.”

Needs Heart Persons Care Worry Concern Empty Filled Take Care Muslim

Author:Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

“It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.”

Ifs Knows Needs Mind Heart May Soul Numbers Objects Fool Highest Empty Perceive Exterior Great Souls

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“My biggest fear is expending the best and most exciting energy in sketches, no matter how quickly executed. I often need to empty the rubbish bin several times before regaining the fresh quality of the initial exploratory sketches.”

Needs Matter Energy Quality Empty Exciting Exploration Initials Rubbish Biggest Fear

Author:Catherine Stock

“Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.”

Knows Needs Looks Book Bigs Space Imagine Wall Pages Empty Mirrors Boxes Over You Thick Elegant

Author:Carter Ratcliff

“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

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.”

Needs Stills Humor Jobs Order House Pay Car Normal Clothes Empty Driving Traffic Getting Dressed

Author:Ellen Goodman

“I've always loved empty stadiums, none more than this one. It feels alive when it's packed and now it looks like it's resting, waiting for next week. This building has seen a lot of things. Billy Cannon's punt return, a crowd so loud it registered on the Richter Scale up the street at the geology department. It's as if all that history leaves Tiger Stadium tired and so it needs to recharge until it's time to wake and do it again.”

Ifs Needs Feels Looks Next Waiting Alive Week Streets Building Return Empty Tired Crowds Scales Loud Department Tigers Stadiums Geology Next Week Cannons Lsu Tiger Stadium

Author:Wright Thompson

“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

“Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.”

Way Needs Looks May Children Spirit Effort Sacrifice Personality Development Adults Empty Filled Constant Guides Convinced Look Up Helpless Lacking Behalf Zeal

Author:Maria Montessori

“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

“What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.”

Needs Empty

Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen

“My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.”

Needs Writing Areas Empty Surround Nests Suspension

Book:Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories

Source: Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories

“Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)”

Thinking Men Needs Trying Two Reason Play Goal Wealth Roles Hair Ambition Empty Essence Oneself Riches Pursuit Emptiness Latter Mask Scent Trails Live It Up

Author:African Spir

“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

“Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.”

Needs Beautiful House Empty Dresses Constant Shining Usage Brass Beautiful Dress

Author:Ovid

“But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are with one another . . . the way they talk about books and authors and themselves. Not just their problems, but their passions too. The way they form a little society and discuss whatever matters to them. Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.”

Thinking Way Needs Littles Made Book Matter Problem Light Form Passion Differences Fire Written Students Empty Filled Journal Filled In

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.”

Needs Book Light Fire Written Empty Filled Journal Filled In

Book:Belzhar

Source: Belzhar

“When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.”

Men Needs Heart Joy Night Grows Fear Mystery Empty Aging Length Fright Empty Heart

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“Lord, You have told me who You are, You have in mercy revealed Yourself to me, I know You to be that blessed 'gift of God' which alone can save and satisfy my soul. The depth and compass of heavenly love are manifested in You, and You have shown me, not my need only, but the sufficiency of Your grace and power to meet it. I am an empty sinner, You are a full Christ!”

Knows Needs Soul Christ Lord Grace Empty Mercy Blessed Who You Are Depth My Soul Sinner Heavenly Compass Gift From God Sufficiency Heavenly Love

Author:Susannah Spurgeon

“I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.”

“What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.”

People Knows Needs Lost Skills Direct Empty Paint Lists Variety Chairs Apartment Clue Doing You Maestro

Author:Tony Gilroy

“A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?”

Needs Children Flower Gratitude Empty Notes Boxes Bunch Golden Apples Bags Bottles Pot Diamond Scent Vans Jam Pebbles Homemade Bouquets Seedlings

Author:Pam Brown

“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

“I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.”

Needs Feels Mind Ideas Numbers Right Now Empty Core Vague Kernel Vague Ideas

Author:Alan Lightman

“The spirit of my home is entirely bound up in a quality of space. I have only the objects I need and nothing more. Empty space in which to think and relax is both stimulating and calming.”

Thinking Needs Home Spirit Space Quality Objects Empty Bounds Relax Calming Empty Space

Author:John Pawson

“I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.”

“We need to pray for our nation like never before, and then put legs to our prayers and preach the gospel to a sin-loving and Hell-bound world. To pray for America and at the same time ignore that command to preach the gospel to every creature, is nothing but empty hypocrisy. It is to honor God with our lips and have cold hearts that are far from Him. May He give us a love that moves us from the pews into the streets, and from our homes into our universities. God save us from the cozy comfort of lukewarm contemporary Christianity.”

“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

“The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Philosophy, religion, patriotism, all are empty idols. The only meaning in our lives is what we each bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be out master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. There are no mothers or fathers for grown-ups, only sisters and brothers.”

Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS

“The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?”

“It's not that hard to climb a pole. All you need are powerful thighs and an empty soul.”

Needs Soul Hard Powerful Empty Climbs Thighs Empty Souls

Author:Daniel Tosh

“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

“The further he raided, the closer he came to the other rooms. Those unused, cobwebbed chambers of her heart. Would he dare to venture there? She doubted. Jumping off a cliff was a flashy sort of courage, but a man would need true strength and valor to break through those padlocked doors. There were dark, uncharted spaces within her that had been built to house love, and even she was afraid to explore them. Terrified to learn just how vast and how achingly empty they truly were.”

“I don't think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not. You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it's empty.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Should Shows Care Guy Crazy Empty Should Have West China Museums Old Guys

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Comedians a lot of times we're on the road, we're by our self. We come home to New York to our empty one-bedroom apartment, you know, and we need a place to go where you see a bunch of other miserable people sit around and eat a corned beef sandwich.”

People Knows Needs Self Home New York Empty Bunch Miserable Comedian Coming Home Apartment Bedroom Sandwiches Beef Places To Go Miserable People

Author:Jeff Ross

“The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious avoidance of dealing with what the reality of being a man might be outside of empty concepts from ancient history.”

Men Needs Has Beens Reality Might Deals Economy Conscious Concepts Empty Response Ancient Stupidity Rage Avoidance Ancient History Changing Everything

Author:Stephen Marche

“My view on well-being and fulfillment comes from Maslow and positive psychology, and that is that you're satisfying three sets of needs. First need is physiological and safety needs: Got to satisfy those first. And the second is you got to satisfy your community needs because we're social animals, and if we don't have that, we're empty and we don't have people to share knowledge and bounce things off of, and challenge ourselves. And then the third is the idea is to find a calling.”

“I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Should Streets Building Wall Empty Hey Thieves Housing Squatters

Author:Al Lewis

“I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.”

Needs Feels May Feelings Night Guy Fun Enjoy Type Empty Vain Cynical Leaving Me One Night Sexually One Night Stand Type Of Guy

Author:Ben Affleck

“She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe. And when at last it was filled again, you knew that the new love you felt for a woman would have been impossible without Alma. If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.”

Ifs Needs Years Long Has Beens Lasts Left Grows Felt Space Gone Impossible Tree Love You Long Time Empty Filled Fence Hollow Empty Space History Of Love

Author:Nicole Krauss

“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962”

Source: A Life in Letters

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