Best empty & wells Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth.”

Feels Mind Wells Doe Seems Earth Growth Sun Possibility Empty Hot Shining Warm Plot

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart. Hope is the feeling that life and work have a meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Life without hope is an empty, boring, and useless life. I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. I am thankful to God for this gift. It is as big as life itself.”

“Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.”

Source: The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

“For those who have only to obey, law is what the sovereign commands. For the sovereign, in the throes of deciding what he ought to command, this view of law is singularly empty of light and leading. In the dispersed sovereignty of modern states, and especially in times of rapid social change, law must look to the future as well as to history and precedent, and to what is possible and right as well as to what is actual.”

Wells Looks States Light Law Social Views Modern Ought Empty Command Sovereign Sovereignty Social Change Rapids Precedent Looking To The Future

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“I know the woman has no soul, I know The woman has no possibilities Of soul or mind or heart, but merely is The masterpiece of flesh: well, be it so. It is her flesh that I adore; I go Thirsting afresh to drain her empty kiss. I know she cannot love: it is not this My vanquished heart implores in overthrow. Tyrannously I crave, I crave alone, Her splendid body, Earth's most eloquent Music, divinest human harmony; Her body now a silent instrument, That 'neath my touch shall wake and make for me The strains I have but dreamed of, never known.”

Knows Mind Humans Wells Heart Soul Body Earth Women Known Possibility Kissing Empty Harmony Instruments Silent Flesh Adore Masterpiece Strain Crave Splendid Drains Eloquent

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.”

Ifs Writing Wells Stills I Can Night Found Dark Plans One Thing Tomorrow Summer Window Empty Paid Dues Golden Midst Lit Stormy Inns Writing Every Day Stormy Nights

Author:Tanith Lee

“Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.”

Ifs Feels Wells May Mean Ideas Wisdom Politics Sound Economy Quiet Empty Property Slave Enjoyment Abstract Liberalism Secured

Book:A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland

Source: A History of the Protestant Reformation in England and Ireland

“Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.”

Wells Common Growing Empty Drawing Common Sense Folly Toil Dropping Growing Old Buckets Reverie Airy

Author:William Cowper

“I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.”

World Wells Looks Might Eye This World Empty Tired Look Up Ennui

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Detachment, lack of sentimentality, originality, a lot of things that sound rather empty. I know what they mean. Let's say, "visual impact" may not mean much to anybody. I could point it out though. I mean it's a quality that something has or does not have. Coherence. Well, some things are weak, some things are strong.”

Knows Wells May Mean Doe Strong Sound Quality Photography Empty Weak Impact Photographer Visuals Originality Detachment Sentimentality Coherence

Author:Walker Evans

“we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.”

Source: American diary, 1898

“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

“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.”

“Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.”

Knows Wells Asks Powerful Pay Attention Taught Empty Species Starting Pay Attention Flexibility Cognitive Taught Us Learners Cognitive Science Empty Heads

Author:Paul Bloom

“Since philosophy is the exploration of the rational, it is for that very reason the apprehension of the present and the actual, not the erection of a beyond, supposed to exist, God knows where, or rather which exists, and we can perfectly well say where, namely in the error of a one-sided, empty, ratiocination.”

Knows Wells Reason Philosophy Reality Empty Philosophical Errors Rational Exploration Realism God Knows Apprehension One Sided

Book:Philosophy of right

Source: Philosophy of right

“Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.”

Men Wells Doe Dies Hope Pleasure Empty Following Noble Worthless Noble Man

Author:Sophocles

“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

“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

“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 learned early on to abandon all those preconceived notions you have about other actors and it's served me really well. I usually just try to empty my mind of that. I love meeting actors and I love working with actors.”

Trying Mind Wells Actors Empty Meetings Notion Abandon Preconceived Notions

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”

Writing Wells Stills Night Powerful Spring Empty Feds Deep Thought Inspiring Writing Moveable Feast Refills

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“Freedom has only the meaning with which men endow it. It is not enough to pay lip service to the concept of religious liberty. We must pay heart service to it as well, else it remains an empty phrase instead of a living reality.”

Men Wells Heart Enough Reality Religious Pay Liberty Concepts Empty Remains Lips Phrases Religious Liberty Lip Service Living Reality

Author:Kenneth Keating

“When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.”

“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

“I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.”

Thinking Wells Television Empty Make Sense Entertaining Junk Junk Food

Author:Frank Spotnitz

“What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at their core will have more of an impact on the cultural consciousness than a character who's just an empty collection of attributes.”

Wells Ideas Matter Character Strong Consciousness Fit Empty Impact Definitions Core Collections Attributes

Author:Kurt Busiek

“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

“There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.”

People Wells Two Cities Morning Environment Streets Strange Comfort Empty Dancing Clubs Clock Theme Aesthetic Going Out Urban Desolate Empty Streets Urban Environment

Author:Moby

“And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.”

Way Feels Wells Persons Said I Can Remember Church Interesting Talking Heard Fans Tears Devil Empty Organization Radio Comedian Brown Ceo Humorists

Author:Nick Lowe

“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

“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.”

“A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is to help people understand the correlation between a steady diet of empty calories - though you may not experience hunger pangs, you can't really function well if all you're eating are things like ramen noodles, or chips, cookies, and sodas, things that are quite typically inexpensive and affordable because of the way we subsidize the ingredients that go into them.”

“And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper? Green like a cucumber, lettuce, or green like the sky is just before it breaks loose to storm? Well, night black is the same way. May as well be a rainbow.”

Thinking Way Wells Kind May Stills Moving Night Black Dark Talking Break Five Sky Color Six Empty Green Fingers Storm Just One Bottles Rainbow Lettuce Cucumbers Grasshoppers Pitch Black

Author:Toni Morrison

“As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.”

Way Wells Long Opportunity Imagination Space Rooms Known Empty Well Known

Book:Golden

Source: Golden

“I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.”

Wells Book Reading Week Changed Findings Empty Colour Flats Immediacy

Author:Doris Lessing

“They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well. ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.”

Knows Needs Wells Doe Shows Joy Guy Left Loneliness Identity Depression Empty Pockets Badges

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.”

Source: Hunger

“A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.”

Men World Wells Heart Has Beens Said Hard Lasts Courses Destiny Fate Judging Broken Stones Empty Opposites Desert Barren Reckoning

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog world about it . . . judging from the shadow, it was soaring higher and more gaily than myself. 'Very well,' you will say, 'Why didn’t you turn around. That would be the scientific thing to do.' But let me tell you it is not done ― not on an empty road at midnight.”

World Wells Done Would Be Turns My Own Judging Higher Shadow Empty Let Me Things To Do Suggestions Soar Midnight Frogs Uncanny

Author:Loren Eiseley

“I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.”

Humans Wells Littles Bigs Seems Happens Dies Memories Existence Mistake Imagine Empty Bounds Leaving Oneself Spite Slips Sooner Or Later Human Existence Improbable Big Mistake

Book:Whatever: A Novel

Source: Whatever: A Novel

“Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.”

People Way Feels Humans Wells Made Feelings Bigs Seems Left Deals Empty Everyday Contact Awful Fake Big Deal Hollow

Book:Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“...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

“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.”

“Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she felt was a sense of satisfaction as she realized that they would eat well today. Amazing how an empty belly could change your perspective, she thought.”

Wells Might Today Felt Perspective Bird Empty Satisfaction Cruelty Belly

Author:John Flanagan

“Note to self on waking. Lay off the beer on an empty stomach. This dream is even more screwed up than the time I had a donkey and a corkscrew. (Aiden) Donkey and a corkscrew? (Leta) I don’t know you well enough to fill you in on those details. (Aiden)”

Knows Wells Self Enough Dream Empty Lays Notes Details Beer Stomach Waking Screwed Up Donkey Note To Self Empty Stomach

Book:Upon The Midnight Clear

Source: Upon The Midnight Clear

“We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.”

Wells Book Together Certain Community Memories Silence Empty Silent Deeper Noise Intervals Agitation

Book:In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)

Source: In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)

“If you ant to feel deeply, you have to think deeply. Too often we separate the two. We assume that if we want to feel deeply, then we need to sit around and, well, feel. But emotion built on emotion is empty. True emotion- emotion that is reliable and does not lead us astray- is always a response to reality, to truth.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Feels Wells Doe Two Reality Emotion Built Empty Assuming Response Ants True Emotions

Author:Joshua Harris

“A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.”

World Wells Empty Conquer Purses Well Dressed Conquer The World

Author:Louise Brooks

“And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Made Past Waiting Cold Mass Empty Suicide Commit Reasoning Gray Shells Parrots Empty Shell

Author:Sylvia Plath

“There are memories for both of us, of course, but I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence, and in this, Savannah and I are different as well.If hers are stars in the nighttime sky, mine are the haunted empty spaces in beetween.”

Ifs Wells Different Courses Stars Memories Space Sky Mines Empty I've Learned Empty Space Nighttime Savannah

Author:Nicholas Sparks

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