Best Filling Up Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Weightless: Making Peace with Your Body

“Am I the only one that worries about the nation filling up with gender challenged people?”

Gay Gender Lgbtq Queer Filling Up Gender Dysphoria The Only One Am I Gender Challenged People Worries About The Nation

“Picture that the waves of golden light have now become a solid river of golden light that is constantly passing through you. Picture this golden light expanding beyond your body and filling up the entire room.”

Body Light Rooms Rivers Wave Your Body Passing Passings Golden Expanding Filling Visualization Passing Through Filling Up Golden Light

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The man with a heart cannot think about or see creatures without his eyes filling up with tears because of the immense compassion which seizes his heart.”

Thinking Men Heart Eye Compassion Kindness Tears He Man Creatures His Eyes Immense Filling Filling Up

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.”

Years Ideas Cases Twenties Bars No Idea Filling Terminal Filling Up

Author:Tom Waits

“Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours of retirement.”

Men Mean Jobs Hours Empty Retirement Presidency Filling Part Time Filling Up Part Time Jobs

Author:Simon Hoggart

“Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You never have to worry about filling up your car, never go to the gas station, never plug it in, never do any of these things.”

Kind Worry Imagine Car Capacity Parks Gas Stations Vehicle Electric Filling Batteries Plugs Gas Stations Filling Up Electric Vehicles

Author:William J. Mitchell

“People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.”

People Long Laughter Chaos Smoking Bags Distraction Shopping Cigarette Coats Filling Smoking Cigarettes Shuffling Filling Up Feigning

Author:Rob Payne

“Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own.”

Lasts Loss Watches Graves Curious Carrie Filling Cemetery Filling Up

Book:I know what I'm worth

Source: I know what I'm worth

“By mortifying vanity we do ourselves no good. It is the want of interest in our life which produces it; by filling up that want of interest in our life we can alone remedy it.”

Want Interest Our Lives Produce Vanity Remedy Filling Filling Up

Book:Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

Source: Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

“Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.”

Inspirational Fun Music Rocks Empty Chests Filling Elbows Filling Up

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“The War on Drugs has failed - but it’s worse than that. It is actively harming our society. Violent crime is thriving in the shadows to which the drug trade has been consigned. People who genuinely need help can’t get it. Neither can people who need medical marijuana to treat terrible diseases. We are spending billions, filling up our prisons with non-violent offenders and sacrificing our liberties.”

“Love is the reason I just keep filling up my little eyedropper, keep filling it up and emptying my ocean one drop at a time. I’m not here to eliminate poverty, to eradicate disease, to put a stop to people abandoning babies. I’m just here to love.”

People Littles Reason Love Is Poverty Baby Disease Ocean Filling Filling Up

Author:Katie Davis

“Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.”

Wife Claims Ice Irrelevant Filling Rubbish Refrigerators Filling Up

Book:Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

Source: Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“Don’t wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary “what if” scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Real Rooms Plans Seeing What If Imaginary Filling Conferences Feedback Floats Scenarios Time Spent Business Plan Launching Brainstorming Filling Up

Author:Naveen Jain

“We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience have been enduring great struggles and dealings, being processed by the Lord and filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. These are not those who seek a reputation for themselves, their passion is His glory and giving Him the church He has longed for. May God grant us all the heart of apostolic fathering and mothering that can release His power in the earth. Zion is once again in travail to bring forth her children.”

“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body.”

People Long Body Kids Felt Sun Crazy Objects Wind Periods Window Seasons Sick Observation Grandfather Filling My Grandfather Crazy People Filling Up Sick Kids

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.”

“I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.”

Church Week Gas Sunday Stations Filling Gas Stations Filling Up

Author:Anne Lamott

“And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.”

House Army Dear Prisoner Filling Dear God Sister In Law Filling Up Dear Sister

Book:Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States

Source: Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States

“My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!”

World Mother Next Study Doors Heard Car Daughter Smell My Daughter Scent Filling Fragrance Gasoline Mummy Filling Up

Author:Kate Moss

“I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.”

Used Paper Hatred Magazines Papers Filling Blogs Tabloids Filling Up

Author:Adele

“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”

“I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.”

People Knows Feels Writing Long Book Courses Space Newspapers Filling Really Long Filling Up Long Book

Author:Vikram Seth

“The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.”

Giving Sex Pleasure Car Essentials Chinese Daily Life Ritual Afternoon Filling Naps Vietnamese Filling Up

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between, filling up their lives with distractions to avoid the emptiness where curiosity should have been.”

Should Has Beens Eye Behinds Events Should Have Curiosity Terror Emptiness Subtle Gaps Distraction Filling Should Have Been Filling Up

Book:The Great and Secret Show: The First Book of the Art

Source: The Great and Secret Show: The First Book of the Art

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”

Soul Might Law Imagination Natural Space Grace Movement Empty Exception Controlled Void Gravity Filling Empty Space Filling Up

Author:Simone Weil

“I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios.”

Running Faces Fall Streets Huge Shapes Skins Presses Heavy Wide Weather Boat Settling Roof Sail Filling Purple Statues Thighs Damp Zeppelins Balconies Roosters Filling Up Snowfall

Book:The Favourite Game

Source: The Favourite Game

“Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.”

Feels Running Half Bottom Filling Filling Up Hourglass Running Out Of Time

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.”

Left Space Behinds Empty Filling Left Behind Folds Empty Space Wildness Second Place Filling Up

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words”

Real Talking Air Decided Tests Real Friends Filling Not Talking Filling Up

Author:Catherine Ryan Hyde

“You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.”

People Want Writing Ideas Running Water Empty Breaths Smell Emptiness Filling Filling Up

Author:Anne Lamott

“Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.”

Justice Fire Teaching Social Justice Filling Lighting Filling Up Lighting A Fire

Author:William Butler Yeats

“One day, through my prayers, an overwhelming amount of love started flowing into me, filling up the dark hole that threatened to consume me. I suddenly realized that what I was feeling was the love of the Earth, the love of Creation. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.”

Life Giving Feelings Earth Dark Prayer Ability Creation Amount One Day Species Holes Love Life Overwhelming Threatened Filling Filling Up

Author:Julia Hill

“I think I know how to raise a kid. You just play catch with 'em. You just talk about life, and you distract them by throwing the ball. They don't even notice that you're filling up their heads with your theories.”

Thinking Knows Play Kids Know How Theory Balls Raises Ems Throwing Fatherhood Filling Filling Up

Author:Bill Burr

“If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.”

Ifs Years Careers Risk Athlete Pushing Longevity Filling Calendars Burnt Out Filling Up

Author:Alberto Juantorena

“Well Ibrox is filling up slowly, but rapidly”

Wells Soccer Filling Funny Soccer Filling Up

Author:James Sanderson

“Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.”

Whole Body Pain Together Suffering Christ Church Loss Bears Amount Sake Filling Slander Sufferers Body Of Christ Unkindness Filling Up

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily”

Should Enough Hours Pleasure Duty Filling Filling Up

Book:Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963

Source: Collected Letters Volume Three: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963

“The Heart is like a fuel tank, that you always have to keep filling up with Imaan”

Heart Fuel Filling Tanks Filling Up

Author:Nouman Ali Khan

“I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously?”

Hands Guy Saws Smoking Gas Filling Tanks Filling Up

Author:Jessica Capshaw

“I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.”

Ifs Doe Whole Fall Space Virtue Greatness Opposites Extremes Admire Excess Display Filling Benevolence Space Between Ascent Extremity Valour Filling Up

Author:Blaise Pascal

“My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.”

Wells Book Feelings Home Mother Father Parent Interest Records Taste Indifference Filling Bad Taste Emblems Bathtubs Stingy Filling Up

Author:Vincent Gallo