Best 517 quotes in «empty quotes» category

One of the three big factors that count against war in the relationship between China and the U.S. are, first, nuclear weapons and even a condition of mutual assured destruction. Secondly, one's got two economies that have become so deeply interlaced that a war between the U.S. and China would leave Wal-Marts empty and Chinese factories producing for nothing. Thirdly, climate - if between the two of us, we keep doing what we're doing, we can create a climate in which our grandchildren won't be able to live.

Only what?” I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. “Only… more human.” And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. “Get out,” I said.

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

Our chair will remain empty one day, but our ideas will continue to sit on that chair! However in the very distant future, there will remain neither chair nor ideas! All will disappear!

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.

Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space.

Paradise belonged to the innocent.  Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.

Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.

Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.

Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.

Strength is an empty shell.

Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.

The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.

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

The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.

The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden.

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

The loneliest people in the world are those who have exhausted pleasure and come away empty.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.