Best 517 quotes in «empty quotes» category

This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.

Those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.

We all do that as human beings, you know? It's what my mom would call shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to buy food that you shouldn't because, at the time, you are reacting to your hunger.

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.

We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple - without a divinity!

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked.

When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.

When the mind is most empty It is most full.

When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.

When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

When Rae got back, she spread her empty hands wide and said "Okay, guess where I hid it." She even turned around for me, but I couldn't see a bulge big enough to hide a flashlight. With a grin, she reached down the front of her shirt into the middle of her bra, and pulled out a flashlight with flourish. I laughed. "Cleavage is great," she said. "Like an extra pocket.

When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

...When this map was made, there was only empty forest in the south," Gran told Birle."Not empty," Granda corrected her. "The forest is never empty.

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves.

When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.