Best 517 quotes in «empty quotes» category

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.

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

A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

...because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.

Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Before beginning an activity always first empty yourself of thoughts regarding what you are about to do.

Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men.  It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.

Born empty handed, Die empty handed. I witnessed life at its fullest, Empty handed.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

But no matter how many fish in the sea, itd be so empty without me.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.

Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow and empty.

Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.

Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.

Donald Trump, as a businessman, he's not much of a builder and he's not much of dealmaker and he certainly isn't very good at making expenses line up with income. But he is a marketing genius. He must have seen an empty market niche that no one but him filled.

Donald Trump participated in something known as the empty box scam. He bought $65,000 worth of jewelry from Bulgari across the street from Trump Tower, and had the record show that it was mailed to him in an out-of-state address. Now, if you're not a New York resident, you may not have to pay sales tax if the jewelry is mailed to you in another state. The problem is, they were empty boxes. It was proven.

Canada is a vast and empty country.

Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

Empty Chambers make foolish maides.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

Empty your mind of all thoughts.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.

Empty pockets make empty heads.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Empty words almost echo within themselves

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.

Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.