Vacuums Quotes - Page 5

• Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

  James Dyson

  People, House, Needs

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• Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Education, Religious, Children

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• The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

  David Brainerd

  Spiritual, Hard Times, Space

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.122

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• How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

  Joseph Joubert

  People, Profound, Shadow

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• Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

  James Larkin

  Cancer, Cutting, Class

  James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press

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• If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

  Cesare Pavese

  Scary, Feelings, Would Be

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.159, Transaction Publishers

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• Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

  Ezra Pound

  Doe, Use, Literature

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• I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, Wonder, Stumps

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• The American people abhor a vacuum.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  America, People

  United States. President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Theodore Roosevelt (1908). “The Roosevelt Policy: Speeches, Letters and State Papers, Relating to Corporate Wealth and Closely Allied Topics, of Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States”

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• All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Dog, Art, War

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• Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

  George Will

  Party, Years, Two

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• People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.

  Eudora Welty

  Hurt, Pain, People

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• If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

  John Barrymore

  Attachment, Debt, Finance

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• UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

  Dave Barry

  Squares, Feet, Laptops

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.21, Ballantine Books

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• It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

  Ben Berger

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Christ, Every Man

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• Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.

  John Green

  Twilight, Writing, People

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• All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.

  John Banville

  Party, People, Paper

  John Banville (2011). “Eclipse”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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• In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy.

  Nigel Lawson

  Europe, Issues, Climate

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• We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or televsion to fill up the void... We can do our housework with soap-opera heroes at our side... Now instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must re-learn to be alone.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Dream, Hero, Being Alone

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• So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Retreat, Energy

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• A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Science, Imagine

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• The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Business, People, Decision

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• When a husband says, "I run things in my home" he may mean the washing machine, the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner.

  Sam Ewing

  Running, Husband, Home

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• You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophical, Eye, Want

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