Empty Quotes

• Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

  Grace Metalious

  Bottles, Saws, Empty Bottles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Meditation, Mind, Ready

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.

  Nicholas Breton

  Wish, Want, Purses

  'A Farewell to Town' (1577)

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• All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

  Demosthenes

  Speech, Action, Vain

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• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Life, Inspiring, Funny Inspirational

  Quoted in Peter Passell and Leonard Ross, The Best (1974)

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• They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Running, Strong, Pain

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

  Saint Augustine

  Art, Catholic, Hippo

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.4272, Aeterna Press

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• The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.

  Josh McDowell

  Easter, Clothes, Mind

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• What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

  Michelangelo

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Shoes

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• Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Christian, Hurt

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.45, New World Library

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• I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

  Jack Kerouac

  I Hate You, Glowing, Pages

  Jack Kerouac (1971). “The Dharma Bums”, p.138, Penguin

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• If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

  Dale Carnegie

  Attitude, Inspiration, Victory

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Mean

  "The Works of John Bunyan: Experimental, doctrinal, and practical". Book editing by George Offor, Blackie and son, p. 623, 1858.

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• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Book, Reading

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.148

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• When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.

  Judith Wright

  Hurt, Heart, Creative

  "There Must Be More Than This: Finding More Life, Love and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions".

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• Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

  Sophocles

  Men, Thinking, Uprising

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• Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

  Mary MacLane

  Strong Women, Taken, Heart

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• Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

  Hugo Pratt

  Real, Fighter

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• I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Dark, Half Empty, Sides

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• Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

  Democritus

  Motivational, Philosophy, Science

  Diogenes Laertius, vol.9.

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• Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

  Eileen Caddy

  Life, Rooms, Emptiness

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• Empty vessels make the most sound.

  John Lydgate

  Wise, Wisdom, Empty Vessels

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Intuition, Blind

  Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer (1998). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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