Empty Quotes - Page 18

• Be an empty page, untouched by words.

  Rumi

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• But here in the struggle for fame and pelf
  I want to be able to like myself.
  I don't want to look at myself and know
  That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

  Edgar Guest

  Struggle, Able, Looks

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• The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the centuries, but the new continent was to be the home and temple of the living God.

  Chauncey Depew

  Memories, Home, Tragedy

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1902). “The Library of Oratory: Ancient and Modern, with Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists”

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• One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

  Willa Cather

  Book, Years, Rivers

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• The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.

  Margaret of Valois

  Joy, Cups

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• And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever.

  Mary McGrory

  Leadership, Women, People

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• Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Heart, People, May

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• There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Fall, Self, Pieces

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• my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.

  Susanna Centlivre

  Doctors, Three, Months

  Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.97

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• 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.

  Annie Proulx

  Men, Experts, Affair

  Annie Proulx (2008). “The Shipping News: A Novel”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace withoutgrandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, America, Clouds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.96, Library of America

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• I have discovered that you can go from nowhere to somewhere, from nothing to something, from a nobody to a somebody, from an empty person to a fulfilled one, if you have faith in God.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Have Faith, Faith In God, Fulfilled

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• People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Glasses, People, Half

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• I do not know
  What kind of my obedience I should tender.
  More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers
  Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes
  More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes
  Are all I can return.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Vanity, Wish

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King John and King Henry VIII”, p.215, Hackett Publishing

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• Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Teacher, Commitment, Self

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• Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of being inhabited; if the Romans consulted the heavens for guidance in this effort, the city fathers of New York consulted the banks.

  Richard Sennett

  New York, Father, Land

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• Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

  Sophocles

  Heart, Thinking, Spirit

  Sophocles (1951). “The Theban Plays: King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”

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• Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Void, Form

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• In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Stories, Meaningless

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• Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Understanding

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• Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nice, Bird, Cages

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• The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

  Dean Rusk

  Peace, United States, World

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• Some people feel like they don't deserve love so they walk quietly into the empty spaces.

  Christopher McCandless

  Deserve Love, Space, People

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• The clothes in themselves are empty. But what they throw off and what clothes mean as signifiers is incredibly interesting - to see what people do with it. That's more interesting to me than flipping through a magazine or seeing the fall look.

  Kim Gordon

  Fall, Mean, Clothes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think drugs are a problem; I think they're a symptom. As long as Americans are empty, spiritually, emotionally, morally empty, they will need things like the drugs they choose to use. Mankind has wanted to change the way it felt from the beginning anyway. In this country there are even more reasons to want to feel different, to want to feel better, because this is such a neon sewer. This is such a degrading culture. It forces you to play Beethoven to your child in the uterus so that he will get into a better school and a better job and make more money so he can take care of you.

  George Carlin

  Country, Jobs, Children

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