Empty Quotes - Page 21

• During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Giving, Effort, Promise

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Father, Home, Empty Mind

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food on the table, and they come home to an empty house and they go to sleep in an empty house, there is no way that child can compete against a child from the west side of Los Angeles who both parents went to Stanford. Well, good for them, God love them. That's not an equal playing field.

  Rafe Esquith

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whenever I start working on a song, I immediately try to forget everything, to empty my head. I try to approach it like,“This is the first time I've ever played a guitar. What am I going to do?”. That's one way of getting straight through the conscious mind into the subconscious layer where the true creative spirit lies.

  Edge

  Song, Lying, Guitar

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• If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

  Charles Handy

  Mean, Promise, Progress

  Charles B. Handy (1995). “The Empty Raincoat: Making Sense of the Future”, Random House Business Books

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• An empty throne always tempts me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Thrones

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• A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

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• For a heart to be perfectly ready it has to be perfectly empty. In this condition it has attained its maximum capacity.

  Meister Eckhart

  Heart, Capacity, Ready

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• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Disappointment, Errors, Jewels

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• Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
  Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Evil, Hypocrisy

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.68, Penguin

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• For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.

  Adam Gopnik

  Coffee, Unique, Ideas

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Men, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches, nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair.

  John Steinbeck

  Games, Singing, Despair

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

  Nelson Mandela

  Strong, Secret, Spirit

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• Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?

  Rob Brezsny

  Bored, Shrines, Sentimental

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• Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Space, Silence

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• There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the mother of the universe. For lack of a better name, I call it the Tao. It flows through all things, inside and outside, and returns to the origin of all things. The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth follows the universe. The universe follows the Tao. The Tao follows only itself.

  Laozi

  Mother, Men, Names

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• I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Rainy Day, Silence

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• No matter your wreckage. There will be someone to find you beautiful, despite the cruddy metal. Your ruin is not to be hidden behind paint and canvas. Let them see the cracks. Someone will come to sing into these empty spaces.

  Sarah Kay

  Beautiful, Space, Cracks

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• A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Real, Sacrifice

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• The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is of love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your heart.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Prayer, Heart, Humility

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• An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.

  Arthur Baer

  Cab

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• Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps a Correctness Verification Aid package. Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Real, Love Is

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• Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.95, New World Library

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

  Mooji

  Ideas, Fantasy, Projection

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