Empty Quotes - Page 39

• The simple fact that the Christian fellowship, founded on belief in Jesus' resurrection, came into existence and flourished in the very city where he was executed and buried is powerful evidence for the historicity of the empty tomb.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Jesus, Easter

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• Let all men know how empty and powerless is the power of kings. For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth and sea obey

  Cnut the Great

  Kings, Ignorance, Men

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• The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Passion, Humility

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• When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

  Bruce Barton

  Spring, Believe, Moving

  Masonic News, Volume 8, p. 181, 1927.

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• The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for a more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people.

  George Washington Carver

  Beautiful, Health, Mean

  "George Washington Carver: In His Own Words".

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• We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Letting Go, Hands, Mind

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• The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers - weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there's money inside. There's where the power lies.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Lying, Athlete

  "Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete". Book by Tony Gentry, 1990.

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• If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How little pride your ancestors will have in you in this world and the next if you do no good! All men are children of Adam whom Allah created by His own Hands, giving him paradise for a dwelling place and letting His angels bow down before him. But how little is the advantage from this since all the vices dwell in mankind and all the wicked impious people are among their number.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wisdom, Children, Islamic

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• Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Kindness, Father, Bye

  Sathya Sai Baba (1988). “Education in human values”

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• Here's who it's okay to share a bed with: . . . A heating pad. An empty bag of pita chips. The love of your life.

  Lena Dunham

  Love, Pads, Bed

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• Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

  Thomas Huxley

  Law, Mind, Shadow

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.191, University of Georgia Press

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• It's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as-and ahead of-the competition as you possibly can be.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiration, Winning, Opportunity

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.88, Diversion Books

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• The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

  Franz Kafka

  Horse, Block, Gay

  Franz Kafka (1946). “The great wall of China: stories and reflections”

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• The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.

  Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

  Warrior, Moon, Empty Mind

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• If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur.

  Mark Twain

  War, Home, Fighting

  Mark Twain (1994). “Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches”, p.146, Penguin

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• Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Commitment

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• I be yellin out money over everything, money on my mind then she wanna ask when it got so empty. Tell her I apologize, happened over time. They say they miss the old Drake, girl don't tempt me

  Drake

  Girl, Missing, Mind

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• When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.

  Alan Garner

  Writing, Simple, World

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• When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. . . .When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have e made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Morning, Book

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• I have seen my kid struggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Morning, Teenage

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• Try to go out empty and let your images fill you up.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Trying, Photographer

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• Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle indulgences of fancy.

  John Dewey

  Dream, Nature, Home

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.294, SIU Press

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• All work is empty save when there is love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Motivational, Success

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital punishment would be administered with fairness and justice. Instead, the promise has become a cruel and empty mockery. If not remedied, the scandalous state of our present system of capital punishment will cast a pall of shame over our society for years to come. We cannot let it continue.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Years, Punishment, Justice

  Thurgood Marshall (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, Chicago Review Press

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• Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

  Robert Peel

  Fishing, Pool, Economics

  Robert Peel, W.T. Haly (1850). “The Opinions of Sir Robert Peel, Expressed in Parliament and in Public”, p.145

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