Empty Quotes - Page 8

• You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird.

  Tori Amos

  Girl, Bird, Cages

  Song: Crucify, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.

  Ajahn Chah

  Pain, Men, Self

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• I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Money, Men, White Man

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• Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

  Danny Gregory

  Art, Teaching, Use

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• When a person spends his entire day with no concern but Allah alone, Allah will take care of all his needs and take care of all that is worrying him; He will empty his heart so that it will be filled only with love for Him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Heart, Worry, Needs

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• Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty.
  And sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too full.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  People, Sometimes

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• To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

  Tim DeKay

  Thinking, Honest, Possibility

  "‘White Collar’ Star Tim DeKay On Directing, Playing Catch In Yankee Stadium And More" By Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2012.

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• Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the realm of constant victory, health, wholeness, and financial prosperity. In response to this we are not to pretend that suffering doesn’t exist or that it might be instantly cured. Such notions are the product of empty heads and closed Bibles.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Successful, Bombarded By

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• Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heaven, Helping, Hell

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.47, Ravenio Books

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• I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

  Gary Busey

  Dream, Land, Space

  "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

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• A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!

  Frank Bartleman

  God, Christian, Fall

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• We must think ourselves empty when coming to the text of scripture and read ourselves full.

  Alistair Begg

  Thinking, Scripture

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• Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Fun, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 17, 2014

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• We must be full reservoirs in order to let our water spill out without becoming empty, and we must possess the spirit with which we want them to be animated, for no one can give what he does not have.

  Vincent de Paul

  Order, Giving, Water

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1993). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”, New City Pr

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• I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in our place? Would you not resist if you were allowed no rights in your own country because the color of your skin is different to that of the rulers, and if you were punished for even asking for equality? I appeal to you, and through you to all the countries of the world, to do everything you can to stop the coming tragedy. I appeal to you to save the lives of our leaders, to empty the prisons of all those who should never have been there.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Countries Of The World, Rights

  "Honoring Mama Africa: Angélique Kidjo Pays Tribute to South African Singer, Activist Miriam Makeba". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 3, 2014.

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• My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and be ready to change. It's how you experience the grace to enjoy the smell of the pavement after a rain - the little things in life to make you satisfied. I never settle for anything that doesn't give me a modicum of pleasure if not total joy and satisfaction. It's allowed, that's what we're supposed to feel. How can we, from an empty cup, offer a stranger a drink of water? You have to fill that cup to the brim!

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Philosophy, Rain, Past

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.

  Karen Armstrong

  Fear, World, Shapes

  Karen Armstrong (2010). “The Spiral Staircase”, p.78, Vintage Canada

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• We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core.
  Without them, we are empty.

  Daisy Whitney

  Ideas, People, Juicy

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• To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

  Eunhyuk

  Soccer, Empty Life, Would Be

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• As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.

  Will Shortz

  Space, Natural, Compulsion

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• Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

  Eleanor Brown

  Selfish, Empty Vessels, Care

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• We all need support and friendship, regardless of circumstances. But where do people turn when friends and family are simply no longer there, or can't help us through a difficult time, or need all our care and attention and can't give us any in return? Thank goodness for befriending projects, who help fill the empty spaces where care, support and a listening ear need to be.

  Nicola Sturgeon

  Listening Ear, Space, People

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• Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

  Alan Guth

  Average, Space, Realizing

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• We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

  Jerry Springer

  Empty Vessels, Moral, Born

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• Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open. That’s because the essence of mind is empty. It’s wide open and free

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Single Mom, Thinking, Essence

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