Filled In Quotes

• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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• I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

  Coretta Scott King

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness". Book by David Bender, p. 213, 2000.

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• Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'myself' and 'yourself' will be filled in, which is the goal of all religious worship.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Religious, People, Goal

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• It was the sort of moment that a smoker would fill in with a cigarette and an ex-smoker filled in with the memory of a cigarette.

  Peter Corris

  Memories, Smoking, Moments

  Peter Corris (1987). “The January Zone: Cliff Hardy 10”, p.16, Allen & Unwin

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• No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up with in the morning, and it's the last thing you picture before you fall asleep. Everytime you think of it, the idea in your head seems to get more vivid, filled in with more detail: You not only want to win a gold medal at the Olympics, you not only can see yourself standing there on the podium, but you can also feel the goose bumps as your national anthem is played; the tears are in your eyes. (That's how real a dream can be and should be)

  James C. Collins

  Success, Dream, Morning

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• President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.

  Conan O'Brien

  Basketball, Daughter, Dad

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• I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

  Bill Gates

  Weather, People, Needs

  Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.  Everything has to be filled in, it seems-appointment books, hillsides, vacant lots-but when all the spaces are filled, the Loneliness really begins.  Then the Groups are joined, the Classes are signed up for, and the Gift-to-Yourself items are bought.  When the Loneliness starts creeping in the door, the Television Set is turned on to make it go away.  But it doesn't go away.  So some of us do instead, and after discarding the emptiness of the Big Congested Mess, we discover the fullness of Nothing.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Loneliness, Book, Class

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• I feel like a bit of a phony sometimes - I started acting because I didn’t know what else to do. I filled in all these university application forms and honestly didn’t want to do any of the courses.

  Aidan Turner

  Acting, Want, Sometimes

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Reality, Leaving, Principles

  "Chelsea Roff: Science Set Free — An Interview with Rupert Sheldrake". Interview with Chelsea Roff, intentblog.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.

  Gil Hodges

  Children, Real, Hard Work

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• Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Life, Acceptance, Love Is

  Pope Benedict XVI's Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate, w2.vatican.va. June 29, 2009.

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• We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Grieving, Dying

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• From what I hear, [ "Fifty Shades of Grey" ] is not a way that I feel like I need to be turned on or like a hole that needs to be filled in me.

  Lena Dunham

  Needs, Fifty, Shade

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Growing Up, Ocean

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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• The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Believe, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

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• I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. I’d never seen my father scared or cry. I’d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once I’d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impression—one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.

  Lloyd Jones

  Dad, Laughter, Children

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• Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped.

  Laura Dave

  Long, Details, Firsts

  Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.56, Penguin

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• He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.

  Martina Cole

  Quiet People, Offering, Years

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• Maybe there is hope in the fragments, that what is lost can always be filled in by someone who knows.

  David Levithan

  Fragments, Lost, There Is Hope

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.105, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.

  Haruki Murakami

  Needs, World, Pay

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• I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

  Harold Ross

  Writing, Space, Phrases

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• Television is all about sound. You'll never get a moment of silence unless there's something really extraordinary going on, on screen, visually. They never let a moment of silence pass without being filled in television because it's a very sound-driven medium.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Silence, Television, Sound

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks Deadfall, Sons of Anarchy Season 5, Pacific Rim, and Writing a Movie About a Drug Lord for Wb and Legendary". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I filled in for Papa Roach because we weren't doing much. Unwritten Law had a few more shows booked, but I got the call to fill in again at the end of the year. I was like, "I have to make myself available to these guys."

  Tony Palermo

  Years, Law, Guy

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