Vacuums Quotes

• Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

  Sophia Loren

  Food, Spaghetti, Cleaners

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• Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Movement

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.21, Vintage

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• Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Change, Filled, Humans

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in.

  Catherine Ponder

  Change, Letting Go, Moving

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

  Diane Glancy

  Creativity

  Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”

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• There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spiritual, Heart

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• I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Mother, Clever

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• Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Soul, Mind, Architecture

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Boredom, Existential, States

  Viktor E. Frankl (1985). “Man's Search For Meaning”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Long, Our Actions, Sometimes

  "Khaled Hosseini: The Threads That Connect Us" by Khaled Hosseini, www.shelf-awareness.com.

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• Nature abhors a vacuum.

  Francois Rabelais

  Nature, Hate, Science

  "Gargantua", Chapter V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 544-48, 1922.

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• A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

  Tennessee Williams

  Nature, Stuff, Hell

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) act 2. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 403:27

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• There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Spiritual, Jesus

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• Screaming. Did I mention the screaming? Screaming is usually associated with horror films and roller coasters. This is why I usually look like I've just watched a horror film on a rollercoaster. Kids love to scream. Frightened, happy, bored. They scream. I've actually learned to love the sound of a vacuum cleaner. It's just so peaceful.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Kids, Bored, Peaceful

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.109, Crown Archetype

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• Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Nature, Science

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.221, Courier Corporation

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• Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

  Evangelista Torricelli

  Nature, Science, Resistance

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• Change means movement. Movement means friction.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Movement

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.224, Vintage

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• There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Symbolism, Hopeful, Cynical

  "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.

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• He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crush, Running, Dog

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

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• Nature hates vacuum. Once a society is depleted of moral values, it creates a vacuum that will be filled by doctrines that hold to such values, even though those values are draconian and oppressive. In fact the more a society is devoid of morality, the more promising prudish and unpermissive doctrines look. Licentious societies create a spiritual vacuum that legalistic religions such as Islam fill.

  Ali Sina

  Spiritual, Hate, Islam

  Source: myislam.dk

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• It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

  Rene Descartes

  Space, Contrary, Absolutely Nothing

  Principia Philosophiae pt. 2, sec. 16 (1644)

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• Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.

  James T. Shotwell

  Peace, War, Two

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• Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

  Lydia Millet

  Clouds, Ideas, Sound

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• A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Illustration, Lasts, Gowns

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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• The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If they are mainly small, weak, superficial, and incoherent, life will appear insipid , uninteresting, petty and chaotic.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Lying, Ideas, Giving

  "SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL".

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