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Quotes About Empty

I get very tired of books that feel emotionally empty. I would much rather have writers err on the side of being overly sentimental than not. I think that the perfect balance is a story that moves you without being maudlin, but I don't enjoy books that are empty of emotion and there's no connection to the characters.
~ Alexi Zentner
We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.
~ Michael T. Flynn
The gods spit on those without honor, you know! It'll be a cold hell, and a dark one, for you!" "I'm chock-full of honor, sir. Got lots of it. Keep it right here between my empty stomach and my puckered white ass, which you may kiss, by the way.
~ Scott Lynch
The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.
~ David Jeremiah
My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.
~ Mark Twain
Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.
~ Markus Zusak
I walk away, afraid. Afraid because I don't want my own funeral to be that forlorn and empty. I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
~ Markus Zusak
The soft-spoken words fell off the side of the bed, emptying onto the floor like powder.
~ Markus Zusak
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.
~ Arthur Golden
amount of freedom you have in your life is not the measure of the worth of your life. Just as safety is an empty and even self-defeating goal to live for, so ultimately is autonomy.
~ Atul Gawande
The amount of freedom you have in your life is not the measure of the worth of your life. Just as safety is an empty and even self-defeating goal to live for, so ultimately is autonomy. The
~ Atul Gawande
He was immediately taken aback, recognizing that an empty stomach is what we require for patients going to surgery. I tried
~ Atul Gawande
empty glass. "The situation of Miss Dalling and the Marquess does seem to be of some urgency—but how much of that derives
~ Stephanie Laurens
I have been enormously privileged, through my work, in being able to contribute to our understanding of the universe. But it would be an empty universe indeed if it were not for the people I love, and who love me. Without them, the wonder of it all would be lost on me.
~ Stephen Hawking
The color white is the absence of memory.
~ Stephen King
The gunslinger said, I used to think the most terrible thing would be to reach the Dark Tower and find the top room empty. The God of all universes either dead or nonexistent in the first place. But now...suppose there is someone there, Eddie? Someone in charge who turns out to be... He couldn't finish. Eddie could. Someone who turns out to be just another bumhug? Is that it? God not dead but feeble-minded and malicious?
~ Stephen King
Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art.
~ Unarine Ramaru
And empty words are evil.
~ Homer, The Odyssey
So much the more men exalt themselves, so much the less will they surely be disposed to exalt God. 'Tis certainly a thing that God aims at in the disposition of things in the affair of redemption (if we allow the Scriptures to be a revelation of God's mind), that God should appear full, and man in himself empty, that God should appear all, and man nothing.
~ Jonathan Edwards
I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky. But there wasn't any gum under any of them.
~ Emo Philips
La oscuridad se convirtió en un espacio infinito y vacío, en cuyo centro se hallaba la madre del género humano.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
If you give it an index that is greater than or equal to the length of the string, it returns the empty string.
~ Eric Freeman
Inspiration was a temperamental guest. It dropped in unannounced, then left without so much as a goodbye, slipping out a window in the dead of night or sauntering out the front door, leaving the house empty, drafty, and cold.
~ Eric Wilson