Quotes About Empty

Lifting a major trophy in front of an empty stadium would be a very strange feeling. But then you'd rather do that than not play at all.

In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

Trump has words, but there's not really any depth there.

The truth is you can't get more water from reservoirs that are empty.

There is a kind of preaching that God blesses, specifically the proclamation that exalts the crucified Christ by the power of the Spirit. Conversely, there is a kind of preaching that God does not bless, a mere echoing of man's empty wisdom that is devoid of Christ.

Mae and Colleen worked for Silas Boone, and he kept a cheap house, preferring lots of custom over bored girls and empty rooms. 'Keep the boys coming back and the girls on their backs' was his motto. As a philosophy, it wasn't as spiritual as it was practical. Still, it served.

I spun around: the room was so empty, I wasn't even in it.

akeru. It means "to pierce, to open, to end, to make a hole in, to start, to expire, to unwrap, to turn over." When someone leaves, akeru refers to the empty space that is created, the opening in which a new beginning can take place. I was amazed at the power of a single word that could suggest that to begin and to end are the same—part of one never-ending cycle of renewal and healing. I

Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.

What should I feel after carving my bones? peeling off my skin? after sculpted my soul and damaging my fervour, just as the way you desire your appetite must be.Abandoned, forsaken, empty, perhaps..

Love hurts. Love is fragile. Love comes like a breath of magic, then departs leaving us feeling empty, alone, a paper cup blowing on the wind.

Ritual observance without moral rectitude is worse than empty; it is a counterfeit religious coin with which a worshipper wishes to procure divine and human approval for behavior that deserves censure (see Isa. 58:3–7).

I hear the sound of my blood rushing out and I open my eyes to see it on the floor like ink and I watch as I end before I am empty.

Philosophy is a hallow bone with no flesh on it

spiritual Christians no longer wish affiliation with the ways of Fundamentalism, which often leaves the individual empty handed and with an empty heart.

Very often people abroad see us talking about our free education as some sort of empty political slogan but in fact it is a reality and a priority. (Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader, 2000)

Her face looked like the bottom of a dried up creek bed after a drought

In their years in Sugar Run, Texas, Tootsie and Smokey Colbert had had so many neighbors that they'd lost count. One by one, families in the four other houses on their block had moved in and moved away. Now, all were sitting empty.

If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there's nothing lost. - Michael Dunlop

I suffered the usual post–collective experience letdown. Sure, I was relieved. Field school was concluded without any disasters of note, and now I could focus on Emma's skeleton. But the students' departure also left me feeling dismally empty. The kids could be exasperating, no question. The unending hubbub. The clowning. The inattention. But my students were also energizing, bursting with enthusiasm, and lousy with youth.

How magnificent the city is by the June moonlight! — after the streets are empty and silent.

Where was it written that I, child of no one, deserved such joy? It only happened at night, this abyss of dread, never during the day. Only in the empty hours between today and yesterday, when I was alone with my sleeping lover and the weight of the past crept upon me like a reproachful ghost.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki said, "The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities." People enjoying so-called beginner's luck prove this all the time.