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Quotes About Empty

A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank.
~ Author Unknown
I had a secret... It was on the tip of my tongue, taking up all the room in my brain, cupped in both my empty hands.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
It, too, was empty. You might think that would be a given at this hour, but the preserve was a favorite haunt of birdwatchers, and those people are crazy.
~ Jacqueline Carey
They're empty! All the cubicles are empty. The middle class is being hollowed out." And I took a closer look. Entire floors were dark. Or there were floors with one or two cubicles occupied, but the rest empty. "It's all outsourced, or technology has taken over for the paper shufflers," he explained.
~ James Altucher
Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
~ James Clavell
The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb, but rather the empty grave clothes - undisturbed in form and position.
~ Josh McDowell
The future is terrifying because it's full of stuff, not because it's empty.
~ Alexis Hall, For Real
Papers, Always Welcome you with an Emty space to full it, they wont judge or Mind...
~ Khaireddine Safwane
Saddam Hussein has set an example of defiance, especially against the first President Bush, that other Arab leaders cannot and should not emulate; the example leads only to empty gestures and developmental stagnation, both of which the Arab nations have had enough of already.
~ Ehud Barak
A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
~ Luigi Pirandello
I'm sad when I see San Siro with empty stands.
~ Marco van Basten
He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.
~ Robert Ley
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
~ Washington Irving
Coffee makes me invincible. But when the cup is empty, I return to mere mortal.
~ Terri Guillemets
This grace of light has been given to me during my retreat. Our Lord desires that we should receive Him into our hearts, and no doubt they are empty of creatures. Alas! mine is not empty of self; that is why He bids me come down. And I shall come down even to the very ground, that Jesus may find within my heart a resting-place for His Divine Head
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.
~ Thomas a Kempis
a ship without ballast is tossed hither and thither on the sea, so the chariot, without its accustomed weight, was dashed about as if empty. They
~ Thomas Bulfinch
Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House.
~ Diane Cilento
The German journalists still ring me and ask me to come back because without me their newspapers are empty - but I'm happy for that.
~ Marko Arnautovic
This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs.
~ Colum McCann
To yield is to be preserved whole.To be bent is to become straight.To be empty is to be full.To be worn out is to be renewed.To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.
~ Lao Tzu
And before me the empty table at the Theater Café with my reservation - Barnum Nilsen, 8PM - the only table no one sits at. And this too is an echo, an echo of time, the shadows of a discus spinning through blinding sunlight.
~ Lars Saabye Christensen
Hell didn't burn. And the only devils to be found were the ones you find on earth, and there were too many of those, and they looked like everybody else. Hell, though. Hell was empty. Hell was nowhere. A dead silent plain of echoes and dust and empty arms rocking. Of dead boys shot down over vast, cold oceans. Where people didn't even care enough about you to hate you. Where the people who'd promised to love you forgot your name. Hell was cold. The coldest place in the universe.
~ Laura Ruby