Empty Quotes - Page 10

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.

Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.

… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!

The military and the clergy cause us much annoyance; the clergy and the military, they empty our wallets and rob our intelligence.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Johnny, can't you come out to play in your empty garden?

Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.

Nothingness is an absolute infinite potential, not an empty box.

I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty.

Something has to matter. Otherwise, a person's life will be miserable and empty.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.

Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into a hole. "It's you." "You were expecting someone else?" I asked. "Am I interrupting your social calender?" I made a big show of glancing around the empty room. "I don't want to keep you from the mob of fans beating down your door." "Hey, a guy can hope. I mean, it's not impossible that a car full of scantily clad sorority girls might break down outside and need my help.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.