Vacuums Quotes

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

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

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

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.

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

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.

It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.

God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

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.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

As pissed as a fart in a vacuum cleaner.

A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

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