Vacuums Quotes - Page 2

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

I don’t have a problem with men disposing of their genitals, but it does not make them women, in the same way that shoving a bit of vacuum hose down your 501s does not make you a man.

Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some nature hindering species, and resisting it, but because of the lack of a nature suitable for the multiplication of species; for species is a natural thing, and therefore needs a natural medium; but in a vacuum nature does not exist.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."

All you have to do is see the way ISIS was created in the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama out of Iraq.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.