Empty Quotes - page 2

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. (Norman Vincent Peale)
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. View quote
Immanuel Kant
We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. View quote
Anna Freud
Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking. View quote
Bill Cosby
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. View quote
Stephen Hawking
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. View quote
Boris Johnson
Techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery. View quote
Karen Blixen
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. View quote
Malcolm Forbes
The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief's face. View quote
Juvenal
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. (George W. Bush)
I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach. View quote
William Cowper
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. View quote
Jonathan Swift
There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise. View quote
Terry Pratchett
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. View quote
Lord Byron
The World is so empty if one thinks only of the mountains, rivers, and cities but to know someone who thinks and feels with us,and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures. View quote
Wassily Kandinsky
If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life. (Billie Joe Armstrong)
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. View quote
Charles Simic
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer. View quote
Sherman Alexie
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword. View quote
Walter Scott