Empty Quotes - page 46

How would you have us, as we are? Or sinking 'neath the load we bear? Our eyes fixed forward on a star? Or gazing empty at despair? (James Weldon Johnson)
I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house. View quote
Jared Leto
Brian has compared presenting The World at One to high diving into an empty pool, and hoping it will be filled before you reach the bottom. View quote
Brian Hanrahan
I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged. View quote
Peter Brook
But my father he didn't read moon, he didn't speak moon, and he didn't write moon. So there was no letter found next to his body in the garage when he chose to leave this place on purpose without saying where he was goin' or why. There are still days you can catch me tape-recording eternal silence and playing it backwards for an empty room just so I can listen to his dying wish. Shh. View quote
Buddy Wakefield
The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words "All Men" exclude a vast number of citizens. View quote
Colson Whitehead
Anyone who truly wants to escape human solipsism should not seek out empty places. Instead of fleeing to the desert, where they will be thrown back into their own thoughts, they will do better to seek the company of other animals. A zoo is a better window from which to look out of the human world than a monastery. View quote
John N. Gray
Teachers and pop icons, empty drums beat loudest noise. We swap their quotes and CDs like children trading toys. Follow along, bite the barbed hook deep in our jaw... View quote
Dawud Wharnsby
I have not thought that it stood in need of an empty hypothesis, like those subjects which are occult and dubious... as, for example, with regard to things above us. View quote
Hippocrates
Lay hold on Christ with both your poor, empty hands. View quote
Elizabeth Prentiss
I thought that prattling boys and girls Would fill this empty room; That my rich heart would gather flowers From childhood's opening bloom. One child and two green graves are mine, This is God's gift to me; A bleeding, fainting, broken heart- This is my gift to Thee. (Elizabeth Prentiss)
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. View quote
David Bowie
Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. View quote
Joseph Joubert
the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being. View quote
Matsuo Bashō
No empty handed man can lure a bird. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty. View quote
Oswald Spengler
The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry-what am I?-is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
How was it that words, so often spoken and lost in the air like the empty chiming of bells, were changed into actions? The answer is easy. Action, the continuous action, ceaselessly renewed, of minorities brings about this transformation. View quote
Peter Kropotkin
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. View quote
Francis Quarles
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness But the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty. View quote
Eric Hoffer
O glory of commanding! O vain thirst Of that same empty nothing we call fame! View quote
Luís de Camões
I can see this, I suppose you could call it, aura of colors that words can't describe around living things. And when something dies the aura fades leaving something that's not easy to look at. It appears empty in a way that makes you feel empty too! View quote
Mark Waid