Empty Quotes - page 6

My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads. (Francis Bacon)
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means. View quote
John Calvin
Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself. View quote
John Calvin
A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile. View quote
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. View quote
African Spir
The tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies, and the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies. View quote
Bob Dylan
The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn. View quote
Bob Dylan
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. View quote
Stephen King
THE OCTOBER COUNTRY ...that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain... View quote
Ray Bradbury
He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality. (Henryk Sienkiewicz)
After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
The cold blast at the casement beats; The window-panes are white; The snow whirls through the empty streets; It is a dreary night! View quote
Epes Sargent
Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name. View quote
Ignatius of Loyola
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else. View quote
Dwight L. Moody
What is this eternity to me without you? What is the infinity of my domains? Empty ringing words, A spacious temple - without a divinity! View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
The little boy I watched throwing pebbles into the empty fountain [...] You could tell that he had too much wisdom for his age. Probably he believed that he wasn't made for this world. I wanted to say to him: If not you, who? View quote
Nicole Krauss
I stole a lot when I was a kid, but I wouldn't steal one candy; I'd take the whole carton. I also 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
It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy. View quote
Anatol Rapoport
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. (Hedda Hopper)
The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs. View quote
Mario Cuomo
I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind. View quote
Sarah Dessen
Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done. View quote
Sarah Dessen