Top 280 Empty Quotes

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

There is always a sacred hour in the theatre – after rehearsals and before performances, in the afternoon, between three and five o’clock. Normally the theatre is empty then, and this is a wonderful hour.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Maybe our best family trip started at Victoria Falls, which drenches you with spray and is so vast that it makes Niagara Falls seem like a backyard creek. Then we rented a car and made our way to Hwange National Park, which was empty of people but crowded with zebras, giraffes, elephants and more.

Yes, I do go to movies with my female friends. But I make sure there is an empty seat between us. That seat will only be filled by my wife whenever she comes in my life.

Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty it.

The good news, when you write with another, is that you never have an empty page in front of you. The bad news is… you never have an empty page in front of you.

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.

If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That’s not why people come to church. They want to hear the word of God being proclaimed, not the word of Robert Jeffress.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

After the World Cup, the next two or three days there is a lot of celebration, a lot of obligation, towards the country, towards the French Federation, towards the fans. And then, after that, you feel so empty – mentally and physically. It’s a long tournament; it demands a lot of energy and a lot of emotion.

I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it – it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative.

We have two options – to continue living in poverty and empty promises or build a Belarus that we deserve.

If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we’re going to have a lot of empty museums.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

I’ve led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.

Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don’t just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.

8chan is an empty piece of paper for writing on.

People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don’t study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it’s because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

It’s one of those weird things where I’m always curious about what’s next. It’s not just an empty restlessness, I try to appreciate things as they’re going along and in the moment, but when things are good, I’m always anxious about how I can better that or take it on further.

In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco’s office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is – where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I have to admit that the empty prestige and the stupid glory – yes, the horrible rush, the deadly sense of importance that war brings to life – are hard illusions to shake off. Look at me, a war correspondent.

In the early ’90s or so, I drove my father to Providence, Ky., his hometown, and he was pointing out, ‘That’s where the doctor’s office was,’ and ‘That’s where we bought ice cream.’ And he was pointing to empty lots. When you lose communities, what do you have? We often survive by remembering the stories.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

Consumerism is the reason Christmas has morphed into a hollow shopping ritual that leaves too many families with debt hangovers and an empty feeling inside.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

For years, I meant to read ‘Arabian Sands’, Wilfred Thesiger’s account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia’s Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.

In the morning, I know everyone has two things: an empty stomach and a fresh brain.

If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.

I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I’ll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites.

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

I feel like these days, people want to escape and let go when they’re watching movies. They want to empty their minds when resting.

An empty book is like an infant’s soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.

We are tired of Obama’s empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric.

Onboarding starts with satisfying the most basic of Maslow’s psychological needs: belonging. New hires shouldn’t arrive to an empty cube and be forced to forage through corridors searching for a computer and the bare necessities of office life. A new hire isn’t a surprise visitor from out of town. Plan for their arrival.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

I love walking into an empty room and imagining what it could be.

Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat’s point of view, shelters would be empty.

I’ve seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn’t stink. But if you’re empty and manipulative on stage, it’s clear.

Nobody should be forced to face evil with empty hands.

I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own ‘inventions.’

Like everybody, you get nights where you feel completely depressed. You start thinking about all the bad things and think about the glass half empty – instead of half full. There’s no explanation for it.

Here’s the thing – if you want to do good things in the world, there’s just only so much time that one can spend being glass half empty.