I Am Empty Quotes

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.

The first time I ever saw your face, I thought the sun rose in your eyes and the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave to the dark and empty sky, my love.

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

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.

Pages of revelation lie open in your empty eyes of blue

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

We cannot even let the other person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.

Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

When you drop all your ideas, fantasies and projections about who you are and what freedom is and remain completely empty, this is freedom.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

the universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.

Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

And empty words are evil.

Fights aren't won in the octagon, they're won in the months leading up to them, in a near-empty gym, in the lost hours of a day, whether I feel like it or not.

Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.

I'm tired of going to an empty bedroom every night. I wish I had a girl I could cuddle with

When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.

You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.