I Am Empty Quotes
Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.
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.
When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.
At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.
The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.
When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.
What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.
I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.
I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws.
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.
Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.
It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.
People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.
The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.
If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.
Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.
By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.
Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.
Drink your wine. Laugh from your gut. Burden your moments with thankfulness. Be as empty as you can be when that clock winds down. Spend your life. And if time is a river, may you leave a wake.
When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.
even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.