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If they don't get everything on the first round, we're asking people to pick up what's left and put it in the empty can. We're catching up.

Many of the residents of adult housing sold their houses that they've lived in for so many years because they find it exhausting and expensive to maintain a large and empty household.

Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives.

There are people we wonder about but don't make attempts to contact. Perhaps we're afraid of empty conversations with someone or perhaps we're curious about someone whose life we watched for awhile from afar. Sometimes it's just been too long and sometimes we can't even articulate the need to know whatever happened to them. Where are they? Did they make it? Are they happy? Are they passionate about something in their lives? Are they anything like the people we once knew?

There are two big market segments driving downtown residential: the young professionals and the empty nesters. We've had a very low number of empty nesters.

Let's say, 100 years ago, I'm not sure how many people had to empty out their relatives' homes; they just stayed in the same house, because they lived there. Nowadays, almost everyone, at least once in their life, somehow, has to deal with this experience.

Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado.

Single men and women who go home to an empty apartment or a dog or cat or child need adult conversation in their lives.

Since the early 90s, we have been a decentralized company, focusing on 21 separate businesses, ... While this structure was innovative and successful for our company then, it is time to dismantle the castle walls and empty the moats.

Mitch has been out for a week and has had mono for three weeks. He practiced (Wednesday) for the first time in over a week. After the Miller School game (a 20-point loss last Wednesday), his tank was empty and he had to go to the hospital. He came out (tonight) and played his heart out. He's the glue that holds the team together.

Moving targets, ever-shifting theories, each one advanced to replace the last as it has fallen, fallen victim to the facts, ... Empty pots. Attractive containers, but when you take the lid off, you'll find nothing to sustain you.

She loved life, she lived every day to the fullest, and she was just coming into her own. She had just found her purpose. She discovered her love of helping people. I'm empty - that's the best feeling I have right now.

When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.

Let's have no empty talk from this assembly, let's get something done.

Make sure there's a designated driver or get a cab. Never drink alone or on an empty stomach and don't drink to get drunk. People say that takes the fun out of drinking but that's the rule that psychiatrists and substance abuse programs use.

L. R. H. in Clearing Procedure, 1957:"The work was free. Keep it so."Therefore, although we have no such stature as the Great Philosophies, I charge you with this - look to source writings, not to interpretations. Look to the original work, not offshoots. If I have fought for a quarter of a century, most of it alone, to keep this work from serving to uphold the enslavers of Man, to keep it free from some destructive "pitch" or slant, then you certainly can carry that motif a little further. I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.

So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said.

Second to none...People wanna live downtown. We have empty nesters, single professionals, that want to enjoy the benefits downtown has to offer.

seven years of empty promises, of following the wrong policies, or of not seeing things through.

She says she can't do both the pageant and the operetta. But she's right across the empty lot at the store. She'll keep a sharp eye out, you can believe.

I'm very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn't possibly think of yourself... Good evening!

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

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

An empty man is full of himself.

Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

Kids consume so many empty calories today. We wanted to take a sweet treat that kids will eat a lot of anyway and make it healthier and lower in calories.

There are so many names that will be shouted today. It is so empty where someone is missing.

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.

If builders were thinking of empty sales offices, they clearly would not be raising prices by an average of $4,300. It's a demonstration that builders are not seeing anything out there that scares them.

God is dead! Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.

I felt I was in clear. I thought I had an empty net when he took me down.

I'm a parent. We all want great futures for our kids. The after-school program helps to provide that for these kids. Otherwise many of them would go home to empty homes because their parents have to work.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.

When he was a kid growing up around minor league teams, it wasn't a good business model. It was old rickety stands, empty seats. When it's run properly in the right market, today it's a great business model.

He's a big goalie, and it's tough to find empty spots on him. It doesn't seem like the other teams are and that's a big plus for our hockey team.

What we expect to get out of this is the declaration that the coup was wrong and that the rights of the petitioners were violated. No matter what happens on Tuesday, the election is going to be an empty exercise, unless the international community respects the Haitian voters' decision.

We then use the empty containers that we off load and fill them back up with cotton from the United States and send it to China.

He wasn't allowed to go anywhere one day, so he ran circles in an empty lot at his house. He just ran around and around. That's the type of thing that allowed him to be as good as he got.

I abandoned fiction for playwriting then for a number of years before taking it up again to write The Beautiful Room Is Empty in the mid-1960s.

He was extremely talented, but in a different way. His images are very vivid. He used empty space in an extremely artistic way. He was not so much looking at the history of art. He looked at the images of movies and advertising. He was not looking backwards, but he was always looking at the present in a way nobody had done before.

If we look at the nation that President Bush leads, it also behaves in many ways like an addict. The United States is a gigantic John Candy of a country, straining its oversized elasticated pants from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The country is addicted to more or less everything, constantly craving greater and greater quantities of petrol, electricity, pointless sports, empty patriotism, fatty hormone-crammed meat, gigantic pedestrian-crushing four-wheel drive trucks, ever more baseball caps with nonsense written on them and unquestioning obedience from every nation on the planet.

There are one or two shops open. The marketplace is empty it is normally packed with hundreds of people. The only food people have is what they have at home.

If I said yes, it would be an empty promise.

I finally got the chance to empty my bench. It was a tremendous joy to do that, and it was like a burden had been lifted off our back.

Whatever purpose confirmation hearings may have, this is clearly not the purpose. You have nominees talking like politicians, giving empty sound bites.

I watch and I cry. I feel so bad. We can't get them out of there, those little babies with empty bottles.

Some LTL companies wait until they have a full load before dispatching a truck. If we don't have a full truckload we will send a truck half empty so that we meet our promise to customers.

Someone came up to me outside the gym after the game and said, you know, these girls will step up for you next year. Boy were they right. At the time, I heard what they said, but it was just an empty feeling and I didn't know if we'd ever have the opportunity again.

That empty chair ain't going to get any free ride, I'll tell you that.

Previous government inquiries into police violence against Egyptian protestors have consistently exonerated Interior Ministry officials. In this case the precipitous return of hundreds of victims and witnesses would make any investigation into the violence of December 30 an empty gesture.

I think everyone will still be there, I don't think there'll be an empty seat to be found. It just limits that we can't go out on that Friday.

Our guys were ready to play this game in an empty gym. But the atmosphere was electric.

I'm shooting the puck more, but I know I need a big weekend to get 50 in 50. Especially on the power play, goalies cheat to Rob's side because he shoots the puck a lot every game, so I'm looking at a lot of empty nets. With me, I'm usually passing, but you try to mix it up so the goalie doesn't know what you're going to do.

You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.

John Kerry's rhetoric on the campaign trail is hiding a long list of missed votes and empty promises on the issues he claims are priorities.

It is for people who have tried everything to feel that life is good. All the things that were supposed to make them happy left them empty inside.

I think the empty box will appeal strictly to the collectors rather than the 7-year-old kid who wants to leave the store with a Star Wars toy.

It is kind of an empty feeling. We will never know how good we could have been. We had a chance to get back to Birmingham, and we went to Troy and played the worst game we had played all season.

I think there are going to be a lot of empty nester types who don't want their 5,000-square-foot house anymore, don't have their kids in the house and are ready to travel.

I think there's always going to be a group of people who are willing to do that, especially as you get more empty nesters. In those households, the pet takes on incredible importance as a member of the family and people are willing to shell out incredible amounts of money to keep them healthy.

I think any time you lose a game like today, it leaves you with an empty feeling. We played a talented team and there is a reason why that team was 15-1 last year. We knew going in that it was going to take excellent execution on our part in all three phases of our team. Unfortunately we did not get that, we turned the ball over early.

Our problem is too many empty gates, not a congestion problem.

O! who shall lightly say that fame/ is nothing but an empty name?

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports.

I was the only one working at the time. I was changing a tire when the man started cursing. The next thing I knew, he was up on me and I was looking down the barrel of a shotgun. He demanded us to empty our pockets on the ground.

I think if there's a vacancy like that, hopefully it will make bands get more creative, and turn up, as they did in the old days, in empty warehouses and just impromptu showcases that are word-of-mouth and flyer-oriented. Hopefully it can be a good thing. But I'll miss that place.

It felt a little empty with her not here. Michelle has always been a big part of the event. I miss competing with her. It really doesn't feel like the Nationals.

It feels empty because it was an opportunity wasted for us.

Ken Blackwell refuses to debate, once again demonstrating his reliance on negative attacks and empty rhetoric.

I think we are going to come out flying and smoke them and prove to everyone how good our team actually is. We didn't sacrifice this much and work so hard to come home empty handed.

It is a little empty without her here but I have my own things to worry about.

It is a little weird without her here. It's kind of like me and all these little girls. It's a little empty without her here, but I've got some of my own things to worry about right now.

It hurts. I haven't slept or eaten since the accident. It seems every time you walk down the hall, there's an empty space.

I think it was well-known what the federal government was and was not willing to do. And the city went ahead with the message of open arms. We should have taken the next step of due diligence and prepared accordingly. Not invite, or tacitly invite, people and not be ready for them. It bespeaks of an empty promise, ... The Mayor's Office is extremely savvy at spin and public relations. This was an incident where they saw an opportunity and ran with it from a PR perspective, and it got a lot of people excited. Where it left off was in its ability to plug people in so something good could come to fruition.

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs -- when I was 17 -- that I realized I was talking through an empty skull, ... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

I think we did a poor job executing our press offense. We had four empty possessions to start the third and they went on a run.

I think it is important to look at older empty buildings in town and find a use for them.

I think it's down, because my first year or two my mailbox was so full they were putting it in an empty mailbox near mine. They haven't had to do that this year.

It certainly was a big difference the last 48 hours. We were a little worried that with our schedule the boys would be a little empty in the gas tank, but they found some saved-up energy. But that's why we believe we're one of the best-conditioned teams. I think it pays off in games like tonight.

I thought when we were down 1-0, we had an opportunity on the power play. We had an empty net and missed it. That was probably the biggest chance we had in the game. We have to be able to score on those chances.

We had one where he was a little upset. He thought he was being encouraged, in one of the establishments, because the bar maid was giving him an empty beer bottle to use as an ashtray. Otherwise, they take their tickets and stub their cigarettes and take it like anything else.

Though this was certainly unexpected, all the reports we've gotten back say there is no threat to anyone. We were glad to learn the tank was empty and there are no environmental concerns. Anyone who has or had a child playing on the field shouldn't be concerned about toxins.

We have to look at this as a payback game. They came into our house ? and granted, it was an empty house ? and beat us. Maybe I'll go down there and rent some fans.

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

The Absolute Truth of Knowledge is precisely non-Knowledge. If this Mirror called Knowledge remains in the phase where nothing is reflected in it, then it does not have a Self anymore, it does not have any element, is as empty and sterile as if it were not. Thus the Mirror is non-Knowledge more than it is Knowledge and becomes Knowledge only when other Prints of the Matrix Words reflect in it.

The 28 bags are all empty -- to put all his parts in after the fight.

Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it.

That whole area is going to be developed in the next 10 or 15 years. Three or four years ago, we never thought we would need two new schools out there, but now every empty piece of property in Manatee is being developed.

We needed that park developed. The land sat empty a good while because of a lack of money. Bill was instrumental in pushing for the money to equip it. He was just a fine gentleman, a real upstanding citizen.