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Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.

God's love supply is never empty.

Living in memories is an empty gesture.

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

None are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves.

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

My soul is an empty carousel at sunset.

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the closer I get to death the earlier I arrive, the longer I am content to wait, perhaps to give myself the false sensation that there is too much time rather than not enough.

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

The empty nest is underrated.

They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").

Now that im older i'm more aware of things that make me feel complete as a person. I'm trying to concentrate on those things as opposed to things that make feel empty

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

This be an empty world without the blues.

It's no fun to protest on an empty stomach.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all.

I seldom feel comfortable in a theatre. I always feel like I own a cinema. I feel equally happy in an empty one as a full one. Probably happier in an empty one!

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

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

I'll be your mess,you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste Gas masks,gloves,to keep us safe But now i'm alone in an empty room Staring down immaculate doom "Messy

A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A place like that cries out to be conquered and civilised.

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

And if the Four Seasons and the (proposed 55-story) Gulf projects get built in downtown, they'll be in the $650 to $750 (per square foot) range. Most of our buyers love to visit LoDo but don't want to live by a bunch of bars that empty out at 2 a.m. They prefer the quiet of this neighborhood but only being a few minutes from downtown.

And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelenessness and despair, such as I had now t

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

Death is the room that is always empty.

He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

The logistics of campaigning when the people live in Houston and Memphis ... would be an incredibly expensive campaign. This is an empty city, a city without people.

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.

Free will is an empty term.

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.

An open mind but not an empty head.

This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren’t as devastated.

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.

For the first time [with the Bible] - I know this sounds so corny - but I knew love. I had such an empty love tank. I had all the questions to life that didn't make sense. Two and two didn't add up to four. From my father's death - if you loved me, why did you leave me? Why did you kill yourself? And so when this happened, it took my life in a completely different direction.

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

He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.

I tried. Can't do it. Brain's empty.

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind.

In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

But finding these 16 warheads just raises a basic question: Where are the other 29,984? Because that is how many empty chemical warheads the U.N. Special Commission estimated he had - and he has never accounted for.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know - to be loved.

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Speaking of [Colin] Kaepernick, did you see what [Barack] Obama said about Kaepernick? I mean this was the biggest dodge I have ever seen. This may have been the most vacuous or empty statement on anything, because Obama clearly wanted to agree with Kaepernick but couldn't.

The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.

Canada is a vast and empty country.

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.

Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes from the Federal Triangle. I have a sewer map, and on it you can see the pipe from which congressional wastes empty into the river that then flows through the black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. It is very expensive to do anything about the river, but somebody's working on it.

You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.

When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.

Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into a hole. "It's you." "You were expecting someone else?" I asked. "Am I interrupting your social calender?" I made a big show of glancing around the empty room. "I don't want to keep you from the mob of fans beating down your door." "Hey, a guy can hope. I mean, it's not impossible that a car full of scantily clad sorority girls might break down outside and need my help.

Only what?” I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. “Only… more human.” And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. “Get out,” I said.

A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.