Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zhuangzi

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

Shunryu Suzuki

From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

Bertrand Russell

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.

Alan Dean Foster

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

Karlheinz Stockhausen

As I say, this is a new secret science, to master the emptiness and turn it into something that is filled with sound and visual images.

Carlos Castaneda

Theres no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.

Simone Weil

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

Thomas Carlyle

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Rumi

There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should....

E. O. Wilson

It had her performing stripping, touching herself, things of that nature.

Richard P. Feynman

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Reinhold Messner

I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....

William Wordsworth

"One impulse from a vernal wood

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Louv

Research suggests that exposure to the natural world - including nearby nature in cities - helps improve human health, well-being, and intellectual capacity in ways that science is only recently beginning to understand.

Richard Louv

Numerous studies document the benefits to students from school grounds that are ecologically diverse and include free play areas, habitats for wildlife, walking trails, and gardens.

Sean Collins

I had no idea there was any speculation whatsoever. None of the Wisconsin players complained afterward, so I didn't know what they were talking about. I had no idea it was off.

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

Julien Pain

We sent letters, we tried to phone them. And none of them ever replied to us.

Adam Rayner

I've done shows that aired on American TV, but none of them proved to be successful, so yes, no one here knows who I am.

Joseph Cook

None of them had anything new to say,

Daniel Johnston

None of the alternatives, ... are even close.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Cristiana Salvi

Twelve (people) are still in hospital, but none of them are in severe condition.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Tricia Helfer

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Randall Munroe

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

Bill Gates

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Alex Van Halen

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.

Alex Van Halen

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Thomas Harris

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

John Gotti

I ain't seen her in seven years, but she's a doll, a precious little kid.

Herodotus

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

David Duval

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

John Roberts

the most precious rights we have as Americans.

Sathya Baba

The treasure that is precious is the quality of even mindedness in all situations.

John Naisbitt

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

Judy Cornett

She worked backstage, and she was so precious to all of us. This is my first show without Pat.

David Peck

He took something very precious away from the world.

Lord of

My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

Michael Keaton

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

George E. Brown, Jr.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.