Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Roberts

President Ronald Reagan used to speak of the Soviet constitution, and he noted that it purported to grant wonderful rights of all sorts to people. But those rights were empty promises, because that system did not have an independent judiciary to uphold the rule of law and enforce those rights.

Joanna Baillie

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

Allen Ginsberg

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 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.

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.

Sasha Cohen

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.

Sasha Cohen

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

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.

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

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Empty threats are often worse than saying nothing at all. It's like leading from behind. Eventually, no one thinks you're leading at all. And after a while, no one is even listening.

Doug Larson

A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Fullness is always quiet; agitation will answer for empty vessels only.

Conrad Burns

We must not let our guard down and let our enemy know we have an empty holster, so to speak.

We had a lot of pressure on us after going undefeated (in the regular season) last year. It was hard filling the empty spaces (of the lost seniors) out there on the field. It was hard to find people that have the natural passion to be a leader. Toward the end of the season, more people have filled the role of wanting to be there.

Ricardo Semler

In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested.

Betty Williams

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Eileen Caddy

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.

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

Charles Churchill

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

Jim Parrack

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.

Charles Spurgeon

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

Ann Voskamp

I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.

Brent Weeks

Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

Brent Weeks

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

Edmund White

I guess I felt I was lucky because history just happened to hand me all these empty niches, and it did fuel me. It is always exciting when you tap into some new subject matter.

Ibrahim Rugova

If we don't have an international force there, there will be an empty Kosovo, and that is what the extremists in Belgrade want.

Linda Lingle

If we had to evacuate 500,000 people today, we couldn't do it. We don't have 500,000 places. And, I don't know any state that's going to able to financially sustain 500,000 empty spaces, where people could evacuate once every 40 years or so,