#empty

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

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If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it? ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. ↗

— Amelia Barr

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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. ↗

— Emma Thompson

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Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

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Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God. ↗

— John Buchan

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Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. ↗

— Homer

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I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

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