#empty

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#empty stomach #failing #full #groans #human

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#christmas #claus #empty #fireplace #going

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. ↗

— Hedda Hopper

#deals #empty #fall #favor #most

I talk to God but the sky is empty. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#god #i #sky #talk

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body. ↗

— Saadi

#belly #body #empty #full #spirit

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man. ↗

— Robert Ley

#does #empty #ideals #joy #life

Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#because #blank #empty #exactly #house

There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a word. No questions, no asking why, just quietly lay there with you, observing the stars, until you're ready to get back up on your feet again and walk the last bit home, softly holding your hand as a quiet way of saying “I'm here”. It was a beautiful night. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#empty-streets #free #friendship #love #night

On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#empty #need #numb #dreams

It's hard to know exactly how many empty houses there are...the census placed the figure, in the United States, in 2000, at about 10.5 million housing units (including apartments, counting duplexes as two, and so forth). For comparison: less than a quarter million people lived in homeless shelters in 2000. ↗

— Shay Salomon

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