#empty

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

— Michael Bloomberg

#empty stomach #fun #protest #stomach

All phenomena are empty. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#phenomena

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ↗

— Lord Byron

#go #i #mad #mind #write

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. ↗

— Demosthenes

#action #empty #speech #unless #vain

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#cannot #compete #dominance #empty #her

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play. ↗

— Anna Friel

#become #board #certain #effect #empty

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. ↗

— Washington Irving

#come #empty #end #hollow #keeping

…they speak great swelling words of emptiness… ↗

— 2 Peter 2 18

#food-for-thought #ible #peter #speaking #think-before-you-speak

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit. ↗

— Edmund White

#crying #ecological #empty #even #far

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#full #none #themselves #those #who