#empty

Omitting the section of the Pledge that affirms these beliefs strips the message of its meaning. More than any political connotation, this is why the Pledge of Allegiance is more than incomplete without the words 'under God' and 'indivisible.' It is also empty. ↗

— Dan Coats

#allegiance #also #any #beliefs #connotation

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#empty #heartbreak #picoult #rage #secret

Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass. ↗

— Evan Davis

#amount #cent #country #does #empty

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#empty #idle #importance #selfish #stuck-up

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen? ↗

— Lukas Foss

#empty #happen #how #i #i do

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty. ↗

— Boy George

#everyone #felt #got #i #knew

I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot. It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#empty #heaven #death

To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast. ↗

— Lee Haney

#aspect #beautiful #empty #far #fast

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#empty #empty stomach #fear #fierce #hunger

The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don’t even show. All I do is sign the canvas and try to sell it. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#canvas #conceptual-art #empty #funny #humor