Quotes with empty-handed

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  • Alan K. Simpson Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Bjorn Borg Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Bret Harte Beneath this tree lies the body of John Oakhurst, who struck a streak of bad luck on the 23rd of November, 1850, and handed in his checks on the 7th December, 1850.
    Source: The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869)
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Peggy Noonan Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Diana Black Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space.
    Diana Black
     
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  • Alan Watts But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Buddha Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the goo
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • William Carlos Williams Empty pockets make empty heads.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Bono Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • George Sand Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Archimedes Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
    Archimedes
    Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer (287 - 212)
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  • Harry S. Truman Give me a one-handed economist! All my economics say, ''On the one hand… on the other.''
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Carole King He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
    Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
    Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
    And his hand come down empty...
    Source: Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Eric Hoffer How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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