Quotes with empty-handed

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  • Anna Freud We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Barbara Jordan We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Cass Sunstein We live in a period in which political disagreements are routinely handed over to the courts. Whenever you think that the president is wrong, you might well cry out that he has violated the Constitution - and ask federal judges to rule accordingly.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Asa Gray We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Michelangelo What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • George W. Bush When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.
    Source: Tijdens een meeting met vier senatoren, 13 sept. 2001
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Bessie Smith When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.
    Bessie Smith
     
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  • Saadi When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Stephen Hawking Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Corrie Ten Boom Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • Corrie ten Boom Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
    Corrie ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Billie Holiday Yes, the strong gets more
    While the weak ones fade
    Empty pockets don't ever make the grade
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    Source: God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Lord John Reith You can't think rationally on an empty stomach, and a whole lot of people can't do it on a full stomach either.
    Lord John Reith
    British BBC director (1899 - 1971)
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  • Bob Dylan You prayed to the Lord above
    Oh please send you a friend
    Your empty pockets tell yuh
    That you ain't a-got no friend
    Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ben Wheatley You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you've spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • George Orwell You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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