Quotes with empty-headed

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  • Seneca The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • William Shakespeare The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Arthur Erickson The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Boris Johnson The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
    The least said about Lib Dems, the better, Daily Telegraph, 25 September 2003, p. 24.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Bernard Williams The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Aneurin Bevan The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Malcolm Forbes The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Eric Hoffer The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Aleister Crowley The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Brenda Ueland The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • William Cobbett The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Donald H. Mcgannon The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Joseph Conrad There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Aaron Sorkin There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Mark Twain There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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