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When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.

The power of the resurrection means that nothing but the tomb is meant to be empty.

Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.

I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat.

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

We hope your days ahead are as dark and empty as the hole you left in our hearts.

I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

We have places in the park where all that is left is the posts. Or, just empty holes.

When I was 11, I burned a field down by mistake. It was an empty field, probably about 10 acres in size. Me and my friend were lighting firecrackers, and we ended up burning down the entire field. We got found out, and I think I was grounded for about three months.

The outlook for most of the major gold mining companies is for static to lower production for 2006. With the new project pipeline in gold relatively empty and few major discoveries of gold made in the past decade, we do not expect this picture to change.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

Become empty to become complete, for it is the void that defines the form.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

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

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

An empty man is full of himself.

When you can sell [empty seats] at the gate for an upgrade for 500 bucks or 600 bucks... it makes all the sense in the world.

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

There are two big market segments driving downtown residential: the young professionals and the empty nesters. We've had a very low number of empty nesters.

There are people we wonder about but don't make attempts to contact. Perhaps we're afraid of empty conversations with someone or perhaps we're curious about someone whose life we watched for awhile from afar. Sometimes it's just been too long and sometimes we can't even articulate the need to know whatever happened to them. Where are they? Did they make it? Are they happy? Are they passionate about something in their lives? Are they anything like the people we once knew?

Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel-mine and coming out with empty hands

L. R. H. in Clearing Procedure, 1957:"The work was free. Keep it so."Therefore, although we have no such stature as the Great Philosophies, I charge you with this - look to source writings, not to interpretations. Look to the original work, not offshoots. If I have fought for a quarter of a century, most of it alone, to keep this work from serving to uphold the enslavers of Man, to keep it free from some destructive "pitch" or slant, then you certainly can carry that motif a little further. I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.

Make sure there's a designated driver or get a cab. Never drink alone or on an empty stomach and don't drink to get drunk. People say that takes the fun out of drinking but that's the rule that psychiatrists and substance abuse programs use.

Let's have no empty talk from this assembly, let's get something done.

Let's say, 100 years ago, I'm not sure how many people had to empty out their relatives' homes; they just stayed in the same house, because they lived there. Nowadays, almost everyone, at least once in their life, somehow, has to deal with this experience.

Leaders have dashed hopes and squandered opportunities, and empty promises cost lives.

Many of the residents of adult housing sold their houses that they've lived in for so many years because they find it exhausting and expensive to maintain a large and empty household.

seven years of empty promises, of following the wrong policies, or of not seeing things through.

Second to none...People wanna live downtown. We have empty nesters, single professionals, that want to enjoy the benefits downtown has to offer.

So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said.

She says she can't do both the pageant and the operetta. But she's right across the empty lot at the store. She'll keep a sharp eye out, you can believe.

Since the early 90s, we have been a decentralized company, focusing on 21 separate businesses, ... While this structure was innovative and successful for our company then, it is time to dismantle the castle walls and empty the moats.

Single men and women who go home to an empty apartment or a dog or cat or child need adult conversation in their lives.

She loved life, she lived every day to the fullest, and she was just coming into her own. She had just found her purpose. She discovered her love of helping people. I'm empty - that's the best feeling I have right now.

Mitch has been out for a week and has had mono for three weeks. He practiced (Wednesday) for the first time in over a week. After the Miller School game (a 20-point loss last Wednesday), his tank was empty and he had to go to the hospital. He came out (tonight) and played his heart out. He's the glue that holds the team together.

Mr. Obama would be a disheartening president even during a super boom, with his grim demeanor and empty rhetoric, as well as his obvious hatred of business bravado.

Moving targets, ever-shifting theories, each one advanced to replace the last as it has fallen, fallen victim to the facts, ... Empty pots. Attractive containers, but when you take the lid off, you'll find nothing to sustain you.

My friends and I are debating about optimism, whether the glass is half empty or half full.....Well it really doesnt make a difference to me since all my glasses are paper cups.

One thing that I think it helps to keep in mind if you're just the average consumer is that the worst nightmare for a hotel manager is to have an empty room because it generates no revenue.

Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

Now you worship His Form, you repeat His name; ignoring His orders. Without practicing the discipline laid down by Rama to purify the mind, all else is mere show, empty rituals.

Nobody wants to see empty seats, because our student athletes deserve the crowds we used to have 20, 25 years ago. We don't want to do anything to hinder crowd participation.

I was feeling very weird out there today. In general, I was just felt very empty out there today. All of a sudden I was going for wide backhands, felt no power in my legs to push off and to create the power that you have to create.

I was feeling very weird out there today in general. I was feeling very empty out there.

I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all their stuff there, and we have to empty the houses out. She provides a great service.

I was surprised at some of the things I saw. There were a lot more empty lots on the map.

I wouldn't consider it wasted. I feel empty because it was clearly an opportunity for us. And it's rife for all sorts of second-guessing. And I'm my own worst critic. It will be one those weekends.

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!

I guess I felt I was lucky because history just happened to hand me all these empty niches, and it did fuel me. It is always exciting when you tap into some new subject matter.

If we don't have an international force there, there will be an empty Kosovo, and that is what the extremists in Belgrade want.

If we had to evacuate 500,000 people today, we couldn't do it. We don't have 500,000 places. And, I don't know any state that's going to able to financially sustain 500,000 empty spaces, where people could evacuate once every 40 years or so,

If they don't get everything on the first round, we're asking people to pick up what's left and put it in the empty can. We're catching up.

I'm a parent. We all want great futures for our kids. The after-school program helps to provide that for these kids. Otherwise many of them would go home to empty homes because their parents have to work.

I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

I felt I was in clear. I thought I had an empty net when he took me down.

I finally got the chance to empty my bench. It was a tremendous joy to do that, and it was like a burden had been lifted off our back.

If I said yes, it would be an empty promise.

If builders were thinking of empty sales offices, they clearly would not be raising prices by an average of $4,300. It's a demonstration that builders are not seeing anything out there that scares them.

I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat.

God is dead! Heaven is empty - Weep, children, you no longer have a father.

If we look at the nation that President Bush leads, it also behaves in many ways like an addict. The United States is a gigantic John Candy of a country, straining its oversized elasticated pants from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The country is addicted to more or less everything, constantly craving greater and greater quantities of petrol, electricity, pointless sports, empty patriotism, fatty hormone-crammed meat, gigantic pedestrian-crushing four-wheel drive trucks, ever more baseball caps with nonsense written on them and unquestioning obedience from every nation on the planet.

Whatever purpose confirmation hearings may have, this is clearly not the purpose. You have nominees talking like politicians, giving empty sound bites.

When he was a kid growing up around minor league teams, it wasn't a good business model. It was old rickety stands, empty seats. When it's run properly in the right market, today it's a great business model.

We then use the empty containers that we off load and fill them back up with cotton from the United States and send it to China.

What we expect to get out of this is the declaration that the coup was wrong and that the rights of the petitioners were violated. No matter what happens on Tuesday, the election is going to be an empty exercise, unless the international community respects the Haitian voters' decision.

He's a big goalie, and it's tough to find empty spots on him. It doesn't seem like the other teams are and that's a big plus for our hockey team.

There are one or two shops open. The marketplace is empty it is normally packed with hundreds of people. The only food people have is what they have at home.

I abandoned fiction for playwriting then for a number of years before taking it up again to write The Beautiful Room Is Empty in the mid-1960s.

He wasn't allowed to go anywhere one day, so he ran circles in an empty lot at his house. He just ran around and around. That's the type of thing that allowed him to be as good as he got.

He was extremely talented, but in a different way. His images are very vivid. He used empty space in an extremely artistic way. He was not so much looking at the history of art. He looked at the images of movies and advertising. He was not looking backwards, but he was always looking at the present in a way nobody had done before.

There are so many names that will be shouted today. It is so empty where someone is missing.

Kids consume so many empty calories today. We wanted to take a sweet treat that kids will eat a lot of anyway and make it healthier and lower in calories.

Ken Blackwell refuses to debate, once again demonstrating his reliance on negative attacks and empty rhetoric.

John Kerry's rhetoric on the campaign trail is hiding a long list of missed votes and empty promises on the issues he claims are priorities.

I think it is important to look at older empty buildings in town and find a use for them.

I think it's down, because my first year or two my mailbox was so full they were putting it in an empty mailbox near mine. They haven't had to do that this year.

It certainly was a big difference the last 48 hours. We were a little worried that with our schedule the boys would be a little empty in the gas tank, but they found some saved-up energy. But that's why we believe we're one of the best-conditioned teams. I think it pays off in games like tonight.

I thought when we were down 1-0, we had an opportunity on the power play. We had an empty net and missed it. That was probably the biggest chance we had in the game. We have to be able to score on those chances.

It hurts. I haven't slept or eaten since the accident. It seems every time you walk down the hall, there's an empty space.

It is a little weird without her here. It's kind of like me and all these little girls. It's a little empty without her here, but I've got some of my own things to worry about right now.