Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.
What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.
I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.
Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.
There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.
There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.
We must empty purgatory with our prayers.
Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.
A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.
Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.
Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.
This ground is surprising. It holds about 60,000 but when there are around 30,000 in, you get the feeling that it is half empty
He thought, or said, or sang, I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.