Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
I think personal actions definitely matter. I think collectively they can make a big difference. But I also think that people don't live in a vacuum.
Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.
If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.
The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.
Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.
ISIS happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left because of bad judgment. And I will tell you, I will take care of ISIS.
Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due to a theoretical vacuum.
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.
Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.
Nobody exists in a vacuum.
He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.
There is a woman who swam around Manhattan, and I asked her, why? She said, it hadn't ever been done before. Well, she didn't have to do that. If she wanted to something no one had ever done before, all she had to do was vacuum my apartment.
If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and our task to disentangle the natural laws would be hopelessly difficult. The fact however that alpha has just its value 1137 is certainly no chance but itself a law of nature. It is clear that the explanation of this number must be the central problem of natural philosophy.