Top 100 Empty Full Quotes
#1. The partial becomes complete; the crooked, straight; the empty, full; the worn out, new.
Lao-Tzu
#2. The Headlights lit the path we were traveling down, but only so far. After that, the world was dark and empty, full of possibility and uncertainty ... much like the paths of our own lives.
S.C. Stephens
#3. If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
Green Day
#4. It made Alice realize how much of life was full of empty stuff, objects longed for because the hope of them made your small life seem bigger, better, brighter.
Christina Henry
#5. You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.
Richard Paul Evans
#6. There is something absent in me, I thought. Something incomplete. Even my mother couldn't describe me. There was something empty in me that in other people was full.
Julie Schumacher
#7. If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Francis Quarles
#8. When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.
Dieter Dengler
#9. True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.
Sri Chinmoy
#10. Glancing at the bottle of tequila in Tate's hand, Logan questioned much more calmly than he felt, "How full was that?"
Tate lifted the quarter-empty bottle and shrugged. "Unopened. Why?
Ella Frank
#11. I think sometimes our minds get so full of something that we just have to empty them out.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#12. Her head full of clouds, but not in the dreamy sense. Just the empty one.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#13. An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel" he said at length."The trouble is that it is less impersonal.
Daphne Du Maurier
#14. It was funny, in her old age, to look back and see for how short a period her nest had NOT been empty. Relatively speaking, it was nothing - empty far longer than full. so much of herself had been invested in those children; who could believe how briefly they'd been with her.
Anne Tyler
#15. When the court is arrayed in splendor, The fields are full of weeds, And the granaries are empty. Some wear gorgeous clothes, Carry sharp swords, And indulge in food and drink; They have more possessions than they can use. They are robber barons. This is certainly not the way of Tao.
Lao-Tzu
#16. It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.
Jackson Pearce
#17. When the mind is full, the room ceases to be empty
Wang Ping
#18. If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
Peter Drucker
#19. He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.
Charles Frazier
#20. Some say the glass is half full and blush,
Some say it's half empty and sink,
I feel you are in the midst of,
reaching out for another awesome drink!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#21. I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.
Erich Maria Remarque
#22. It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
Joey Comeau
#23. An empty stomach is better than full and grief is better than happiness.
Irving Stone
#24. Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.
Gwyneth Lewis
#25. Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
Nora Roberts
#26. Like this cup, you are full of opinions and speculations. To see the light of wisdom... you first must empty your cup.
Lama Rinpoche
#29. The lounge is empty of bodies but full of debris: wineglasses, ashtrays, food wrappers, and a pair of silk boxer shorts over the Boer War rifle
David Mitchell
#30. A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.
Wes Fesler
#31. That's why we have that 'JUDGEMENT BOX' by the door. You'll find it at each event. It's visibly empty, but emotionally full. If we leave our judgement at the door, we're less likely to be shocked by someone's actions or words," Charlee explained.
Jill Hannah Anderson
#32. The glass is neither half full or half empty but merely too large for the contents.
Chris Byrd
#33. Was there no one over thirty-five who had not some secret agony, some white-faced fear? Half one's life one walked carelessly, certain that some day one would have one's heart's desire: and for the rest of it, one either goes empty, or walks carrying a full cup, afraid of every step.
Helen Waddell
#34. Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.
William Law
#35. That night, before you sent me away, was the best night of my life. The marks you laced me with lasted a full week. Every time I looked in a mirror, or touched a bruise in the shower, I grew slick for you. You visited my dreams. I woke to aching wetness and an empty heart.
Pepper Winters
#36. No American can understand the need for time
that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare you should jam that full instead of leaving it
as space around your next ten minutes. How can anything ripen without those 'empty' ten minutes?
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#37. She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#39. I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.
Nigahiga
#40. For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full ...
Jonathan Swift
#41. Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.
Alan K. Simpson
#42. I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I ... I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not ... for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating.
Sarah J. Maas
#43. Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?
Nyogen Senzaki
#44. What happens if one day we're standing in a kitchen, dishwasher empty, oven and air full, you're washing and I'm drying, and the ring slips down the drain and flushes out to sea?
Darnell Lamont Walker
#45. Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.
Bill Cosby
#46. In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
Michael Ondaatje
#47. Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.
Zhuangzi
#48. Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.
David Bohm
#49. Whether your glass is half full or half empty there's still room for more wine.
Trish Jackson
#50. When you feel thankful, you can be appreciative for a moment, then not at all the next. It seems the tank is full, then it becomes empty, and the cycle continues. If you don't feel the same gratitude for a moment, know that it's possible in the next moment that comes around.
J.R. Rim
#51. I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"
Damon Lindelof
#52. We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.
Brian Roberts
#53. The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones. Warehouses full of light and dust. Empty attics with a view. Coastlines. Prairies.
Yann Martel
#54. There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.
Scott Stossel
#55. If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.
Harvey Dunn
#56. But the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no
I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.
David Levithan
#57. He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace which is sometimes such fertile soil ; it's the ground from which our brightest dreams and biggest ideas (both good and spectacularly bad) suddenly burst forth, often full-blown.
Stephen King
#59. Outside Christ, I am empty; in Christ, I am full.
Watchman Nee
#60. I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.
John Buchan
#61. People who argue whether the glass is half empty or half full are probably not thirsty.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#62. Cyber void is so full of amazing emptiness that makes us feel fulfilled.
Munia Khan
#63. I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.
Sarah Dessen
#64. Of course, to a true geek, the glass is neither half-full nor half-empty. It's twice as big as it currently needs to be, though a reasonable reserve margin is not a bad thing to have ready, just in case.
David S. Platt
#65. I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty,
while my brain was dark and full
Tina J. Richardson
#66. The room was empty. It was full of silence and the memory of a nice perfume.
Raymond Chandler
#68. What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regardless of how full the glass is, it's filled with acid, and you'll burn your face off.
T.J. Klune
#69. If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#70. The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
John Lyly
#71. Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#72. To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.
Mary Alice Monroe
#74. To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. However, just like this cup, you seem to be full of your own ideas. And how can any more go in . . . until you first empty your cup?
Robin S. Sharma
#76. If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#77. Sometimes, I just wanted my silences to stay silent, full of thoughts, empty of words.
Maggie Stiefvater
#79. Let me ask you this: How many days do you have left, if any, in the life you promised for yourself yesterday?
Dave Matthes
#80. Think positive and be a half full glass not half empty glass person. Positive thoughts work so much better than negative ones
Raven McAllan
#82. There were maybe eighty chairs set up in the room, and it was two-thirds full but felt one-third empty.
John Green
#83. He wouldn't call a glass of water half full or half empty; he'd assume it was poisoned and run away.
Michael Reisman
#84. The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
Dwight L. Moody
#85. So we ride like this, in silent tension, my mind full of Matt and my body empty
Katy Evans
#86. 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
#87. On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know.
On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.
Philippe Petit
#88. Feeling free of full & empty, feeling here but also there,
Neither or but simply both, a universe within, one single stare.
Jay Woodman
#89. Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty.' But the reader's plate is full
Agatha Christie
#90. Some people see the liquid and thing half full. Others only see the air and think half empty. Sometimes I get the sense Chatham sees it all, which is kind of terrifying. I don't know if I want him to see me--the real me.
McCall Hoyle
#91. Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh the same in every hand.
Maurice Druon
#92. A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands?
Antonio Porchia
#93. There was a space inside me, cupped and still. It was small as cupped hands; it was large as the sky. It was untouched and it was touch itself. It was empty and it was full. I held love there, like a treasure. I held my own name.
Erin Bow
#94. Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.
Ray Bradbury
#95. Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
Pietro Aretino
#96. The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission
Grace Hopper
#97. Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they'd need to destroy something that precious to feel full.
Rachel Caine
#98. In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Antonio Porchia
#99. There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
Martin Heidegger
