Top 44 Empty Handed Quotes
#1. Born empty handed,
Die empty handed.
I witnessed life at its fullest,
Empty handed.
Marlo Morgan
#2. The value you get does not depend on what you have, but how much of it you bring to the market place. You don't get paid when you keep your gifts at home and go to the market empty handed!
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.
Lee Ann Womack
#4. Think that; I know I should be grateful for the way we have been welcomed. Sick, wounded, starving, and empty-handed. Still, I can never get around the fact that District 13 was
Suzanne Collins
#5. Beginning empty handed and alone frightens the best of men. It also speaks volumes of just how sure they are that God is with them.
Gene Edwards
#6. If you chase after everything at once, you stand a good chance of ending up empty-handed.
Tadahiko Nagao
#7. If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things.
Laozi
#8. You came to the earth with loads of inspirations and influence. Dare to offload them out of you before you die. Give out all you carry along into the world and when you are ready to go back, go empty handed!
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. How amazing was this ability to achieve plenty by achieving little, to go home empty-handed yet still satisfied at the end of the day!
Elif Shafak
#10. Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.
Flora Thompson
#11. Everything is all right,
When you're here,
When you're right next to me,
When my hand is in yours,
Don't leave me,
Don't leave me empty handed.
Elizabeth Brooks
#12. Don't let a stranger that comes to you leave empty handed without food, water, shelter, or word of encouragement. Whether you believe in God or s**t, it's a bad omen when you let a stranger that came to you left empty handed.
Uzoma Nnadi
#13. He went to India to "find himself" last year, but evidently he wasn't there, and he came back empty-handed.
Craig McLay
#15. The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.
Sherry Argov
#16. If your enemy comes to speak bearing a sword, open your door to him and speak, but keep your own sword at hand. If he comes to you empty-handed, greet him the same way. But if he comes to you bearing gifts, stand on your walls and cast stones down on him.
Tad Williams
#17. The world has more winnable people than ever before but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
Donald McGannon
#18. That he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.
Henry David Thoreau
#19. We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed then it would be a disaster.
Steven Gerrard
#20. I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come away empty-handed. Or with someone else's hands. Or even with a missing hand.
Haruki Murakami
#21. worked hard at it, all these months, trying to get my knee back in shape - again. I'd dealt with my first catastrophic knee injury four years ago, a training accident that occurred right after I returned from my first Olympics empty-handed. "But that's the point, Bly. I went through surgery
Laney Monday
#22. I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.
Amy Sedaris
#23. Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.
Rick Riordan
#24. I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.
Dave Chappelle
#25. Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.
Theodore Parker
#26. I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.
John Henrik Clarke
#27. Don't go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#28. If a society has no moral foundations then success is a threat. Every successful person thinks everyone else is a failure, and this is the proof of failure. Conquering the world and dying empty-handed on foreign shores is a paradox of such success.
Wasif Ali Wasif
#29. Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed.
Hugo Pratt
#30. It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something ... What are we going to show in the way of resistance-as compared to the Communists, for instance-when all this terror is over? We will be standing empty-handed. We will have no answer when we are asked: What did you do about it?
Hans Scholl
#31. He can't shake the feeling that this place is some sort of pyramid scheme, and that those who fail to understand that will be left empty-handed. But there's no obvious reason for this feeling of his. Maybe he's ungrateful by nature.
Margaret Atwood
#32. Regrets came up and asked me if I'd like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn't leave this relationship empty handed.
Steve Toltz
#34. I now believe that all journeys are ridiculous: the only journey from which you don't always come back empty-handed is the journey inside yourself.
Amos Oz
#35. What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?
Veronica Roth
#36. When you enter the Lions Den, it's best not to go empty-handed or you'll probably leave that way
Josh Stern
#37. It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town ... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.
Henry David Thoreau
#38. HERE'S THE THING ABOUT BAD BOYS: IN THE END, THEY ALWAYS WALK AWAY. BUT THEY DON'T LEAVE YOU EMPTY-HANDED. IN THEIR WAKE WILL BE GIRLS WHO NOW KNOW WHAT THEY WANT OUT OF LOVE AND WHAT THEY WON'T STAND FOR EVER AGAIN.
Mandy Hale
#39. Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.
Gretel Ehrlich
#40. In each life there comes at least one moment, which, if recognized and seized, transforms the course of that life forever. Rely, therefore, on radical trust, even though the moment may call for you to leap empty-handed into the void.
Ralph Blum
#41. Archaeologists of the soul never return empty-handed.
Anais Nin
#42. Photography turns one and all into fools, including - especially - artists like himself, eager to hunt life and trap as many of its fleeting variables as possible inside a 35 mm frame but doomed to return empty-handed far more often than not.
Richard Woodward
#43. 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
#44. He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?'
'We do.' I smiled.
He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me.
'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade.
Michelle Cohen Corasanti
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