Filled Quotes

#1. Our mind is a crazy nightclub of cacophonous sound filled with strange images and one-night stands: our mind tells us lonely, loveless tales that leave us frightened but really have no lasting power

Lauren Roedy Vaughn

#2. How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us - in the depths of her own agony and desolation!

Alphonsus Liguori

#3. When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#4. The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

Kate Forsyth

#5. The cells of death row are filled with guys who had nothing to hide.

Kenneth Eade

#6. Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with me throughout my years in science. Whenever one of my students came to me with a scientific project, I asked only one question, 'Will it bring you nearer to God?'

Isidor Isaac Rabi

#7. I left with a heavy heart and a still heavier suitcase--I had filled it with my favourite books.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#8. I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.

Alexandra Paul

#9. Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who's filled with this 'affluenza.' He's constantly exposed to consumption and a sense of bigness, which is a part of being an American.

Mitchell Joachim

#10. All I do is have fun. When I'm not working, it's about making people laugh. I love making jokes about things. Even when someone's mad at me, I'll deflect anger with humor. My days are filled with laughter. If I'm not laughing, I'm not happy.

Drew Fuller

#11. Life was messy, filled with countless worries, questions - what ifs. The real question was not how a person conquered the what ifs, but how one learned to live in spite of them - even when faced with the reality that the answers weren't always pretty.

Angela Lynn

#12. Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

Gautama Buddha

#13. As love is the battlefield, life is unexpectedly filled.

Santosh Kalwar

#14. Pretentiousness is a comedy vein filled with riches.

Torry Martin

#15. As dull as Nate Gray is," Will said, "his head is not actually filled with gears, Henry. He's a human.

Cassandra Clare

#16. Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Dorothea Brande

#17. I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

Harold Ross

#18. What an astonishing thing, that her praise filled his heart.

Kate Grenville

#19. Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.

Peter York

#20. I don't want to talk about it anymore," I said, focusing on the dashboard in front of me to prevent the tears that filled my eyes from falling. "Please don't ask me again." Then I got out of the car. I closed the door and didn't look back, fighting the newly created anxiety in my belly.

Erin Dionne

#21. I'm filled with doubt, especially about my faith.

Paulo Coelho

#22. As soon as I turned toward the steps, my vision filled with the magnificence of the large oak tree. And there, rocking from its branch, was the swing.

Rebecca Donovan

#23. I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

Imre Kertesz

#24. The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in decline. Holland, thought favorably disposed toward him, was dull. The United States of America, he decided, was a possibility.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#25. I saw for the first time the earth's shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black ... the feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.

Yuri Gagarin

#26. Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

Cassandra Clare

#27. My life is a room filled with love letters and goodbye notes.

Jenim Dibie

#28. I have always envied those Christians who were martyred for Christ Jesus our Lord. What a privilege to live for our Lord and to die for Him as well. I am filled to overflowing with joy; I am not only satisfied to be in prison ... but am ready to give my life for the sake of Jesus Christ.

Mehdi Dibaj

#29. Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to rule a kingdom. Any man can kill, Finnikin. It is a stroke, an action with one's hand. But not every man knows how to lead.

Melina Marchetta

#30. She was the most beautiful woman I'd ever known. It was the beauty of a desert at dawn: a loveliness that filled my eyes, and crushed me into silent, unbreathing awe.

Gregory David Roberts

#31. You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#32. I wish you good writing and good luck. Even if you've already done the good writing, you'll still need the good luck. It's a shark-filled lagoon out there. Cross your fingers and watch your back.

Margaret Atwood

#33. People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.

Tim Gunn

#34. Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment - in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and life-long supporters of the Democrat Party? You betcha.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#35. It is such a simple formula: The more senses we bring to the moment, the more time slows, the more a catalogue of joyful vivid memories grows in our minds, the more life is filled with gratitude, and the more nourished our soul.

Brendon Burchard

#36. It won't be a quick break, either. It'll be slow and painful, filled with so many momenta like these that tear me up from the inside out

Colleen Hoover

#37. He would not give her up,he could not.For the first time in his life he'd found someone who filled all the empty spaces in his heart

Julia Quinn

#38. Your thoughts about your circumstances have you down. On the other hand, you can be in one of the biggest battles of your life, and still be filled with joy and peace and victory - if you simply learn how to choose the right thought. It's time to think about what you're thinking about.

Joel Osteen

#39. I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.

Sxip Shirey

#40. A series is filled with compromises.

William Shatner

#41. When you wake up every new day, be filled with thanks.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. Letting Go: A Little Bit at a Time is filled with big ideas that just might change your life. Wise, witty, and important.

Daniel Amen

#43. Will you turn on the radio? I fancy a bit of music," she said. "Louder than that, sweetie. Oh, I love this." "Telephone" by Lady Gaga filled the car.

Robert Galbraith

#44. The sight of men filled her with an old, slow, strange mixture of tenderness and terror.

Peter S. Beagle

#45. Ghost towns filled with sad people who settled for what life offered them. The road unfurls before us. Everything is possible. I feel sick to my stomach.

Pete Wentz

#46. Life is filled with opportunities to express love by acts of service.

Gary Chapman

#47. The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.

Paul Washer

#48. There's nothing greater than having a heart filled with love...& eyes filled with light

J.L. Hunt

#49. We filled our days with porch-step kisses, filled our ears with three-year-old laughter, and filled our hearts with love. Deep, soul-aching, desperate love.

Jay McLean

#50. My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.

Herbert Hoover

#51. A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

Rand Paul

#52. Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into our Europe. Enthusiasts have purveyed it, careerists have pretended to accept it, imbeciles have believed it.

Frederick The Great

#53. Would he ever come back? He wondered. The water filled his ears with its own rush, and he was comforted by the realization that, in fact, he never left.

Diana Gabaldon

#54. She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

Sherman Alexie

#55. All you who are in love
Aye and can not remove it
I pity the pain that you endure.
For experience lets me know
That your hearts are filled with woe
It's a woe that no mortal can cure.
-the Curragh of Kildare

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.

Dustin Hoffman

#57. It's an awe-filled, wonderful, terrifying act to have a child, for you suddenly wear your heart on the outside of your body. You risk a little more each day as he wanders from your arms into the world.

Susan May Warren

#58. Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The Stories We Tell is filled with the warmth, heart and compassion that have become the trademark of her novels.

Diane Chamberlain

#59. It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.

Haruki Murakami

#60. Downstairs in the kitchen, Marco and Sophia - my grandparents, who have insisted I call them by their first names - were already there. Sophia stood over the oven, pans hissing, as the smell of bacon filled the air. Marco sat at the table, the morning newspaper opened up in front of him.

Jessica Sorensen

#61. I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

Denis O'Hare

#62. While I was at Carlucci I learned how to dust a tiramisu and pair cordials. I learned having a pocket filled with cash is a dangerous thing. I learned that I was getting way too good at a job that was not my life's passion.

Amy Poehler

#63. In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern.

Douglas A. Lawson

#64. The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time.

Marvin J. Ashton

#65. Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next.

Thomas Ligotti

#66. Even when she was on her knees- filled with my darkness- she was still shining bright. My Siren's song, my exposed nerve. She lured me in and made me feel. And then she left me to perish.

A. Zavarelli

#67. The modern world is filled with failed relationships.

Steven Magee

#68. When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

Augustine Of Hippo

#69. Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys ... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house ... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.

Michelle Obama

#70. The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

Ernst Toller

#71. Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.

Margaret Mazzantini

#72. Miracles are just formal requests, Shara thinks wildly. It's like having a form preprinted and filled out and handing it in to get exactly what you want! But you don't always have to do it that way! You can make it up as you go along, so long as you do it right!

Robert Jackson Bennett

#73. I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

Chris Van Allsburg

#74. A misty radiance, through which stars were struggling to twinkle, filled the night sky beyond the tiny window beside him.

Robert Galbraith

#75. The Bride maidens rejoice the eyes that wait the coming of the bride. But when the bride draweth nigh, then the maidens shine not to the eyes that are filled.

Bram Stoker

#76. Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love ...

Hermann Hesse

#77. The screen filled with a pure and simple blue in which a few black pixels floated.

Mal Peet

#78. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Robert Frost

#79. Even though the dance floor was filled with beauty and color enough to dazzle any eye, Odette had no desire to look away from Jorgen as she stepped toward him, clasped his hands, then let go as they stepped back.

Melanie Dickerson

#80. His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him that he was dying and he didn't care.
'He's alive!' Blue said again 'He's breathing!'
'I can't see him breathing.

Herbie Brennan

#81. When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

John Donne

#82. After long absence, of return / To my dear home - Oh, happiness! / To lie in blissful consciousness / Of all around: The picture there - / The books - the flower-glass filled with care / By a kind hand - And then to know, / 'Twas but to rise, and meet below / Such a heart's welcome!

Caroline Anne Southey

#83. We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.

Simon Sinek

#84. The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join them. The higher they rose into the zenith of the heavens, the further night was chased back, until a great and radiant being resumed its throne in the sky.

Heather Heffner

#85. Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It's a must have.

Marci Shimoff

#86. A girl who would surrender every inhibition to her at night, yet still refused to become a dependant. Andria was more than erotic satisfaction, she filled the soul's longing.

Anonymous

#87. The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea

Bernard Moitessier

#88. One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.

Walter Scott

#89. Steve did not have a death wish. He had the exact opposite. His appetite for life was so strong, it outweighed all fear. So what if his choices shortened his life? His choices filled his life, and enriched the lives of those around him.

Richard Branson

#90. Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank

Gary Chapman

#91. The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.

Alan W. Watts

#92. If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.

James D. Maxon

#93. By holiday time, Buena Vista Street felt like Bedford Falls, with its vintage lights and decorations, and a classic Santa Claus listening to children's holiday wishes at Elias & Co. Cocoa clutching---Guests in scarves and parkas filled the streets and shops.

Leslie Le Mon

#94. A house filled with love is never empty.

Saru Singhal

#95. It's crazy to think that a world that is filled with so much evil can look so beautiful.

Sharlay

#96. Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

Joseph Heller

#97. God has given us a vision to see the body of Christ move from being an inactive audience to a Spirit-filled army ... God is about to unloose a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit of an unprecedented magnitude ... He is looking for individuals who will be 'dread champions' for his cause.

John Wimber

#98. The Holy Eucharist is like a divine Storehouse filled with every virtue; God has placed It in the world so that everyone one may draw from It.

Peter Julian Eymard

#99. The skies have been filled with amethyst tears.

J.L. Weil

#100. Faulkner had an egg carton filled with periods and throughout his writing career, used nearly all of them.

Kelli Jae Baeli