Top 100 Glass Empty Quotes
#1. Whether your glass is half full or half empty there's still room for more wine.
#2. I'm a lawyer. Pessimists see a glass half-empty; optimists see a glass half-full. Lawyers see a glass containing possible carcinogenic materials without a warning label. Skepticism is coded in our DNA.
#3. Empty the theaters save for clowns and furnish the rooms with glass walls and pretty colors running up and down the walls like confetti or blood or sherry or sauterne.
#4. The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty.
#5. Words are pretty, useless things - butterflies behind glass. You may feel warm and bright as you stare at their beauty but you'll walk away empty and cold, clutching nothing but the painful realization that you never really had anything at all.
#6. If you live feeling like
Your glass is half empty, well,
It may as well be empty all the way.
#7. 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.
#8. I found an empty chair
and sat on it
to find myself even emptier.
I found a broken glass
and looked at it
to see my dissolved face
a little prettier
I found a steep doorway
and entered
in order to close my exit.
From the poem 'Blue Stanzas
#9. 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.
#10. I'm not glass-half-full, glass-half-empty; I'm like, "There's a glass?"
#11. As long as you have an empty wine glass I can borrow," I say, pulling a jumbo-sized bottle of Pinot Noir from my bag. "Or a really long straw. Either one.
#12. A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.
#13. Stop asking if the glass is half full or half empty. Instead ask "What's in it? How did it get there? What can I do with it?"
#14. People who argue whether the glass is half empty or half full are probably not thirsty.
#15. Walker liked to joke that, together, he and his wife owned the entire glass. He took the half-full part, while she usually claimed the empty half.
#16. In a half-empty-glass sort of world, I'm the little girl whose cup runneth over.
#17. When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.
#18. 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.
#19. You should never look at the cup or glass as being half empty; see it as being half empty, then you will have mastered the test of greatness.
#20. Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.
#21. Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.
#22. Half full or half empty, just be thankful if your glass has anything in it at all.
#23. I'm a pessimistic person, I see the glass half empty even when it's full.
#24. Whether the glass seems half full or half empty depends on how thirsty you are.
#25. The windows are empty holes lined with glass teeth.
#26. The optimist says, "The glass is half full."
The pessimist says, "The glass is half empty."
The rationalist says, "This glass is twice as big as it needs to be."
That makes it clear as glass.
#27. The glass is not half empty; it is half full.
#28. I'm supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty," I told her.
Without a moment's hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: "It depends on if you're drinking or pouring.
#29. The shot glass is half smashed.
#30. It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know.
#31. Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.
#32. Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism.
#33. To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.
#34. If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
#35. I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.
#36. People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass.
#37. Women are more accommodating. If a woman drinks the last glass of apple juice in the refrigerator, she'll make more apple juice. If a man drinks the last glass of apple juice, he'll just put back the empty container.
#38. One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
#39. The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.
#40. Some people see the glass as half-empty, while others see it as half-full. But Jones stares at it and tries to figure out who drank the damn water.
#41. Some people see a glass as half empty; some see it as half full. I put the glass in a cupboard and forget it's there. You get my point?
#42. 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.
#43. 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.
#44. 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.
#45. Don't settle for a half empty glass, always go for a full one!
#46. I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
#47. If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full.
#48. I am a positive person. I never think of the glass as half empty. I just keep pushing forward.
#49. The lesson: If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks.
#50. Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.
#51. A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.
#52. I've been told I'm a glass half-empty sort of person.
#53. The room was amazing. It was all glass, including the domed roof, and in all directions it offered a view of the Atlantic Ocean stretching empty into the distance, hinting of eternity.
#54. Glass half empty, glass half full. Well, either way you won't be going thirsty, count your blessings not your flaws ...
#55. I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What's the difference? Eventually it'll end up empty and in the trash.
#56. When looking at your reserve when going through trials and you see a glass over half empty, remember to look at the one who gives the water. Our focus is what is important, not our struggle.
#57. Your half empty..
A broken glass,
I love you can sound so beautiful
Until you stop to listen
That terrible background noise,
you have no idea how bad I want to hold you
But I'm afraid I'll cut my hand.
#58. The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years.
#59. My glass is not only half-empty, I'm convinced someone spit in it.
#60. i'm a realist, miss randall. if you show me a glass, i see it as neither half-empty nor half-full. i see enough water to drown a man, if i can find a way to put it in his lungs.
#61. But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.
#62. Optimists see the glass as half full.
Pessimists see the glass as half empty.
Experiential trainers see the whole glass and its context.
#63. An empty glass is perceived by the eyes as nothing,
in reality, this nothing is something, because it has air.
That something is what we call energy pervading everywhere,
for it is the breath of air which brings life into you.
#64. Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.
#65. Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.
#66. If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven't been holding the right glass
#67. All my favorite establishments were either overly crowded or pathetically empty. People either sipped fine vintages in celebration or gulped intoxicants of who cares what kind, drowning themselves in a lack of moderation, raising a glass to lower inhibitions, imbibing spirits to raise their own.
#68. Let's put it this way: the glass is half-empty, but the fact is, I can always get another drink
#69. Meg," he whispered. "It wouldn't be real love if there weren't the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn't choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That's why there's evil in this world, because there's free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.
#70. Those who cannot see must rely upon what has gone before. If I do not wish to appear so foolish as to drink from an empty glass I must remember whether I have drained it or not.
#71. 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.
#72. 99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.
#73. After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.
#74. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren't as devastated.
#75. I'm a glass-is-half-full person now, and your sorry ass is still in half-empty country.
#76. The hot blue-glass eyes of the mannequins watched as the ladies drifted down the empty river bottom street, their images shimmering in the windows like blossoms seen under darkly moving waters.
#77. Have you totally lost your mind? I'm not going to tell your daughter you're dying!" "It's the only way she'll come." Sam Paris held Luke's gaze and refused to back down. He ran a hand over his red and silver whiskers, took a long drink of bourbon, then set the empty glass down on the kitchen table.
#78. It's not whether your glass is empty or full, it's what you do with it that really matters.
#79. Glass half empty, glass half full, glass too small?
#80. I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.
#81. The glass is neither half full or half empty but merely too large for the contents.
#82. At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.
#83. She sat at the window of the train, her head thrown back, one leg stretched across to the empty seat before her. The window frame trembled with the speed of the motion, the pane hung over empty darkness, and dots of light slashed across the glass as luminous streaks, once in a while.
#84. Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.
#85. It seems a peculiar thing when I go to fill my own cup; it remains empty as if the liquid evaporates as soon as it touches the glass. Yet when I reach to top off the cups of others, my own spills over. This is the crazy magic of charity.
#86. Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
#87. Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.
#88. 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.
#89. She was curvaceous and held a near-empty glass of wine that, based on the heavy look in her eyes, was not her first. "Where
#90. It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.
#91. I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty ... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!
#92. You're going to stay here. You're going to get strong. And then, when your mind is as empty as your glass, you'll know what to do.
#93. I have that glass-half-empty syndrome, and it takes a great deal of effort to climb out of the hole of darkness that I choose to live in mentally.
#94. I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
#95. 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!
#96. I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!
#97. I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over.
#98. My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.
#99. If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities.
#100. Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your inner dialogue.
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