Top 43 Quotes About Empty Pockets
#1. I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#2. The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
Juvenal
#3. I know love is worth the time it takes to find. Think of that when all the world seems made of walk up rooms and hands in empty pockets
Gerry Spence
#4. I more proudly take a speck from a man with empty pockets," said Sabetha, "than riches from a man whose purse stays heavy.
Scott Lynch
#5. What opposite discoveries we have seen!
(Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.)
One makes new noses, one a guillotine,
One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets;
But vaccination certainly has been
A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets, ...
Lord Byron
#6. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale
#7. Head full of beer, fists jammed into his empty pockets, halos of blur around the parking lot lights, yup, one more wasted evening, and even though you wanted to believe you had an infinite supply of evenings available for wasting, you didn't.
Jean Thompson
#8. January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#10. A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.
Ovid
#11. We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.
Cortney S. Warren
#12. I watched in astonishment, Jess reached up and cupped Miss Georgia's breasts in her hands, giving them an appraising squeeze and admiring nod. A moment later, Miss Georgia returned the gesture ...
Jefferson Bass
#13. They'd had to empty their pockets and turn over Aunt Val's purse to the security guard. That way, I wouldn't be tempted to try to kill anyone with her lip gloss and her travel-size pack of tissues.
Rachel Vincent
#14. A few years back, they jacked David Copperfield in West Palm Beach, for Chrissake. Yes, it's funny: "Yo, empty your pockets," and he pulls out a bunny rabbit. But it's also depressing. If someone who can make himself disappear isn't safe, who is?
Colin Quinn
#15. They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#16. Every bride is beautiful. It's like newborn babies or puppies. They can't help it.
Emme Rollins
#17. When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
Kapil Dev
#18. All the problems of the world are caused by people who do not listen.
Franco Zeffirelli
#19. He looked at me now.
"Remember I said, 'what if I didn't want to fix your bike?'"
I remembered. "Yes ... "
"I didn't want to fix it, because I liked driving you places.
C.J. Duggan
#20. My present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.
Susanna Centlivre
#21. Even if your pockets are empty, never forget to fill your heart with love.
Debasish Mridha
#22. Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Charles Caleb Colton
#23. Do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love:
William Shakespeare
#24. The currency of life is passion, and as with any coin, it has two sides: pleasure, pain, joy, sorrow. Impossible to slip a single side of that coin in your pocket. You take all or nothing."
"Perhaps we are alike, you and I, and I prefer my pockets empty."
"My pockets are far from empty.
Karen Marie Moning
#25. If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.
David Icke
#26. Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.
Michele Bachmann
#27. Men are fantastic - as a concept.
Jo Brand
#28. Too often there is this sinister greed that pulls at my coattails, subtly whispering in the ear of my soul that it is within my rights to tuck away a few dark trinkets to toy with when the tedium of righteous living gets a bit boring. But God would suggest that I empty my pockets.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#29. It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#30. here he dug in his pockets and produced a thimble, a root, two empty tin cans, three Indian arrowheads, an apple peeler, a dried-up boll weevil, and a bent pocketknife.
James McBride
#31. If men could fit stars in their pockets, the sky would be empty.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers-
a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.
Anthony Liccione
#33. I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.
Norman Vincent Peale
#35. ... epiphanies rarely repeat themselves.
Pico Iyer
#36. Miserly curmudgeons may help themselves, but considerate and generous believers the Lord will help. As you have done unto others, so will the Lord do unto you. Empty your pockets.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#37. Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#39. I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#40. Her wide, gorgeous smile was the culprit. It was pure magic. Neighbors lined the parking lot, eager to empty their pockets, all so she'd shine that beam on them.
Rachel Harris
#41. He left as silently as he'd come. Pierre LaManche favored crepe-soled shoes, kept his pockets empty so nothing jangled or swished. Like a croc in a river he arrived and departed unannounced by auditory cues. Some of the staff found it unnerving.
Kathy Reichs
#42. Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind.
Nanao Sakaki
#43. My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.
Ethan Hawke