Emptier In The Bible Quotes & Sayings

When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O, great sage,' he says, 'tell me the meaning of life.' The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, 'Do you have any other questions, my son?' Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, 'You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?' — Robert Breault

The world is less violent than it has ever been. — Barack Obama

Grampa's long beard was serving as a bookmark in a well-thumbed paperback with a Western-themed cover. I never knew what would catch Grampa's fancy in the book department. He was as likely to be caught reading a gothic romantic suspense as he was a snowblower repair manual. — Jessie Crockett

You're not gay, you were just being a really good friend. — Kate Sherwood

I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, which comes across at concerts, where the audience may be quieter. So this means less hecklers, but maybe it also means that people may not be as open about how they felt. I'm not so sure this is especially true of Denmark, but it's what I've heard. — Agnes Obel

Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction. — James Allen

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. — Matt Groening

History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar. — Mal Peet

Your dream was given to you. If someone else can't see it for you, that's fine, it was given to you and not them. It's your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it! — Les Brown

I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world. — Fanny Burney

I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance. — Eric Sevareid

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away. — Etty Hillesum

That best academy, a mother's knee. — James Russell Lowell

He must be an idiot to feel this way, but there's nothing he can do. He doesn't even know if he can manage to speak. — Alice Hoffman