Empty Platitudes Quotes & Sayings

Can they love without a word for it? — George R R Martin

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time. — Kanye West

With God's help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow. — Elizabeth George

Confidence doesn't come from the inside out. It moves from the outside in. People feel less anxious
and more confident
on the inside when they can point to things they have done well on the outside. Fake confidence comes from stuffing our self-doubt. Empty confidence comes from parental platitudes on our lunch hour. Real confidence comes from mastery experiences, which are actual, lived moments of success, especially when things seem difficult. Whether we are talking about love or work, the confidence that overrides insecurity comes from experience. There is no other way. — Meg Jay

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work. — Giorgio Napolitano

God has brought me this far. He has laid out a phenomenal path for me. And I can't do anything but thank him. — Colin Kaepernick

The monster was crumbling, shrinking, revealing a man. Only a man. A traitor and a murderer certainly, but that made him less not more. — Jonathan Renshaw

You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the offenses as alleged in the articles of impeachment do not rise to the level of an impeachable offense. — Charles Ruff

Human life is a series of mistakes justified by reason; there is no escape from it since the reason is the first mistake born out of a process subsequently understood as the very life by the very reason! — Thiruman Archunan

People who don't like doing things together probably ... well probably shouldn't get married. — Luanne Rice

I almost moved mountains, touched rivers, impressed deserts and motivated skies, but I never made it to your heart. — M.F. Moonzajer

Then rise my soul! and soar away, Above the thoughtless crowd; Above the pleasures of the gay, And splendours of the proud; Up where eternal beauties bloom, And pleasures all divine; Where wealth, that never can consume, And endless glories shine. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Platitudes are poor substitutes for emotions, this negative space hollowed out and without words. I know the shape of you and it has no name. I know the sound of you and the smell of you and the touch and sight and taste of you. But language departed the same day you did, leaving my mouth empty. — Tania De Rozario

Good morning," he drawled. She straightened her shoulders with the silent reminder that she had to be as distant as he was. "My lord." He gave her an indulgent smirk. "As much as I like to be referred to as your lord, I think we've gone far beyond those empty platitudes. You have called me Ethan several times." He hesitated and tapped his chin. "Actually you moaned it once. I prefer you call me that while we are alone together. — Jess Michaels

I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday. — Barbara Steele

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best. — Michel De Montaigne