empty quotes

But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.

- SirAlfred Jules Ayer
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.8.

We'd both been to the countryand found it disappointingly empty.

-Julian Patrick Barnes
Metroland, pt.1, ch.4.

And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent emptyaway.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke1:46^53.

Esurientes implevit bonis, et divites dimisit inanes. He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath sent empty away. See Bible (NewTestament) 115:23.

-Bible (Vulgate)
St Luke1.53.

   I sent a carriage to bring you back But it went empty, and empty it returned.

-Julia McWilliams Child
c.150  BC  'To My Wife1', collected in  A Book of Chinese Verse (translated by N L Smith and R H Kotewall).

But ah! if empty dreams so please, Love give me more such nights as these.

- Robert Herrick
  'The Vision to Electra'.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success 442 and miscarriage are empty sounds.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language, preface.

Je suis triste pour ma ge  ne  ration qui est vide de toute substance humaine. I am sad for my generation which is empty of all human substance.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupe  ry
  Lettre au ge  ne  ral, no.10. Published10 Apr1948 in Le Figaro litte  raire.

L'art pour l'art est un vain mot. L'art pour le vrai, l'art pour le beau et le bon, voila'   la religion que je cherche. Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I search for.

- Sir Sydney Samuelson
  Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean.

Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer, This land stares at the sun in a huge silence Endlessly repeating something we cannot hear. Inarticulate, arctic, Not written on by history, emptyas paper, It leans away from the world with songs in its lakes Older than love, and lost in the miles. 722

- F(rancis) R(eginald) Scott
  Of Canada.'Laurentian Shield'.

What though his head be empty, provided his commonplace book be full.

-Jonathan Swift
  ATale of aTub,'Digression in praise of digression', ch.7.