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Life is not fair; you do what it takes and at the end, you are the only person going home with empty hands. -- M.F. Moonzajer
God gives where he finds empty hands. -- Saint Augustine
Faith is two empty hands held open to receive all of the Lord -- Alan Redpath
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds. -- Teresa of Avila
May I not come before You with empty hands, since we are rewarded according to our deeds. -- Teresa of Avila
I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now. -- Louisa May Alcott
I can amass countless fortunes and yet stand with empty hands. I can seek God and have fortunes that fill countless hands. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can get the answer of your every question in the empty hands of the beggar. But still you are questioning why his hands are empty. -- Rumman Bin Sadiq
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts. -- Louisa May Alcott
God wants to take the fears that you and I are holding onto with both hands. He throws them aside, effortless, and then takes our empty hands in His and fills them with his love. He is not a hard driver. He wants to provide. -- Anna White
I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them. -- Antonio Porchia
Yes, I'm a real fighter. But I often ended up empty-handed. -- Hugo Pratt
I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed. -- Amy Sedaris
I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians. -- Nick Clegg
I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed. -- Dave Chappelle
In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters. -- Iris Apfel
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. -- Helen Keller
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library. -- Richard Ernst
The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted. -- Sherry Argov
I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories. -- John Henrik Clarke
For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break. -- John Frederick Nims
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out. -- Thrity Umrigar
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty. -- Leo Buscaglia
Tonight, I won't dream, because nobodyhas held me and no hands have strayed and eventhough I'm drunk with love, my arms are empty. -- Melissa Lee-Houghton
Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty. -- T. B. Joshua
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. -- Thomas Jefferson
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43 -- Ian Fleming
My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43. -- Ian Fleming
I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have no idea how free. -- Sylvia Plath
True freedom is an empty cup, because it can be filled with anything. Freedom sounds great, until someone hands it to you, and then it just makes you thirsty. -- Jarod Kintz

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