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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. -- George Sand
And empty words are evil. -- Homer
Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them. -- Mike Ditka
To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking. -- Robert Bridges
We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words. -- Chiang Kai-shek
You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words. -- Lynn Flewelling
You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else. -- Tito Colliander
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead. -- George Sewell
One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes. -- Jean Webster
Empty words almost echo within themselves -- Cecelia Ahern
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid. -- Homer
Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all. -- Tanya Huff
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. -- Milan Kundera
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full. -- Martin Heidegger
Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. -- Wayne Dyer
Words are but empty thanks. -- Colley Cibber
Be an empty page, untouched by words. -- Rumi
When words are most empty, tears are most apt. -- Max Lucado
Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story. -- Heinrich Heine
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. -- Denis Johnson
They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces. -- Paulo Coelho
The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain. -- Epicurus
Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone's heart. -- Mandy Hale
Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words. -- Stephen Spender
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words. -- Jack Kerouac
What is this eternity to me without you?What is the infinity of my domains?Empty ringing words,A spacious temple - without a divinity! -- Mikhail Lermontov
Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. Itâ??s not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action. -- Annie Lobert
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit. -- Hildegard of Bingen
Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty. -- Pope Francis

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