Vacuums Quotes

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.

It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.

God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.

You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

As pissed as a fart in a vacuum cleaner.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

I don’t have a problem with men disposing of their genitals, but it does not make them women, in the same way that shoving a bit of vacuum hose down your 501s does not make you a man.

Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

Change means movement. Movement means friction.

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.

But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some nature hindering species, and resisting it, but because of the lack of a nature suitable for the multiplication of species; for species is a natural thing, and therefore needs a natural medium; but in a vacuum nature does not exist.

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.

If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.

When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.