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  • I think the worst atmosphere for a six-year-old is one in which there are no expectations whatsoever. That is, it's worse for the child to grow up in a vacuum where "whatever you do is alright, I'm sure you'll succeed." That is a statement of disinterest. It says, "I really have no fantasies for you at all."

    Source: scottlondon.com
  • My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.

    Heart   Vacuums   Process  
    Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.159, Penguin
  • America created a vacuum in Iraq and ISIS formed. But had we taken the oil something else would've very good happened. They would not have been able to fuel their rather unbelievable drive to destroy large portions of the world.

    Taken   Isis   Oil  
    Source: www.smh.com.au
  • My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

    God   Spiritual   Jesus  
  • Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.

    Simple   Vacuums   Purity  
    Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.101, Verso
  • A terrible cold world of ice and death had replaced the living world we had always known. Outside there was only the deadly cold, the frozen vacuum of an ice age, life reduced to mineral crystals. [. . .] I drove at great speed, as if escaping, pretending we could escape. Although I knew there was no escape from the ice, from the ever-diminishing remnant of time that encapsuled us.

    Escaping   Ice   Age  
  • You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

    Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com
  • Hillary Clinton gave us ISIS, because her and Obama created this huge vacuum, and a small group came out of that huge vacuum because when - we should never have been in Iraq, but once we were there, we should have never got out the way they wanted to get out.

    Isis   Should Have   Iraq  
  • 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.

    Clothes   Space   Vacuums  
    Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
  • There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

    "Values of the Wise: Humanity's Highest Aspirations". Book by Jason Merchey, 2003.
  • Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.

  • Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.

    Sea   Ideas   Vacuums  
    Cynthia Ozick (2006). “The Din in the Head”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.

    Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

    Age   Vacuums   Young  
  • We've got to do everything we can to vacuum up intelligence from Europe, from the Middle East. That means we've got to work more closely with our allies, and that's something that Donald [Trump] has been very dismissive of.

    Mean   Europe   Allies  
    "Trump vs. Clinton: Full Transcript Of First Presidential Debate 2016". www.ibtimes.com. September 27, 2016.
  • Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

    Change   Vacuums   Filled  
    Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co
  • I think personal actions definitely matter. I think collectively they can make a big difference. But I also think that people don't live in a vacuum.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.

    Might   Fields   Vacuums  
  • Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts.

    Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1006, Dell
  • A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

  • There's only one thing that separates us from animals: We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.

  • Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.

    War   Fighting   Thinking  
    "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.
  • Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

  • How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.

    Jobs   Hands   Years  
  • Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.

    George F. Kennan (2012). “American Diplomacy: Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition”, p.26, University of Chicago Press
  • If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

    Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.159, Transaction Publishers
  • Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.

    Dog   Winter   Men  
    Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”
  • Secretary Clinton is talking about taking out ISIS. "We will take out ISIS." Well, President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

    Isis   Talking   Iraq  
    Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.
  • Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.

    "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.
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