Vacancy Quotations

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness,It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement ;But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired,To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

At the next vacancy for God, if I am elected, I shall forgive last the delicately wounded who, having been slugged no harder than anyone else, never got up again, neither to fight back, nor to finger their jaws in painful admiration.

Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.

No one stands on the top of the world. Not you, not me, not even gods. But the unbearable vacancy of the throne in the sky is over. From now on... I will be sitting on it.

Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of—and which, if wrested away without the substitution of another something in its place, would leave a void and a vacancy as painful to the mind, as hunger is to the natural system…. The heart must have something to cling to…

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.