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  • 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.

  • True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which, when carried out too severely, may intensify the inward ferment of the mind, especially in the young. It is rather a state of stable equilibrium; it is not vacancy, but stability -- the steadfastness of a single purpose.

    Mind   Inward   Vacancy  
    Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”
  • The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus”, p.24, First Avenue Editions
  • He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

  • God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that vacancy. Man enters upon a spiritual ice age; the established churches can no longer provide more than Eskimo huts where their shivering flock huddles together.

    Spiritual   Men   Ice  
  • Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

    Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.143
  • Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

    Hurt   Heart   Missing  
    Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.62, tredition
  • 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.

    1959 'In Place of a Curse'.
  • How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.

    Reality   Vacancy   Gone  
    Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage
  • Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies.

    Home   Towers   Vacancy  
    Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers
  • If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

    Letter to Elias Shipman and others, 12 July 1801.
  • The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?

    Lonely   Way   Vacancy  
  • Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

    Sports   Years   Use  
    William Wilberforce (1835). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country Contrasted with Real Christians”, p.159
  • The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

    Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.423
  • Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.

    Jobs   Men   Giving  
    B. Traven (1963). “The Treasure the Sierra Madre”
  • That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.

    Taken   Law   Two  
    "The Federal and State Constitutions Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America" compiled and edited by Newton Thorpe, Washington, DC : Government Printing Office, 1909.
  • I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager. . .and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that. . .

  • Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create a situation where the amount demanded is greater than the amount supplied - a shortage - fear of losing customers is no longer as strong an incentive. For example, landlords typically reduce painting and repairs when there is rent control, because there is no need to fear vacancies when there are more tenants looking for apartments than there are apartments available.

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

  • Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.

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

  • All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

    Life   Mind   Vacancy  
  • A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

    Men   Waiting   Vacancy  
  • A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.

    Sweet   Night   Sorrow  
    'The Ghost' (1918)
  • 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.

    Sky   Vacancy   Bleach  
  • 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.

    Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.46, Univ of California Press
  • Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

    Stars   Dust   People  
    H. G. Wells (1898). “The War of the Worlds”, p.9
  • There's a vacancy, won't you come to me And fill my empty spaces I'm a motel man in a promised land That's filled with empty faces So won't you bring your sorrows bring your dreams, It's a place for you to be There's no more tomorrow or that's how it seems Won't you come to me? I've got a vacancy

    Dream   Men   Land  
    Song: Vacancy, 1974
  • I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.

    Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]
  • Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

    Betrayal   Blow   Men  
    'The Borderers' (1842) act 3, l. 1539
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