Hollow Quotes - Page 12

• People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.

  Carly Fiorina

  Party, Tired, Offering

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Looks, Balloons, Impressive

  "Debate rages: Is Mexico tough enough on drug trade?", www.cnn.com. March 27, 1998.

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• Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest field has within it the lively potential of everything in creation.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Tree, Fields, Creation

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• To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Men, World

  Matthew Arnold (1867). “New Poems”, p.145

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• A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

  Davy Crockett

  New York, Numbers, Tree

  Davy Crockett (1835). “An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East: In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four. His Object Being to Examine the Grand Manufacturing Establishments of the Country; and Also to Find Out the Condition of Its Literature and Its Morals, the Extent of Its Commerce, and the Practical Operation of "The Experiment" ...”, p.37

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• It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Frozen, World

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics

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• Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Acceptance, Self

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.88, Penguin UK

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• Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry Touch the Spirit there.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Blessed

  Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”

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• Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.

  John Dryden

  Spring, Hands, Mind

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.186

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• Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Offering, Validation, Generosity

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• Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Perception, World, Action

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.425, Simon and Schuster

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• In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath not contracted its wishes, nor set a limit on its hopes; The wing of fancy is unclipped, and sin hath not seared the feelings: Each feature is stamped with immortality, for all its desires are infinite, And it seeketh an ocean of happiness, to fill the deep hollow within.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Morning, Ocean, Simple

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• It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sneak In, Credit, Way

  Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled.

  George Meredith

  Spring, Valleys, Forget

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8194, Library of Alexandria

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• Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Children, Men, Ideas

  Marilyn Monroe (2010). “Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters”, p.165, Macmillan

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• Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

  Alexander Pope

  Giving, Tree, Liberty

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.40

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• A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.

  Austin O'Malley

  Passion, Sea, Tragedy

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• What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Waste, Wasting Time

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.152

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• Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Sweet, Laughter, Echoes

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 54), 2006.

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• Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

  Bram Stoker

  Sweet, Art, Pain

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• Dear little head, that lies in calm content Within the gracious hollow that God made In every human shoulder, where He meant Some tired head for comfort should be laid.

  Celia Thaxter

  Lying, Tired, Contentment

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “The Poems of Celia Thaxter”

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• My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Body, Pairs

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.173, Faber & Faber

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• The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

  Charles Bukowski

  Easter, Children, Clever

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Gold, Teeth, Moral

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.51, Prestwick House Inc

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• Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Routine, Revolution, Violent

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.37, Ardent Media

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