Hollow Quotes - Page 7

• A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Party, Men, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.92, 谷月社

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• To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

  Richard Dawkins

  Judging, Religion, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now hollow fires burn out to black,
  And lights are fluttering low:
  Square your shoulders, lift your pack
  And leave your friends and go.
  O never fear, lads, naught's to dread,
  Look not to left nor right:
  In all the endless road you tread
  There's nothing but the night.

  Alexander Pope

  Fear, Night, Fire

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• People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.

  L. Neil Smith

  Men, Animal, Gun

  L. Neil Smith (2001). “The Probability Broach”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day,
  And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay,
  And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill,
  While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will,
  "Polly!-Polly!-
  The cows are in the corn!
  Oh, where's Polly?"

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Summer, Mother, Father

  Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

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• At Halloween, when fairy sprites
  Perform their mystic gambols,
  When ilka witch her neebour greets,
  On their nocturnal rambles;
  When elves at midnight-hour are seen,
  Near hollow caverns sportin,
  Then lads an' lasses aft convene,
  In hopes to ken their fortune,
  By freets that night.

  Janet Little

  Halloween, Kids, Night

  Janet Little, “On Halloween”

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• Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

  John Harold

  Life, Trust, Learning

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• Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Passion, Men

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• If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Feelings

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 16 (1932)

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• What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.

  Alice Munro

  Eye, Turkeys, Eggs

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Book, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.785, Simon and Schuster

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• I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

  Reginald McKenna

  Destiny, Government, Hands

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• How hollow to have no secrets left; you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Secret, Shakes, Left

  Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage: A Novel”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow and empty.

  Adam Levine

  Girl, Feelings, Empty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Drunk, Legs, Tables

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.

  Chris Kattan

  Thinking, Self, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What matters is abuse, and how it is anchored in a religion that denies women their rights as humans. What matters is that atrocities against women and children are carried out in Europe. What matters is that governments and societies must stop hiding behind a hollow pretense of tolerance so that they can recognize and deal with the problem.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Children, Europe, What Matters

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Sex, Drama

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside--and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment.

  Cam'ron

  Cake, Accomplishment, Literature

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• Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd.

  Max Lucado

  Believe, People, Water

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• I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life.

  Henry Adams

  Struggle, Men, Satisfaction In Life

  Henry Adams (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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• He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn't have been planned.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Heart, White, Dating

  Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Range of Motion: A Novel”, p.7, Ballantine Books

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• At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky And flinging the cloud and the towers by, Is a place of central calm: So here in the roar of mortal things, I have a place where my spirit sings, In the hollow of God's Palm.

  Edwin Markham

  Heart, Clouds, Sky

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• Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sex, Epic, Love Is

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.124, Ballantine Books

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• Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Dhammapada, Bringing Peace

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