Hollow Quotations

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps.

When my kids were toddlers, they had all these rotomolded plastic things. My life became surrounded by big, hollow plastic toys - from the scale of playhouses down to rocking horses, and everything in between - which we would then take to the secondhand store. But we'd get sentimentally attached and hate to see them go.

Turkey Hollow is a small country town in Sullivan County, a remote region of the Catskill Mountains. Surrounded by forests, it counts 10 full-time residents, has no mail service, and no cell phone reception. However, what it lacks in amenities, it compensates for in sheer natural wonder.

Quail Hollow is always going to be a special spot for me, and winning there gave me a little more credibility. But I want to be a multiple winner on the PGA Tour.

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

Reality does not easily give up meaning; it's the biographer's job to clobber it into submission. You're meant not only to tame it but to extract substance, to identify cause and axiomatic effect. You subsist on the tactical omissions, the hollow words, the oddly unconnected dots.

There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.

We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.

I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

Simon is really his savior, but he put himself at risk. He did something unethical for moral reasons. It's hard to imagine him doing that now. He's become a hollow man. He's a very compromised man and that's what makes him such a wonderful American character. Audiences respond strongly, especially the attorneys.

She looks -- honestly, she looks like she is in a concentration camp. She's beginning to hollow out. It's awful. It's awful to have to sit back and watch this process happen to anybody. We live in America. I can't even believe I'm sitting here discussing this. It's sick.

May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind be ever at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rain fall soft upon your fields, And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand. And may you be in Heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.

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

Brush Hollow has more weeds and muck where mercury changes form more often.

Basically, we're going to either have a hollow force or a truncated force structure -- the message here is that we couldn't really afford Iraq and our current military. If Boeing and Lockheed Martin aren't thinking like that in public, they are in private.

If Boeing does cave and give them something like what they want, it will be a bit of a hollow victory because in the long run it will probably result in increased outsourcing.

Hello, Do not greet anybody when the heart is filled with anger distrust etc. Have, instead, a pure hollow from which a whole hearted Hello emanates.

He not only saw pictures of African art in books; he was exposed to African art from many of the former French colonies. He learnt from Africa how to turn convex into concave, how to turn chubby cheeks into hollow cheeks.

His positions on important issues are hollow and shift like the sand on the beach. ... He is everyone's friend and no one's ally.

Kerry's words will ring hollow in light of the fact that he helped block the president's energy bill to increase America's energy independence through more renewable energy usage.

is a hollow gesture, because we don't want words. We want actions.

Restructuring is the first step and that's the easy part, but what they don't have yet is a viable business model. The market won't accept hollow promises.

Stay for me there; I will not fail / To meet thee in that hollow vale. / And think not much of my delay; / I am already on the way.

Some of the internal nasal anatomy is still there, ... The maxillary sinuses -- which is the hollow part of your facial bone -- are open; and the right eye appears to be gone.

While a strike of a couple of weeks might be doable, some kind of accommodation would have to be reached. If Boeing does cave and give them something like what they want, it will be a bit of a hollow victory because in the long run it will probably result in increased outsourcing.

Unless you are willing to change that Supreme Court and make it a pro-life constitutionalist court, your position is fraudulent and it is hollow and it is shallow,

The PRC was harsh in tone but hollow in substance.

The fact of the matter is we'll get $450 million dollars of that market back, but the other $400 million we won't with the current agreement. We're looking at a hollow victory.

Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.

Yes .... This item has weight to it, but it is not solid. This is metal, but is hollow metal and under the right circumstances may have been sufficient to cause severe lacerations without leaving any skull fracture.

While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.

What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on

You have to say that it could be a hollow victory, a pyrrhic victory, for the eventual winner if you will. We had a situation back in 1876, I'm told, where Rutherford B. Hayes won, but he was called Ruther 'fraud' B. Hayes for his whole term, and I think there's going to be a lot of sniping at the eventual winner as someone perhaps who won a tainted election,

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.

They are all hollow shells, and the soil goes right through. It's a process of sculpting the earth up. I'm trying to combine everything that I love in an unbridled way.

The survey sent out with taxpayer dollars has many parents scared about their children's future. The threats include increasing class size to maximum levels, the addition of portable trailers for children, and the very hollow threat of year-round schools.

I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.

Put down your hollow tips and kiss your lovers lips and learn that fate is what you make of it

Days of wanting.Let them go by without worrying that they do.Stay where you areinside such a pure, hollow note.

A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds

You never say this is the make or break, but there were a lot of hollow promises last year. You can't go on promising and under-delivering, can you?.

This is not a hollow gesture. This is an unprecedented release of industry material.

The way was through lanes bounded by elms, which, though not yet in full leaf, were so closely interwoven in the bank with a luxurious growth of holly, that nothing was to be seen beyond them - till on a sudden the road, ascending a steep hollow way, opened to a kind of common field, forming the top of a high promontory, commanding an immense extent of the sea, and, for many miles, the indented cliffs of the western coast.

It's hard to legislate, because public officials do have a legitimate role in bringing important issues to the community. This really involves personal judgment. In this case, it's a hollow attempt to improve Steele's image.

It's very encouraging they're funding more inspectors. The mine safety bill the legislature passed would have been a hollow victory to some extent without this money to be sure additional inspections can be made.

They've kept these guys in isolation or solitary confinement, so to speak, for three years. I think they overstated this to begin with. ... They, by their own words, made this a hollow victory, if anything.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.

If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.

In the very early days, we rehearsed and wrote songs?;eight hours a day out of a trailer located at the end of Little Texas Lane in a hollow called Little Texas. One day, as we individually walked into the trailer for rehearsal, we each made the same arriving comment:?;'What about calling our band?;Little Texas?' And we've been Little Texas ever since.

He's still a hero. It's just a really hollow feeling because he didn't get to test out all the work he had done.

How beautiful they are, / The lordly ones, / Who dwell in the hills, / In the hollow hills.

It was hollow, my triumph, I could feel that, but I held on to it just the same.

I feel better than I did when I was walking around Quail Hollow at the Wachovia Championship in May, but I don't think we're out of the woods.

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!

The guy went to hit the big time. He did well in hockey in high school and college and went to New York to join a great law firm and was going to be a partner and was married to a rich, beautiful girl, ... He was following his dream and along the way, he realized how hollow it was. He realized how really unhappy he was. That was in my mind more than anything, not how a lawyer acts.

The great psychic fear in the Justice Department is that it will achieve a hollow victory, ... There will be this declaration of a violation of the law, but they will not have effective solutions to restore competition.

A hollow voice is all I have / But this I tell you plain, / Marry come up! - you marry, Ma'am, / And I'll come up again.

The certainly of a constitutional challenge makes this a hollow gesture.

The market is like Sleepy Hollow today, there's very little going on and now there's fewer and fewer players out there. It drifts, it depends on the last trade.

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.

Within the hollow crownThat rounds the mortal temples of a kingKeeps Death his court.

People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling--that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.

Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?' said Arthur. / Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. / 'Forty-two!' he said with a malicious grin, 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

How hollow and full of ribaldry is the heart of man!

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.