Quotes About Hollow

Our culture abounds with hollow and deceptive theories of change that masquerade as biblical wisdom, often because they borrow some aspect of biblical truth. Yet they are hollow because they miss the center of biblical wisdom, which is Christ.

You're a ghost! Eddie cried. You're empty and you have nothing inside you.

If you open this you'll see it's empty, and you'll wonder for a sec if it was empty when you gave it yo me--I can see it--another empty gesture you slipped into my hand like a bad bribe.

Language and words for psychopaths are only word deep; there is no emotional colouring behind it. A psychopath can use a word like, 'I love you' but it means nothing more to him than if he said, 'I'll have a cup of coffee.'

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

she looked at me then everything emptied out of her eyes and they looked like the eyes in statues blank and unseeing and serene put

The individual's religion may be egotistic, and those private realities which it keeps in touch with may be narrow enough; but at any rate it always remains infinitely less hollow and abstract, as far as it goes, than a science which prides itself on taking no account of anything private at all.

Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception.

Bakunin's brilliant predictions of the consequences of Marx's statism have not become the foundation for a developing anti-statist praxis, but rather a hollow chorus of "we told you so.

Sleep on, my Love, in thy cold bed,Never to be disquieted!My last good-night! Thou wilt not wake,Till I thy fate shall overtake;Till age, or grief, or sickness, mustMarry my body to that dustIt so much loves, and fill the roomMy heart keeps empty in thy tomb.Stay for me there; I will not failTo meet thee in that hollow vale.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.

But the effects were hidden, evident only in the sterility of their art, which continued to feed off the vitality of other cultures, and in the dissolution of their consciousness into dead objects: the plastic and neon, the concrete and steel. Hollow and lifeless as a witchery clay figure. And what little still remained to white people was shriveled like a seed hoarded too long, shrunken past its time, and split open now, to expose a fragile, pale leaf stem, perfectly formed and dead.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

Deep in December it's nice to remember without a hurt the heart is hollow.

It was important not to show any emotion. But I felt hollow, like if you blew across my lips I would sound a note, deep and low.

The corpse of a NightWing guard lay beneath the dirt in a hastily dug hollow,

Hollow slogans like Making your country great again only lead to one result, collapse.

The speeches! They were filled with borrowed things--borrowed over and over again until the words were nothing more than a series of clichés.

When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home. - Scarey Monsters (and Super Creeps)

His eyes were holes in the world.

The Union itself, the late A.Y. ('V.F.') Rickey's summum opus, is a great hollow brain-frame, an endowed memorial to the North American seat of Very High Tech, and is not as ghastly as out-of-towners suppose it must be, though the vitreally inflated balloon-eyes, deorbited and hung by twined blue cords from the

When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith: But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show, and promise of their mettle.

Mere prattle without practice