Hollow City Summary Quotes

#1. Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.

Parker Palmer

#2. Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

Ingmar Bergman

#3. I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

Joseph Hall

#4. He was hounded by the shade of his brother, demanding terribly the price of blood... William of Malmesbury, the History of the English Kings.

Patricia Bracewell

#5. Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. The mere existence of sanctions is not sufficient to ensure compliance. If no attention is paid to supervision, there is a risk that sectors that resist the requirements will not comply with them or will comply less thoroughly than they should. Regular and thorough supervision enhances compliance.

International Monetary Fund

#7. I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

Peter Eisenman

#8. Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

Hu Shih

#9. A breeding sow spends most of her life in a tiny cage. It's usually about seven feet long and two feet wide. She cannot turn around. She cannot scratch herself. She must urinate and defecate where she stands. Simply put, I believe she is tortured, day in and day out.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#10. Breath. A man's breath was his life. Exhaled, bit by bit, back into the world. Kaladin breathed deeply, eyes closed, and for a time that was all he could hear. His own life. In, out, to the beating of the thunder in his chest. Breath. His own little storm.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Walter Alston

#12. Man,ought to take care o his own business.don't you think, Mr. Mayor?

R.S. Belcher