Hollowing Quotes

#1. America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.

Bobby Jindal

#2. In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a tree where you can build your nest and say, This is my niche, this is where I live now, this is where I belong.

Anne Lamott

#3. As I write this I feel that draining hollowing helplessness that genuine love for another person produces in you. It's at these moments that we know we are going to die.

William Boyd

#4. Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in the dirt. There were more than two bodies buried here. Pieces of me that I didn't even know were under the ground. Pieces of dad, too.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine volition and service is with us still.

Julian Jaynes

#6. Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

Georges Seurat

#7. The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children.

Halldor Laxness

#8. If you think you can experience the power of the Internet on a 1-inch screen, you've got to be out of your mind.

Martin Cooper

#9. I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got a degree in drama, so I know about stories, characterizations, plot arcs, and the like. Lots of game designers can do one or the other: I've got the skills for both.

Brendan Myers

#10. Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win.

Debasish Mridha

#11. After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#12. I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#13. A wave is a pretty thing to look at when it breaks on the beach, but too many only make you seasick.

Stephen King

#14. Even in the midst of difficult times when everything seems to be out of control, you can still control one thing. You can commit yourself to pray every day and to trust God no matter the circumstances, so He could guide you and fill you with His peace that surpasses all understanding.

Yilda B. Rivera