Quotes About Hollow Words

#1. But she was uncomfortable with what the professors called 'participation,' and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely made students talk and talk, class time wasted on obvious words, hollow words, sometimes meaningless words.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Buddha

#3. I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

Catherine Fisher

#4. He had walked on the beach and wished for icy winds to sweep away everything that sounded like mere linguistic habit, a malicious kind of habit that prevented thinking by producing the illusion that it had already taken place and found its conclusion in the hollow words.

Pascal Mercier

#5. 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.

Stacy Schiff

#6. Karna gave a mirthless smile and replied evenly,'What is the use of a competition if one cannot be compared with others? Talk is the weapon of the weak; release your arrows instead of hollow words.

Kavita Kane

#7. For the first time she called it sex. With no time or desire to analyze her words, he shook off an unidentifiable hollow sensation forming in his middle.

Kim Carmichael

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

John Harold

#9. The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War.

Aleister Crowley

#10. There is something in that, I know there is, because it does not sound too sweet; it is not like such words as Liberty, Excitement, Enjoyment; delightful sounds truly; but no more than sounds for me; and so hollow and fleeting that it is mere waste of time to listen to them.

Charlotte Bronte

#11. was achingly hollow inside, her words dropping like copper pennies down an empty well.

Natasha Boyd

#12. They're fighting an infection in his leg. Trying to save it - save him. But you saved his life out there in the field, no doubt about that." The praise felt so hollow Ben was surprised the words didn't echo. "He can't die," Ben whispered. "I need to see him." "He'll

Annabeth Albert

#13. I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss.

Jill Scott

#14. Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

Anna Quindlen

#15. The body can feed the body only.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#17. She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences that welled up between their words, sometimes cold and hollow, sometimes pregnant with things that went unsaid, like a cloud filled with rain that never fell.

Khaled Hosseini

#18. Olivia was a quiet child, but her lack of response was uncharacteristic. She stared at her mother with wide, frightened eyes, her mouth open, a hollow cave devoid of words. Something was wrong. Very wrong.

Caroline Mitchell

#19. You send a message by what you say and what you do. If words aren't supported with consistent actions, they will ring hollow.

Frank Sonnenberg

#20. Kind words are lime to snare our enemies! I hold you in the hollow of my hand and have no need to waste kind words.

Oscar Wilde

#21. You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow.

Wes Streeting

#22. There is only one you on the globe today. You have been built to inspire and designed to dazzle. Live your uniqueness!

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#23. By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

Adam Smith

#24. Peace ... Henrietta was not quite sure what it was but she knew it was very important. If one wanted it, Grandfather had told her once, one must not hit back when fate hit hard but must allow the hammer-strokes to batter out a hollow place inside one into which peace, like cool water, could flow.

Elizabeth Goudge

#25. Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Charles J. Givens

#26. His words hung hollow between us, the knowledge that I'd given him my virginity, my body, my heart, my everything, only for him to walk away in a few weeks shredded me.

Aria Cole

#27. I tossed myself back on my bed and stared up at the ceiling. I wanted to hate him. I wanted to call him a selfish cow and go on about how he'd led me on and forced me to fall for him, but the words felt hollow. He was

R.S. Grey

#28. I'm very interested in everything. The words fell with a hollow flatness on to Jay Cee's desk, like so many wooden nickels.

Sylvia Plath

#29. There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Alexandra David-Neel

#30. Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

George Steiner

#31. Words have all died in the hollow of time, piling up soundlessly at the dark
bottom of a volcanic lake.

Haruki Murakami

#32. Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

Mooji

#33. The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.

George Steiner

#34. The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

Bob Dylan

#35. i don't love you. i'm in lovve with an illusion. i'd known heartache before, but what was happening now couldn't be described as heartache. those words had shattered my soul. i felt hollow and lost. and like i could easily drown in the searing pain making its way through my body

Molly McAdams

#36. Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.

Helen Oyeyemi

#37. Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester's cap and bells.

Michel Foucault

#38. Can we live without Russian gas in Europe? The answer is no. Are there any reasons to live without it? I think - and I'm not defending the interests of Total in Russia - it is a no.

Christophe De Margerie

#39. 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.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#40. Status is hollow without money, words are useless without actions, beauty is ephemeral without heart, and men are incomplete without women. Nowadays, why are men marrying men then?'

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