Quotes about Hollow
He tries to picture how it will end, with an empty baseball field, a dark factory, and then over a brook in a dirt road, he doesn't know. He pictures a huge vacant field of cinders and his heart goes hollow.
- John Updike
Love will always suffer. If the church tries to win victories either all in a rush or by steps taken in some other spirit, it may appear to succeed for a while. Think of the pomp and "glory" of the late medieval church. But the "victory" will be hollow and will leave all kinds of problems in its wake.
- NT Wright
Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
- Exodus 27:8
Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.
- Exodus 38:7
Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.
- 1 Samuel 12:21
Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.
- Proverbs 25:14
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.
- Jeremiah 52:21
Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.
- Zephaniah 1:11
I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
- Zechariah 1:8
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.
- Charles Dickens
Those who are in pain — most of the world's populations at any given moment — do not do a lot of thinking, speaking, or writing about suffering. All their energy goes into surviving. That is why a lot of what is said and written about suffering seems hollow to those actually in pain.
- Luke Timothy Johnson
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
- Washington Irving