Hollow Kingdom Quotes & Sayings

Security has come from being successful. — Minnie Driver

I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the 'duties' of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I realized the cost of it. I could set aside my responsibilities to others and live my life as I please only when I also severed my ties to them. I could not have it both ways. — Robin Hobb

a Sicilian grandma is a formidable opponent — Traci Andrighetti

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour. — Charles Hazlewood

Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached. — Bertrand Russell

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom — T. S. Eliot

I kissed her like she was my Annabel Lee, and in some ways, in some places in my heart, I think that I'm kissing her still. — Seanan McGuire

The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time. — LeBron James

There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship. — Grimes

Suppose ... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow. — C.S. Lewis

There is no future without forgiveness — Nelson Mandela

Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it! — Terry Pratchett

Big cities comforted me: the cover, the chaos, the hollow sympathy of the architecture, the Tube lines snaking underground. London could swallow you up, in a good way. There were times when I'd been broken and being subsumed into a city had made me feel part of a whole again. — Emma Jane Unsworth

Our father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name,
hollow be thy promises
and shallow be thy shame.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
On a scale from on to ten,
our Lord is totally eleven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
toasted close to dawn,
and forgive us our trespasses
as we shoot those who trespass on our lawn,
and lead us not into temptation,
such as pot or porno,
but deliver us from evil
(if not delivery, then DiGiorno). — Bo Burnham

World was in the face of the beloved
,
but suddenly it poured out and was gone:
world is outside, world can not be grasped.
Why didn't I, from the full, beloved face
as I raised it to my lips, why didn't I drink
world, so near that I couldn't almost taste it?
Ah, I drank. Insatiably I drank.
But I was filled up also, with too much
world, and, drinking, I myself ran over. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It was if happiness and sadness cannot be felt at exactly the same time. You can look forward, or you can look back, but you can't look both ways at the same time. — Kent Allan Rees

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men. — Sam Keen

The murex Dr. Geffard keeps on his desk can entertain her for a half hour, the hollow spines, the ridged whorls, the deep entrance; it's a forest of spikes and caves and textures; it's a kingdom. Her — Anthony Doerr