Hollow Words Quotes

Many words are spoken when there’s nothing to say.

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

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

… only an empty political formula

Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom.

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved

We lose credibility when we make idle threats.

In this region declarations, speeches, words are worthless.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

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.

Fair words enough a man shall find, They be good cheap: they cost right nought, Their substance is but only wind.

So, of course, Gish's presentation was well received, which it would have been the case had he only gotten up and said "praise the Lord" and sat back down.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

There's nothing to Obama - nothing but platitudes. When it's time to get to the substance, we get contradictions and confusions. We don't think that he knows what he's talking about because it's true: He doesn't.

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

Such platitudes as "If you believe it, it will happen," "If you give 100%, you get 100%," "Good things happen to good people" people utter when we don't know what else to say. There's comfort in platitudes, and every so often they're accurate, but mainly they're hollow words. It's a sign of how little we're able to directly address the world around us. The language of the times reveals our avoidance.

Our public men are speaking every day on something, but they ain't saying anything.

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

I think talk is cheap - when I hear people say what they'd like to happen, I think it's empty.