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Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time… — Kevin Conroy
I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause. — Sarah McLachlan
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act… — Alan Turing
I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world… — Marilyn Manson
I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow,… — Curtis Sliwa
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed… — Charles Caleb Colton
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores… — Douglas Coupland
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone. — Tracy Chapman
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons… — Frederick Douglass
If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But… — William Shakespeare
The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The sculptor must paint with his chisel; half his touches are not to realize, but to put power into, the form. They are touches of… — John Ruskin
Hello, Do not greet anybody when the heart is filled with anger distrust etc. Have, instead, a pure hollow from which a whole hearted Hello… — Sathya Sai Baba
An inflated balloon -- impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured. — Dianne Feinstein
Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. — Matthew Arnold
A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big… — Davy Crockett
It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the… — Matthew Arnold
Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire… — BrenÃ© Brown
Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care,… — Frances Ridley Havergal
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy… — John Dryden
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse -… — Washington Irving
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood. — Franz Kafka
The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. — Gustav Mahler

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