On the subject of pragmatism and material values: Miss Universe is similar to one of those quiz shows where nobody goes home empty-handed.(在實用主義和實際價值上這個議題上，環球小姐和智力問答節目一樣，沒有人會空手而歸。)

I cannot go home empty-handed. If I went home, they would be saying, ‘What have you been doing with yourself, Amadou?’(我更愿意死在這里”我不能空著手回去，如果我回去，他們就會問，你一直在干什么？)

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed.(若不是我父親以撒所敬畏的神，就是亞伯拉罕的神與我同在，你如今必定打發我空手而去。)

She admits that she is homesick but is terrified to return to Cameroon empty-handed.(她承認思念家鄉，但害怕空手回到喀麥隆。)

Lord Hertford flew to Tom, but returned to the King before very long, troubled and empty-handed.(赫德福伯爵飛跑到湯姆那里，但不久就回到了國王那里，兩手空空，心里很不安。)

The beggars didn’t beg empty-handed, as in Istanbul; instead, they’d stand under your window playing the accordion.(乞丐們不像在伊斯坦布爾那樣空手乞討；而是站在你的窗戶下拉手風琴。)

You're tired of logging on and coming up empty-handed.(你厭倦了登陸和接二連三的徒勞無獲。)

If this horrible thing happens to married ones, they will leave their family silently and empty-handed.(如果這種可怕的事情發生在已婚的蝎子們身上，他們會空著兩手悄悄地離開自己的家庭。)

And added, "he gave me these six measures of barley, saying, 'Don't go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.'"(又說：“那人給了我六簸箕大麥，對我說：‘你不可空手回去見你的婆婆?！?

No one shall appear before me empty-handed.(任何人都不應出現在我面前空手而歸。)