Best 77 quotes in «shallow quotes» category

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

Don't leave my ocean for shallow waters then ask me about the moon.

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

I'm a deep thinker when it comes to shallow no brainers.

I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.

I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry.

It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

The lips know only shallow tunes

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.

Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

Yesterdays depth is feeling very shallow, I wanna go deeper, deeper still.

You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you.

Americans were no more shallow than any other people, just more pampered, so they had come to treasure their shallowness, making pop singers and television actors their most revered leaders. Pampered but lovable. He loved America, even though he held it in contempt. Love and contempt were not incompatible. In fact, one was rarely found without the other.

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him?

Am I shallow? she asks the mirror. Yes, I am shallow. The sun shines on the ripples where it's shallow. Deep is too dark.

I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

Deep breaths are very useful with shallow people.

He’d thought he was over caring what people thought about him. He’d thought that loving Eleanor proved that. But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself.

Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!

Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.

I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind.

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

It wasn't that she was shallow, exactly, but everyone knows, looks are important for media work...