Quotes about Shallow

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Votes: 8

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Votes: 8

Shallow men believe in luck. Votes: 6

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. Votes: 6

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties. Votes: 6

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. Votes: 6

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets. Votes: 6

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. Votes: 6

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Votes: 6

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow. Votes: 6

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. Votes: 6

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Votes: 6

I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off. Votes: 6

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. Votes: 6

Only the shallow know themselves. Votes: 4

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. Votes: 4

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. Votes: 4

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it. Votes: 4

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel. Votes: 4

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. Votes: 4

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move. Votes: 4

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. Votes: 4

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody. Votes: 4

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. Votes: 4

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. Votes: 4

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God. Votes: 3

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away. Votes: 3

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder Votes: 3

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion. Votes: 3

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me. Votes: 3

Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism. Votes: 3

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls. Votes: 3

As a healer, the first thing to tell every patient is to breathe deeply. Shallow breathing means no endurance, no patience. Votes: 3

True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear Votes: 3

Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister. Votes: 3

Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes. Votes: 3

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done. Votes: 3

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done. Votes: 3

I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel. Votes: 3

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect. Votes: 3

I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or gratuitous shock value in place of having a heart. For example: movies that combine extremely sadistic violence with humor I find offensive. Votes: 3

In all seriousness, the first book [The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year] was such a love letter to Wacha, that I think people will be interested and surprised to see that I had some challenges with him in year two. Votes: 3

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. Votes: 3

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. Votes: 2

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow. Votes: 2

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. Votes: 2

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. Votes: 2

Our culture is all about shallow relationships. But that doesn't mean we should stop looking each other in the eye and having deep conversations. Votes: 2

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom. Votes: 2

Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff. Votes: 2

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start. Votes: 2

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally. Votes: 2

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set. Votes: 2

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. Votes: 2

Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide. Votes: 2

There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal. Votes: 2

Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly. Votes: 2

Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I'm very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something. Votes: 2

Childlike does not mean shallow. Votes: 0

The lips know only shallow tunes Votes: 0

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting. Votes: 0

Deep down I'm a very shallow person. Votes: 0

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. Votes: 0

With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow. Votes: 0

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man. Votes: 0

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. Votes: 0

Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I'm shallow. Votes: 0

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. Votes: 0

I have a really shallow idea about what Australia is. Votes: 0

Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me. Votes: 0

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations. Votes: 0

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party. Votes: 0

Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking. Votes: 0

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short. Votes: 0

No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow. Votes: 0

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep. Votes: 0

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea. Votes: 0

There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person Votes: 0

I'm a deep thinker when it comes to shallow no brainers. Votes: 0

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments. Votes: 0

The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly! Votes: 0

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. Votes: 0

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions. Votes: 0

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace. Votes: 0

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity. Votes: 0

It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships. Votes: 0

Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom. Votes: 0

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage. Votes: 0

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women. Votes: 0

Yesterdays depth is feeling very shallow, I wanna go deeper, deeper still. Votes: 0

It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep. Votes: 0

Are men shallow? Should we be looking for inner beauty? Ha, ha. Votes: 0

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave. Votes: 0

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow. Votes: 0

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women, Votes: 0

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties. Votes: 0

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow! Votes: 0

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. Votes: 0

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures. Votes: 0

Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream. Votes: 0

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds. Votes: 0

Don't leave my ocean for shallow waters then ask me about the moon. Votes: 0

My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses. Votes: 0

Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value. Votes: 0

Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow. Votes: 0

I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants. Votes: 0

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is. Votes: 0

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. Votes: 0

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important. Votes: 0

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality. Votes: 0

A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying. Votes: 0

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered. Votes: 0

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end. Votes: 0

Marriage is deep. Don't marry someone shallow, it will cause both of you to drown Votes: 0

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated. Votes: 0

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time. Votes: 0

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden. Votes: 0

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow. Votes: 0

A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity. Votes: 0

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them. Votes: 0

The price of shallow sex may be a corresponding loss of capacity for deep love. Votes: 0

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat. Votes: 0

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating. Votes: 0

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Votes: 0

I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments. Votes: 0

My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor. Votes: 0

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; Votes: 0

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end. Votes: 0

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn. Votes: 0

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex. Votes: 0

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom. Votes: 0

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. Votes: 0

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow. Votes: 0

The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky. Votes: 0

I hate superficial violence. It's shallow and stupid, and the impact on the audience is really bad. Votes: 0

Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem. Votes: 0

My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks. Votes: 0

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes. Votes: 0

If the only reason I coached was to win basketball games, my life would be pretty shallow Votes: 0

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account. Votes: 0

No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound. Votes: 0

In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you. Votes: 0

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. Votes: 0

Some days, I'm as shallow as a baking pan, but I still stretch miles in all directions. Votes: 0

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret? Votes: 0

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. Votes: 0

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins? Votes: 0

I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking. Votes: 0

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham. Votes: 0

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection. Votes: 0

But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her. Votes: 0

He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. Votes: 0

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person. Votes: 0

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals. Votes: 0

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. Votes: 0

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. Votes: 0

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality. Votes: 0

You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds. Votes: 0

It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out. Votes: 0

In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward! Votes: 0

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. Votes: 0

Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water. Votes: 0

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. Votes: 0

I'm in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves. Votes: 0

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one. Votes: 0

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. Votes: 0

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected. Votes: 0

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. Votes: 0

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. Votes: 0

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Votes: 0

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time Votes: 0

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless. Votes: 0

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in. Votes: 0

The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints. Votes: 0

... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ... Votes: 0

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good. Votes: 0

A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto. Votes: 0

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. Votes: 0

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps. Votes: 0

It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated. Votes: 0

...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing? Votes: 0

Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow. Votes: 0

People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest. Votes: 0

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible. Votes: 0

oh god i live in sea of shallow people ..i hope someday find who really deeper than every book i read it.. Votes: 0

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. Votes: 0

In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle. Votes: 0

All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion. Votes: 0

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow. Votes: 0

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart. Votes: 0

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea. Votes: 0

Life is a hot day, perhaps death is a cool night. Life is a shallow bay, perhaps death is a clear, deep sea. Votes: 0

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others. Votes: 0

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short. Votes: 0

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood. Votes: 0

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings. Votes: 0

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow. Votes: 0

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by Votes: 0

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have. Votes: 0

Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping. Votes: 0

The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting. Votes: 0

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength. Votes: 0

I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes. Votes: 0

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often. Votes: 0

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place. Votes: 0

Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting. Votes: 0

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. Votes: 0

A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process. Votes: 0

We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow. Votes: 0

Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over. Votes: 0

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation. Votes: 0

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws. Votes: 0

Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth. Votes: 0

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think. Votes: 0

There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow. Votes: 0

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation. Votes: 0

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth. Votes: 0

I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands. Votes: 0

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again. Votes: 0

A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again. Votes: 0

Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most beautiful woman in the world. Votes: 0

It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time. Votes: 0

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed. Votes: 0

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading. Votes: 0

People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have. Votes: 0

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years. Votes: 0

You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow. Votes: 0

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage. Votes: 0

I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school. Votes: 0

We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love them in a way. Votes: 0

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change. Votes: 0

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit. Votes: 0

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties. Votes: 0

The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world. Votes: 0

I'm a shallow, shallow boy. Hey, it helps that you're pretty. It brings out the nice guy in me. Makes me what to share my cookies with you. Votes: 0

Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality. Votes: 0

For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted. Votes: 0

[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies. Votes: 0

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom. Votes: 0

In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory? Votes: 0

She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together. Votes: 0

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow. Votes: 0

When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life. Votes: 0

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap Votes: 0

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast. Votes: 0

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. Votes: 0

On a surface level, all one finds is repeated forms of shallow whispers. Having the courage to explore deeply, a wealth of buried infinite lifetimes emerge - an undeniable force. Votes: 0

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life. Votes: 0

Put money in it's place. Money can buy you cars, houses, trinkets, fleeting sex, shallow companionship, cheap attention, and unfulfilled status. However, it can't buy you peace, love, or happiness. Votes: 0

I've never played a character that is just beautiful, but sometimes you can read scripts that sound so shallow, like women are objects. I've never done something like that, though. Votes: 0

People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but its actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it. Votes: 0

If circumstances are always the rulers, the shallow existence of instant gratification will keep us as mere spectators of our lives. Get up! Clarify! Get in the game and live! Votes: 0

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts. Votes: 0

Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's what names are like for me. Votes: 0

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone). Votes: 0

We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom. Votes: 0

The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it. Votes: 0

Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living. Votes: 0

Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones. Votes: 0

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean. Votes: 0

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! Votes: 0

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless. Votes: 0

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality Votes: 0

In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure. Votes: 0

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think the mission for the writer is to tell stories in a compelling way about the stuff that cannot be talked about, that cannot be gotten at with shallow media. Votes: 0

When she reached the shallow end, Kingsley held out his hand and pulled her up, but she lost her step and fell into his arms, her body crushing momentarily against his. Votes: 0

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination Votes: 0

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems. Votes: 0

I didn't feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless. Votes: 0

Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women. Votes: 0

Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts. Votes: 0

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is! Votes: 0

Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Votes: 0

Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since. Votes: 0

The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes sends Mirabelle into a shallow hypnotic dream. Votes: 0

Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not. Votes: 0

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song. Votes: 0

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow. Votes: 0

You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart." "And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself. Votes: 0

I'm the exact same person I was before (cancer). I'm still shallow, I still love clothes, I still want to talk fashion, I still want to gossip, so lay it on me. Votes: 0

You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently. Votes: 0

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives. Votes: 0

It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you? Votes: 0

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow. Votes: 0

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen! Votes: 0

A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing. Votes: 0

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool. Votes: 0

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment. Votes: 0

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Votes: 0

Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous. Votes: 0

"¦their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort. Votes: 0

Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind. Votes: 0

If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many. Votes: 0

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fast food, fast money, shallow thinking, shallow interpretations. This is now what I deal with everyday. Art was meant to be about freedom, about having the courage to explore what it means to be human. Votes: 0

Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise. Votes: 0

Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whatever you're doing for a couple of minutes five times a day, closing your eyes and taking deep breaths. Votes: 0

Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them. Votes: 0

In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies. Votes: 0

Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail. Votes: 0

I used to turn my shoulders pretty level, which a lot of golfers think is correct. But that made my swing too shallow coming into impact, so my contact was picky, especially off the turf. Votes: 0

The thing I don't like about L.A. is that it's very industry-focused. That's not bad for kids. It's not hedonistic or anything, not any more shallow than anybody in the Midwest. It's not that. Votes: 0

Commercials are not the only junk food in the speech market - indeed, when compared to shallow news reporting, vacuous television shows, or political doublespeak, commercials are not even the most harmful to mental health. Votes: 0