Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to drown yourself, don’t torture yourself with shallow water. — Bulgarian Proverbs
Many a good tree grew on shallow ground — Irish Proverbs
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. — Anais Nin
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. — Christopher Reeve
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. — Thomas Carlyle
Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shallow men believe in luck. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some days, I'm as shallow as a baking pan, but I still stretch miles in all directions. — Rives
Shallow Image Quotes
Only the shallow know themselves.
Being Shallow Quotes
We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out. — Thomas Mcguane
Observe the reality as it is. As it is, not as you wish it to be. Perhaps your breath is deep. Perhaps your breath is shallow. Perhaps you breathed in through the left nostril. Perhaps you breathed in through the right nostril. It makes no difference. — S. N. Goenka
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. — J. K. Rowling
Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand.
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. — Oscar Wilde
To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals. — Michael Bassey
You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others — Tariq Ramadan
I must be a mermaid... I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing? — R.D. Blackmore
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). — Eric S. Raymond
If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian. — Harry Blamires
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. — Winona Ryder
Shallow Water Quotes
Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful. — David Lynch
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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. — Thomas Woods
I must be mermaid, I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
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. — Neville Goddard
Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision of faith. When a young Celtic monk saw his cat catch a salmon swimming in shallow water, he cried, "The power of the Lord is in the paw of the cat! — Brennan Manning
Don't leave my ocean for shallow waters then ask me about the moon. — dream hampton
Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow! — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Shallow Person Quotes
Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser. — Che Guevara
We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone. — Robert M. Pirsig
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties. — Barbara Walters
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. — Dolly Parton
There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person — Garrett Hardin
Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'. — Robert H. Schuller
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. — Peter Farrelly
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. — Charles M. Schulz
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. — Tamora Pierce
It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated. — John Flansburgh
Don't Be Shallow Quotes
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need. — Lady Gaga
I want to act in America's interest and stop making shallow, sweeping claims about countries we don't fully understand and hope everything will be fine in the end. I saw that happen and it didn't work. — Tucker Carlson
Why would you expect people who don't know any history to be able to report on history? Why would you expect people who are shallow and report only today's exciting story, to be followed by tomorrow's exciting story, to have any sense of depth or any sense of background? — Sean Hannity
Glasses are for the brave. I do not need to pretend that I am sighted. People who need glasses and don't wear them are slightly less treacherous than people who don't need them and do-like every shallow Hollywood star who wants to be taken seriously. — Greg Proops
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. — Steve Lillywhite
I'm not that shallow, asshole. I don't need money. It's way more important for them to be good-looking. — Chelsea Handler
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. — Rachel Cohn
I'm Not Shallow Quotes
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow. — Jewel
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. — Sharon Gless
I'm not crazy impressed with New York. I mean, I don't buy into that whole thing: Everyone in New York is all sophisticated, and they're into art and sophisticated things, and everyone in L.A. is just shallow entertainment people. I think people are just shallow across the board. — Aaron McGruder
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. — George Wendt
I'm not sure why we want each other," she grumbled. "Nor am I, but the fact remains that we do want each other." "Maybe I'm just shallow. You're quite pretty." "For now, that will do." Infuriating man. Couldn't take an insult the way she intended. -Annabelle and Zacharel — Gena Showalter
I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves. — Suzanne Collins
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. — Oscar Wilde
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly. — Gary Larson
Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all — Pope John Paul II
Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort. — Mark Twight
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. — Felix Mendelssohn
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. — Ferdinand De Saussure
Ultimately, what defines the ‘cult of optimism’ and the culture of positive thinking – even in its most mystically tinged, New Age forms – is that it abhors a mystery. It seeks to make things certain, to make happiness permanent and final. And yet this kind of happiness – even if you do manage to achieve it – is shallow and unsatisfying. The greatest benefit of negative capability – the true power of negative thinking – is that it lets the mystery back in. — Oliver Burkeman
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. — Robert M. Pirsig
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials. — Neil Postman
Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There can be no depth in a relationship where there is a compulsive need to please the other every time, all the time. Such relationships will only be too superficial and shallow. You don't derive fulfilment out of these relationships. The depth of a relationship is revealed by the freedom and openness that's possible in communication in that relationship. Open communication helps you to either clarify or get clarified. — Mahatria Ra
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. — Rodney A. Smolla
Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins? — Pete Townshend
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in. — Mel Torme
It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible. — Andrew Breitbart
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences. — Rafael Sabatini
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with vigour and ethical meaning. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain. — Thomas Sowell
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. — Jim Rohn
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