quotes about Shallow
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Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.
-- Alphonse KarrSource : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 111), 1886.
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
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We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.
-- Anne Rice -
The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.
-- Bob Goff -
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The lips know only shallow tunes
-- Calvin MillerSource : Calvin Miller (1990). “A Symphony in Sand”, W Publishing Group
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O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.
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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.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.
-- Edie Brickell -
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The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!
-- Elizabeth Foreman Lewis -
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.
-- Ewan McGregor -
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 -
Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.
-- Gillian FlynnSource : Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.131, Broadway Books
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It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.
-- Graham Norton -
Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
-- Guru Nanak -
All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
-- Jim Morrison -
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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Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I'm shallow.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
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.
-- Kelly ReillySource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.
-- Kim EdwardsSource : Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.156, Penguin
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Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder
-- Leon KassSource : Leon Kass, James Q. Wilson (1998). “The Ethics of Human Cloning”, p.19, American Enterprise Institute
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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
-- Linus Torvalds -
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
-- Lisa Kleypas -
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.
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But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
-- Mel Torme -
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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 -
Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.
-- Nick CohenSource : Nick Cohen (2000). “Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous”, p.126, Verso
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It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.
-- Octavius Winslow -
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?
-- Pete Townshend -
But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.
-- Rainbow Rowell -
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
-- Rex Stout -
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Some days, I'm as shallow as a baking pan, but I still stretch miles in all directions.
-- Rives -
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
-- Robert BorkSource : Robert H. Bork (2008). “A time to speak: selected writings and arguments”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women,
-- Sharon Gless -
Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.
-- Stephen Schwartz -
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No, you're wrong. I'm a hundred percent callow and deeply shallow.
-- Stephen Schwartz -
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 -
One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.
-- William Matthews -
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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.
-- Eddie JemisonSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking.
-- Elsie Lincoln BenedictSource : Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1920). “Practical Psychology”
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You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.
-- Ian Kelsey -
It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.
-- L.A. PaulSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.
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Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.
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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 -
I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.
-- Moshe KasherSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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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.
-- Dale PeckSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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Are men shallow? Should we be looking for inner beauty? Ha, ha.
-- Tom LeykisSource : "Not too old to sue Tom Leykis" by Robert W. Welkos, articles.latimes.com. July 6, 2005.
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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.
-- Will McDonough -