Shallow Quotes - Page 11

• Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Loss, Night, Long

  "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 2), 1968.

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• Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking.

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict

  Thinking, Deep Breathing, Breathing

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1920). “Practical Psychology”

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• My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Effort, Losing

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• Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

  Mason Cooley

  Commitment, Language, Made

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Simple, Light, Mind

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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• The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Strong, Passion, Men

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• The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Character, People

  "Old Path White Clouds". Book by Thich Nhat Hanh, 1987.

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• If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

  Allison Mackie

  Weed, Garden, Roots

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• Missionaries, whether of philosophy or religion, rarely make rapid way, unless their preachings fall in with the prepossessions ofthe multitude of shallow thinkers, or can be made to serve as a stalking-horse for the promotion of the practical aims of the still larger multitude, who do not profess to think much, but are quite certain they want a great deal.

  Thomas Huxley

  Horse, Philosophy, Fall

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• 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.

  Marianne Moore

  Fall, Fighting, Animal

  Marianne Moore (1956). “Like a bulwark”, Viking Press, 1957

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• Most Hollywood men are too vain and shallow for me.

  Alley Mills

  Men, Hollywood, Vain

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Dark, Levels

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

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  America, Depth, Hegemony

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2016). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.35, Basic Books

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• Adult actors are really childish, and thats nice to be around when youre a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.

  Jack Davenport

  Nice, Kids, Adults

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Mason Cooley

  Mind, Cracks, Littles

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• Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

  John Milton

  Children, Reading, Book

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.78, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.

  John Battelle

  Years, Year End, Google

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• The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be counteracted by the utmost efforts of human power or wisdom, resignation, and as far as the strength of our reason and religion can carry us, a cheerful acquiescence to the Divine Will, is what we are to aim.

  George Washington

  Eye, Justice, Effort

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1944). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress”

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stupid, Way, Opinion

  Associated Press luncheon in New York City, New York, April 24, 1950.

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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

  Song, Fairness, Mediums

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• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

  H. L. Mencken

  Women, Lying, Intuition

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

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• 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.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Different, Body, Kind

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.291, Faber & Faber

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• She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Taken, Loss

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.114, Canongate Books

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

  Anne Rice

  Atheist, Cocky, Years

  Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• 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

  Sydney Smith

  Loyalty, People, Imagination

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