Shallow Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Trying, Ems, Crabs

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• 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.

  Connie Willis

  Girl, Ugly, Helping

  Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.54, Spectra

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• The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing. Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color. Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths. Dont blink. Don't blink... Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bounced off the ground into another jump, and scrambled up the nearest tree. In the clearing, Gaston bent over, guffawing like an idiot. 'It's not funny!

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Dark, Color

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• 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.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Female, Chance

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• Yesterday he told me he thought I would have to pretend to be weak, but he was wrong. I am weak already. I brace myself against the wall and press my forehead to my hands. It’s difficult to take deep breaths, so I take short, shallow ones. I can’t let this happen. They attacked me to make me feel weak. I can pretend they succeeded to protect myself, but I can’t let it become true.

  Veronica Roth

  Wall, Hands, Yesterday

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• I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and the outlying regions of the spirit. The depths hold no interest for me; I leave them to others, for they are shallow, commonplace. What is there, then, at the outer most edge? Nothing, perhaps, save a few ribbons, dangling down into the void.

  Yukio Mishima

  Depth, Body, Ribbons

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• 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

  Men, Want, Way

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Judging, People, Wonder

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions

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• 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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Strong, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.432

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• As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.

  Arthur Koestler

  Philosophy, Science, Thinking

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality, Law, Yesterday

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.168, Macmillan

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

  Richard Dawkins

  Judging, Religion, Atheism

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

  Nhat Hanh

  Compassion, Understanding, Poverty

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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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• 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

  Swimming, Thinking, Water

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• 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.

  Joan Rivers

  Children, Hate, Thinking

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• In the middle of a conversation, she'll frequently say something like, "Young people are heartless, they don't have any respect anymore." I nod agreement in hopes that she'll stop right there, but secretly I'm convinced that the heart is the same as it's always been; there's simply less hypocrisy, that's all. Young people aren't naturally selfish, any more than old folks are naturally wise. Your age doesn't have anything to do with whether you're sensitive or shallow; it's a question of the path your life takes.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Wise, Selfish, Heart

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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

  Depth, Culture, Superficial

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.106, New World Library

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• 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.

  Randy Shilts

  Character, Vanity, Cells

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• The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

  Bob Goff

  Grace, Ends

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Feb 20, 2013

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• One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

  William Matthews

  Law, Energy, Attention

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• 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

  Learning, Bugs, Problem

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

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Understanding, Lazy

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

  Desmond Green

  Breathing, Roots, Evil

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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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