Shallow Quotes - Page 18

• Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

  Pat Paulsen

  Happens, Deep Down

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

  Rita Rudner

  Simple, Persons, Simple Person

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• 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.

  Howard Schultz

  Mother, Company You Keep, Age

  "Starbucks boss: we're not all froth". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2009.

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• Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

  Richard Baxter

  Motivational, Brain, Study

  Richard Baxter (2014). “The Reformed Pastor”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Hope, Hate, Rap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

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

  Stephen Schwartz

  Wicked, Hundred, Percent

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• Nerrissa? You believe her? Well, you at least have to credit her with a certain instability! Remember when she told you that I was going to take over the Fount with and army of Lobsters?" said Ripred. You did try to take over the Fount with an army of Lobsters." said Vikus. Yes, yes, but it was years before she was born. My point is, she flip-flops in and out of time like a fish in shallow waters." answered Ripred.

  Suzanne Collins

  Believe, Army, Years

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• Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Want, Matter

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.224, Beacon Press

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• Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift and shallow as a brook. Be as cool and quick to go As a drop of April snow; Be as delicate and gay As a cherry flower in May. Lady, lady, never speak Of the tears that burn your cheek- She will never win him, whose Words had shown she feared to lose. Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

  Dorothy Parker

  Wise, Flower, Heart

  Dorothy Parker, “The Lady's Reward”

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• On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to put your sunglasses or spare change, it is the obvious place, and it works extremely well, I must say, so long as the car is not actually moving. However, as soon as you put the car in motion ... everything slides off ... It can hold nothing that has not been nailed to it. So I ask you: what then is it for?

  Bill Bryson

  Moving, Book, Long

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• Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Deep Water, Water, Swim

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• There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well, all the first effort is wasted and there is no proof you won’t hit rock again. (52)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Rocks, Effort, Encounters

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Judging, World

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.27, Diversion Books

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• 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.

  Deb Caletti

  Depth, World, Way

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• My Master... Say all you wish of me. It does not matter to me:Shallow.. Stupid.. Crazy.. Simple minded. It does not concern me anymore. For whoever writes about her concerns. in the logic of Men is called a stupid woman. and didn't I tell you in the beginning that I am a stupid woman?

  Nizar Qabbani

  Crazy, Stupid, Writing

  Nizar Qabbani, “A Letter From A Stupid Woman”

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• 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!

  Oscar Wilde

  Lost, Found, One Thing

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Steve Martin

  Mother, Dream, Glasses

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• 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.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Fashion, Cancer, Clothes

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

  John Quincy Adams

  Presidential, Political, Enmity

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

  Rex Stout

  Ideas, Depth, Scope

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

  Gillian Flynn

  Mean, Shallow Person, Well Being

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.131, Broadway Books

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• 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.

  Neil Cavuto

  Leader, Age, Television

  "Why Can't Ugly People Have Charisma?". townhall.com, July 10, 2004.

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• 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.

  Emil Nolde

  Artist, Empathy, Kind

  Emil Nolde, Werner Haftmann (1959). “Emil Nolde”

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• The fact is that, we are not producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity, that bears little resemblance to that of the New Testament. The average so-called Bible Christian of our times is but a shallow display of true sainthood. Yet, we put millions of dollars behind ‘movements’ to perpetuate this lower form of religion and attack the man who dares to challenge the wisdom of it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Men, Average

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

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Winning, Nba

  Mike Krzyzewski, Donald T. Phillips (2010). “Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life”, p.208, Hachette UK

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