Shallow Quotes - Page 13

• Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.

  Anne Bronte

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.98, Diversion Books

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• Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

  Walter Raleigh

  Music, Rain, Passion

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.394

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• One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature.

  John C. Wright

  Atheist, Regret, Real

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its own taste. A man is poorer if he has not known sadness; he is impoverished, very much impoverished. His laughter will be shallow, his laughter will not have depth, because depth comes only through sadness. A man who knows sadness, if he laughs, his laughter will have depth. His laughter will have something of his sadness too, his laughter will be more colorful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Laughter, Sadness

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• No one who is angry or shallow can repeat what they've said. The moment you ask a person to repeat, you have won the battle. You have put them on guard. So don't reply angrily and don't take any offense, just say politely, "Yes, I understand, but could you please repeat it?" With that, you have won.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Communication, Battle, Moments

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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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• In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.

  Cesar Chavez

  Commitment, Legacy, World

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• Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

  William Shakespeare

  Weed, Spring, Garden

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.232, Cengage Learning EMEA

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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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• Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder

  Leon Kass

  Soul, Forgotten

  Leon Kass, James Q. Wilson (1998). “The Ethics of Human Cloning”, p.19, American Enterprise Institute

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• 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

  Insulting, Answers, Dignity

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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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• Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really.

  Mary Balogh

  Flower, Heart, Rose

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Secret Affair”, p.142, Delacorte Press

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• Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Life, Skills, Symphony

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

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• She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

  Aleister Crowley

  Opportunity, Men, Fire

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• I have a really shallow idea about what Australia is.

  Michael Bierut

  Ideas, Australia

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• In all seriousness, the first book [The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year] was such a love letter to Wacha, that I think people will be interested and surprised to see that I had some challenges with him in year two.

  Andy Cohen

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I was in such a creative groove after turning in my last book (The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year) that I decided to keep writing in the hope that I'd one day do a sequel.

  Andy Cohen

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Watch What Happens...When Anderson Cooper interviews Andy Cohen". Interview With Anderson Cooper, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 25, 2016.

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• There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Calling, Said

  Mark Twain (2014). “Following the Equator”, p.72, Trajectory Inc

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• His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, Jest, Wit

  "King Henry V".

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• I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Fear, Mermaid

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