Shallow Quotes - Page 18

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

  Stephen Schwartz

  Wicked, Hundred, Percent

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Home, Acting, Actors

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• For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Sleep, Depth, Needs

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

  Joni Mitchell

  Stupid, Decided

  "It's a Joni Mitchell concert, sans Joni". Interview with Matt Diehl, articles.latimes.com. April 22, 2010.

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• It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dirty, Naughty, Water

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.107, Penguin

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• We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Character, Roots, Childhood

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• 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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• The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

  Walt Whitman

  Wise, Freedom, Men

  "Democratic Vistas And Other Papers".

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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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• Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Existentialism, Mystical

  "The Gay Science". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Sec. 126, 1882.

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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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• All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Moving, Animal, Compassion

  "9 Reasons A Cat Should Be President" by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2012.

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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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• 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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• It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Years, People

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.85, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Thinking, Errors

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.72, BookCaps Study Guides

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• One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless.

  Hermann Hesse

  School, Two, Mind

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