Shallow Quotes - Page 7

• …their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

  John Muir

  People, Curiosity, Comfort

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.39, Great West Books

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• The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

  John Shelby Spong

  Swimming, Church, Noise

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• Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem [Abdul Jabbar ], these individuals supported us, but yet still, when you sit back and say the coverage that was done relative to their support was very shallow.

  John Carlos

  Support, Done, Bills

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Russian forests crash down under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the habitations of animals and birds are laid waste, rivers grow shallow and dry up, marvelous landscapes are disappearing forever.... Man is endowed with creativity in order to multiply that which has been given him; he has not created, but destroyed. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife has become extinct, the climate is ruined, and the earth is becoming ever poorer and uglier.

  Anton Chekhov

  Creativity, Men, Animal

  "Uncle Vanya". Act I. Play by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• Praise a fool, and slay him; for the canvas of his vanity is spread; His bark is shallow in the water, and a sudden gust shall sink it: Praise a wise man, and speed him on his way; for he carrieth the ballast of humility, And is glad when his course is cheered by the sympathy of brethren ashore.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Wise, Humility, Men

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author”, p.90

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• The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.

  Janet Burroway

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Janet Burroway (1982). “Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft”, Little Brown and Company

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• The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

  Raquel Cepeda

  Travel, Wall, Ocean

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Opportunity, Space, Silence

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• A short attention span makes all of your perceptions and relationships shallow and unsatisfying.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Perception, Attention, Short Attention Spans

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.174, Penguin

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• The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Want, Satisfaction

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.41, Penguin

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• The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.

  Killer Mike

  Motivation, Rap, Hip Hop

  Interview with Eric Ducker, believermag.com. July 2014.

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• And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself. For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.

  Alexandra Potter

  Coffee, Home, Past

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• In France, for instance, I'm told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the past.

  Mitt Romney

  Party, Moving, Past

  "Romney Reaches to the Christian Right" by Perry Bacon, Jr., www.washingtonpost.com. May 6, 2007.

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• In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Inspiration, Men, Whales

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Paramahansa Yogananda, 1946.

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• In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.

  Charles Lyell

  Feet, Lakes, Water

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

  Loren Eiseley

  Writing, Heart, Past

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• With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Eye, Bugs, Enough

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• In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth.

  Bridget Riley

  Opening Up, Space, Way

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.

  Nikki Sixx

  Dream, Men, Vision

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• Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Sports, Religious, Hate

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• Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

  Franny Billingsley

  Mind, Depth, Admitting

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.92, Penguin

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• I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Love You, Past

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• We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love them in a way.

  Hilary Liftin

  Children, Caring, Way

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Of course, I had my heart broken as a teen. I was desperately in love with myself. Then I found out that I was completely shallow. I haven't spoken to myself since.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Heart, Broken, Found

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• Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

  W. Sangster

  Helping Others, Soul, Streams

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