Superficial Quotes - Page 9

• I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Light, Evil

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.263

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• Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Men, Poison, Benefits

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

  Abdul Kalam

  Future, Lines, Unknown Future

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• I am deeply superficial.

  Ava Gardner

  Ego

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• We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values - looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous... It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Dream, Successful, Men

  "Madonna's Twisted Values" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. April 24, 2003.

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• The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation - if not the representation - of the plastic values of reality.

  Hans Hofmann

  Artist, Reality, May

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• As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

  Guy Debord

  Stars, Order, People

  Guy Debord, Ken Knabb (2003). “Complete cinematic works: scripts, stills, documents”, A K Pr Distribution

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• Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Opportunity, Bones

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Salem Falls”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Nice, Compliments You, People

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• Jobs that require a suit upset me. They displease me much, as our world is rife with such superficial conformity.

  Nick Offerman

  Jobs, Our World, Upset

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.133, Penguin

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• The amount of guilt you deal with as a parent is pretty profound. It's a constant balancing act. I'm an ambitious person, but when I became a father, ambition had a different hold on me. Providing for my kids was important, but the superficial ambition drifted away.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Father, Ambition, Kids

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two.

  Lauren Oliver

  Past, Two, People

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.265, Hachette UK

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• Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness, awareness. Don't live life according to the mind. Mind has rules and regulations, mind has rituals. Live life from the standpoint of no-mind so that you can bloom into unpredictable flowers.

  Rajneesh

  Live Life, Flower, Law

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• Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

  Tennessee Williams

  Sorrow, Show Me, Shows

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• There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial

  Donna Tartt

  Meaningful

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.480, Vintage

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• I've always been infuriated by Bertie, I have to say. I never appreciated his style of politics. I thought it was very superficial, running around the country opening crisp packets, as they say, never really engaging with the substance of what was being debated and it clearly had a hugely negative impact on this country.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Running, Country, Gay

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• If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding.

  Howard Gardner

  Educational, Teaching, Knowing

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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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• Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

  Rupert Everett

  Cutting, Kissing, Giving

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• Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

  P. D. James

  May, Moments, Charm

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.26, Vintage

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• If women are differentiated only by superficial physical attributes, men appear more individual and irreplaceable than they really are.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Men, Individual, Attributes

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• It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing makes me happy. The fact that people, in pursuit of a superficial look of health, give themselves a fatal disease. I love it when 'reasoning' human beings think they have figured out how to beat something and it comes right back and kicks them in the nuts. God bless the law of unintended consequences. And the irony is impressive: Healthy people, trying to look healthier, make themselves sick. Good!

  George Carlin

  Cancer, Thinking, Media

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

  Haruki Murakami

  Kindness, Believe, Caring

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Children, Believe, Men

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.92, Random House

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