Shallow Quotes

Shallow Quote of the day

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

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

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.

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

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Stop shallow water from running, it will rage; tread on a worm and it will turn.

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

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow.

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

Shallow men believe in luck.

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.

Keynesians think that you can take water from the deep end of the swimming, pump it into the shallow end of the swimming pool and somehow the water level of the swimming pool will rise.

When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

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!

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.

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.

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.

As a healer, the first thing to tell every patient is to breathe deeply. Shallow breathing means no endurance, no patience.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

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

For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage.

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.

In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!

Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most beautiful woman in the world.

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

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.