Shallow Quotes

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

Some days, I'm as shallow as a baking pan, but I still stretch miles in all directions.

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

Don't leave my ocean for shallow waters then ask me about the moon.

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character.

I would say our social relationships are relatively shallow. We are actually afraid to be intimate, with people - many people even with their wives and husbands.

Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem.

Excuse me, there's no pretense here. I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

Yesterdays depth is feeling very shallow, I wanna go deeper, deeper still.

The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.

It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

Men are shallow - we don't remember things like women do. Or we don't bring it up and blurt it out at inappropriate moments. When bridges are trying to be built, we don't detonate them.

It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.

The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.

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

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace.

These parents, they think I'm a role model for their kids, that their kids look at me as some sort of idol. But it's the parents' job to make sure their kids don't turn out that shallow.

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

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

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.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.

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

If the weeds are pulled out of the garden too soon, the too shallow roots of the plants developing around it get pulled up with the weed also. Time is what is needed before criticism can be useful.

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion.

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are more shallow.

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

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

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.

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