No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Kid's culture is often dismissed as superficial, like high fibre McDonald's, but it's so much more important than that. — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial. — Heather Mills Copy Share Image
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
“Jas. I don’t normally like Katie Steadman that much. She’s OK but I get the impression she thinks I am a bit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“When we generalize and judge people quickly without taking ample time, we've chosen a shortcut. It's superficial of us, and a lack… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
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… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Latin America can no longer tolerate being a haven for United States liberals who cannot make their point at home, an outlet… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
In present-day America, expressing reverence for those who serve in uniform is something akin to a religious obligation. Everyone professes to cherish… — Andrew Bacevich Copy Share Image
When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can… — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will… — Bas van Fraassen Copy Share Image
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living,… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Unrestrained automobility, hedonism, individualism, and conspicuous consumption cannot be sustained because they take more than they give back. A spiritually impoverished world… — David W. Orr Copy Share Image
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“My work has often been described as “chick lit” and for the most part the term doesn’t bother me. I think it… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
