Shallow Quotes
400 quotes by 331 authors
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There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use…
— Swami Satchidananda
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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…
— Oscar Wilde
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Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its…
— Deb Caletti
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My Master... Say all you wish of me. It does not matter to me:Shallow.. Stupid.. Crazy.. Simple minded. It does not concern me anymore. For…
— Nizar Qabbani
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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…
— Oscar Wilde
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The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl swirl that sometimes…
— Steve Martin
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The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.
— John Shelby Spong
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…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…
— John Muir
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It is interesting that we call something good a “dream,†but being called a “dreamer†is somewhat of a putdown. Without dreamers, no dream would…
— Vera Nazarian
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The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. ‘Behold, just now the world became perfect!’—thus thinks every woman when…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved…
— Oscar Wilde
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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…
— Alexandra Potter
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
— Oscar Wilde
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Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago,…
— Annie Dillard
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Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably…
— Mary Balogh
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The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
— Anne Rice
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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…
— Sydney Smith
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Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the…
— David Lynch
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For several centuries, the Celtic church of Ireland was spared the Greek dualism of matter and spirit. They regarded the world with the clear vision…
— Brennan Manning
Who Wrote These Shallow Quotes
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