Shallow Quotes

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?

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

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

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

You can’t be good to others if you’re not strict with yourself. The more shallow you are with yourself, the harsher you are with others. The more profound you are with yourself, the more generous you are with others

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

It is because we have such shallow views of God's love that we have such defective views of God's dealings. We blindly interpret the symbols of His providence, because we so imperfectly read the engravings of His heart.

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

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

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

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

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.

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!

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

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

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.

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

There is nothing more dangerous than a shallow thinking compassionate person

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

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

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

I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.

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

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

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

Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking.

One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to put the work in!!

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

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

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I'm shallow.

I have a really shallow idea about what Australia is.

I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.

Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.

I'm a deep thinker when it comes to shallow no brainers.

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy

Deep down I'm a very shallow person.

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.

I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.

It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.

Most contemporary fiction sucks. It's intellectually dishonest, often morally dishonest. It's cheap and easy. It pretends to be deep but is really quite shallow.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.