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Sometimes ideas hold us down; they become heavy anchors that hold the bark of identity fixated in shallow, dead water. — John O'Donohue

I so want his wardrobe,' Eve sighed. 'Is that shallow, or just strange?'
'Don't sell yourself short. It's both.' Shane said. — Rachel Caine

The lips know only shallow tunes — Calvin Miller

He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative. — G.K. Chesterton

Some people we glimpse as chasms, briefly but deeply, even to the death of us. Others are shallow places you never seem to get across. — Denis Johnson

My love grows wide and shallow in an effort to spread my losses. — Mason Cooley

Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream. — Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right. — Jennifer Donnelly

She is shallow and easy and meaningless. I am deep and complicated and appreciative of the simple experience of joy. — Heather Hildenbrand

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. — John Milton

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. — J.K. Rowling

Her fear was strong, but her need for the truth was stronger. — Jennifer Donnelly

Deep down, he's shallow. — Peter De Vries

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

The shallow end of hope is usually the deep end of grace. — Bob Goff

Either you choose to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out into the ocean. — Christopher Reeve

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings. — John Boyle O'Reilly

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. — Thomas Carlyle

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

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals. — Michael Bassey

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

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder — Leon Kass

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good. — Michael Bassey Johnson

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

On the other hand, emotion without truth produces empty frenzy and cultivates shallow people who refuse the discipline of rigorous thought. — John Piper

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living. — Anais Nin

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

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

Life is a series of shallow breaths. And in any breath, everything can change. — Kate Kae Myers

We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor. — Courtney Summers

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

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

If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with - and vice versa - the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed. — Nenia Campbell

Without music the heart beats a silent lonely rhythm. Without song the soul is but an empty shallow well. — Elizabeth Good

If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don't really probe their motivations. Call me shallow. — Hugh Hefner

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

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

A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto. — Yotam Ottolenghi

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man. — Ueda Akinari

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest. — William John Locke

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

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

Only the shallow know themselvess — Oscar Wilde

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound. — Carol Bly

He who is shallow cannot be expected to say anything deep. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected. — Matthew Henry

the only thing fear yields is one dormant gift in a shallow grave. — Jen Hatmaker

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

It's all very well setting up your own brand of face cream or exercise wear - but Christ, it's so shallow. — Jasmine Guinness

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often. — Kelly Reilly

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion; great understanding goes with great compassion. — Nhat Hanh

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

Deep down I'm a very shallow person. — Charles Haughey

Don't be a shallow person. Do everything with zealous devotion, as you would do it for Christ — Sunday Adelaja

Agatha: "If you say anything smug or stuck-up or shallow, I'll have Reaper follow you home."
Sophie: "But then I can't talk! — Soman Chainani

Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author. — George Eliot

He's grinning now. Also I think you're really pretty and I'm incredibly shallow. — Jandy Nelson

Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady. — Jennifer Donnelly

His jest shall savour but a shallow wit, when thousands more weep than did laugh it. — William Shakespeare

Not to understand is profound; to understand is shallow. Not to understand is to be on the inside; to understand is to be on the outside. — Zhuangzi

It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated. — John Flansburgh

In the prism of faith, every crisis looks shallow. — Nilesh Rathod

agapi mou, zoi mou." I took a shallow breath. "What does that mean?" "It means, 'my love, my life'." I — Jennifer L. Armentrout

We are so miserably shallow Josh, how do we stand ourselves? — Nora Roberts

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

How predictable; As if appearance is all that matters for people who can't see with anything other than their eyes. — Donna Lynn Hope

A thoroughly honest man is a rare jewel in the shallow stream of meaningless pebbles. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people. — Steven Magee

It can be tiring knowing so many people with hidden depths," Joe said. "Some days, shallow is good. — Charlaine Harris

I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me. — Rita Rudner

It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Is this where you reveal you're secretly a serial killer and you're taking me to where you're going to bury my body in a shallow grave? — Lolita Lane

Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion. — Brian D. McLaren

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. — Killer Mike

Enjoy the world while you can I say. A shallow enough philosophy by which to live, but shallow is what I've got. Besides deep is apt to drown you. — Mark Lawrence

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

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. — Sharon Gless

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him. — Giacomo Casanova

Maybe people who have had too much of it. Or people who have had too little. Or people who are too shallow to appreciate its hard edges. — Tarryn Fisher

The world is unbearably ugly when beauty is judged purely by what is seen on the outside. — Sarah Brownlee

Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world. — Richard J. Foster

The land is all too shallow
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King passed by — Susanna Clarke

My prep team. My foolish, shallow, affectionate pets, with their obsessions with feathers and parties, nearly break my heart with their good-bye. It's — Suzanne Collins

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

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

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. — Henry David Thoreau

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short. — Molly Ivins

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

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

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. — Karl Shapiro

Creativity is different than cleverness. Clever things are often fun, but usually shallow and short lived. Creativity is deeper. — Ted Keller

I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I thought it was in the Eighties. — Rowan Atkinson

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. — Oscar Wilde

Murky thoughts, like murky waters, can serve two purposes only: to hide what lies beneath, which is our ignorance, or to make the shallow seem deep — Giulio Tononi

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties. — Barbara Walters

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