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“Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.”

Way Soul Lying Horrible Journalism Suspicion Shallow Grownups Recess Journalistic

Author:Andrew Ferguson

“Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.”

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office

“The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found.”

Source: The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?

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

Want Shallow Hardwork And Determination

Author:Kevin Hart

“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.”

Water Attention Internals Shallow Shallow Water

Book:The Power of Awareness

Source: The Power of Awareness

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

Stills Feelings Depth Deeper Yesterday Shallow

Author:Misty Edwards

“I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”

Needs New York Shallow

Author:Lady Gaga

“Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.”

Late Capitalism Consequence Accidents Shallow Marxist Uniformity

Book:Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous

Source: Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous

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

Play Nice Color Shallow Wretched Acquisition Mergers True Colors Mergers And Acquisitions

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.”

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

“Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south.”

World Years Lasts Beautiful Poetry Fall Water Forget Vision Watches Flower Years Ago Rivers Seasons South Ancient Fishes Careful Tea Thirty Lakes Be Careful Shallow Torn Drank Your Beautiful

Author:Mao Zedong

“At this time I choseas friends two little girls of my own age; but how shallow are the hearts of creatures! Oneof them had to stay at home for some months; while she was away I thought about her veryoften, and on her return I showed how pleased I was. However, all I got was a glance of indifference-my friendship was not appreciated. I felt this very keenly, and I no longer soughtan affection which had proved so inconstant. Nevertheless I still love my little school friend,and continue to pray for her, for God has given me a faithful heart, and when once I love,I love for ever.”

“There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not exercise human control. They would rate a generous deed as no more praiseworthy than a wink, a crime as no more voluntary than a sneeze. . . Such a philosophy undercuts all human dignity. . . All of us have the power of choice in action at every moment of our lives.”

Humans Philosophy Moments Action Choices Teach Our Lives Crime Exercise Dignity Rate Deeds Tendencies Generous Thinker Shallow Human Dignity Reflexes Power Of Choice Praiseworthy

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.”

World Long Done Wisdom Song This World Glory Credit Reputation Cups Idols Shallow

Book:The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Source: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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

Values Virtue Roots Shallow Short Time

Book:Correspondence, Conferences, Documents

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents

“Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering? No, it wouldn't. They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things. Suffering drives you deeper. The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form. A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.”

Ifs Humans Form Purpose Suffering Human Beings Wonderful Ego Deeper Evolve Paradox Spares Shallow Identification Erode

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.”

Source: Miracles: A Preliminary Study

“Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It's catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.”

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

Sound Members Fascinating Spells Shallow

Author:Graham Norton

“In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.”

Author:Ueda Akinari

“Whether it's pool or Ping Pong, I can't stand to have my kids beat me. Especially Ping Pong! And when they beat me, they just needle the devil out of me. That's fine. I'd rather have that than let them win a shallow victory.”

I Can Kids Winning Fine Victory Beats Devil Pool Shallow Needles Ping Ping Pong

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“Though nihilism has been relentlessly criticized for overemphasizing the dark side of human experience, it might be equally true that this overemphasis represents a needed counterbalance to shallow optimism and arrogant confidence in human power. Nihilism reminds us that we are not gods, and that despite all of the accomplishments and wonders of civilization, humans cannot alter the fact that they possess only a finite amount of mastery and control over their own destinies.”

“A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.”

Kind Quality Amount Caring Popularity Shallow

Author:Rachel Hamilton

“Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.”

People Running School Politics Effort Century Civilization Ill Educated Dedicated Shallow Priceless Moron Vases

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.”

Humans Suffering Human Beings Vision Struggle Intellectual Revelations Shallow

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)

“There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.”

Feelings Destiny Our Lives Far Away Shallow Posing

Book:God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

Source: God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

“Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.”

Understanding Calling Shallow Dwarfs Dwarves

Book:Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

Source: Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

“It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.”

Conversation Despite Spokes Rhetoric Shallow Occasional Public Speaking Eloquence Gleam Macarthur

Author:William Manchester

“Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.”

Men Self Dangerous Insane Self Knowledge Shallow Dangerous Things

Book:the Bourgeois Poet

Source: the Bourgeois Poet

“The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.”

Thinking Important Country Problem Solutions Important Things Shallow

Author:Robert D. Kaplan

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

Ifs Sadness Regret Rivers Confession Cried Shallow

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.”

Kind Term Silly Movie Shallow Chicks Chick Flick

Author:Carla Gugino

“There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashion? Yes, it can be. But does fashion transform a woman who might feel like nothing and unimportant to glamorous and gorgeous? Yes, it does. Does it employ a huge sector of America? Yes, it does.”

Way Feels Looks Doe Different Might America Fashion Huge Industry Bunch Different Ways Shallow Gorgeous Glamorous Unimportant Fashion Industry

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.”

Years Jobs Gains Shallow

Author:Gordon Getty

“The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so”

World Humans Stills Ends Science Causes Understanding Limits Presses Philosopher Vain Shallow Subordinates Enquiry

Book:The Great Instauration

Source: The Great Instauration

“I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Persons Real Turns Girl Wish Bigger Silly Teeth Shallow Creepy Turn Off Bigger Person

Author:Peter Farrelly

“I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.”