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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.
The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - is that wherever I am, that's sort of home.
The men who really get repelled by what you're wearing are a little shallow, and you probably don't want to date them anyway.
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.
The mass of men lead lives of shallow happiness; the superior man exults in his gloom.
The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.
Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.
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.
It's all very well setting up your own brand of face cream or exercise wear - but Christ, it's so shallow.
It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.
There aren't enough good journalists. There are too many who really weren't groomed to be reporters and, as a result, some of the reporting is shallow.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
If you become famous but haven't actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you're spectacularly shallow.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.
In lower levels things are dark, gray, experiences are shallow. You become alienated from those around you.
Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow.
It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
I've done so many movies that are bad, with material that's so shallow, that you instantly scratch the surface, and there's nothing underneath.
A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.
People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.
I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.
Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.
I'm just shallow and self-interested, and don't get out much because I'm afraid of real commitments.
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.
It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.
I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.
Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.
I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.
Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.
He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.
Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.
The streams of religion run deep or shallow, according as the banks of the Sabbath are kept up or neglected.
Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.
It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.
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
As a healer, the first thing to tell every patient is to breathe deeply. Shallow breathing means no endurance, no patience.
His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.
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.
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!
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.
Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.
The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.
A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.
I don't read enough books, so I guess I'm pretty shallow. I'm a lot into the physical. With me, first attraction is never intellectual.
