People Are Shallow Quotes

#1. We like to think that all people have hidden depths, but the fact is that a lot of people are shallow.
The vast majority don't have an opinion until they tune in to AM radio or read the papers. Then they become social critics.

Jessica Zafra

#2. There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.
And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.

Nina George

#3. Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#4. I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes.

Michael Keaton

#5. 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.

Winona Ryder

#6. As Robert Bly laments in Iron John, Some women want a passive man if they want a man at all; the church wants a tamed man - they are called priests; the university wants a domesticated man - they are called tenure-track people; the corporation wants a ... sanitized, hairless, shallow man.

John Eldredge

#7. The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

Nhat Hanh

#8. 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.

Thomas Sowell

#9. 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

#10. Life is far kinder to shallow people.

Lisa Kleypas

#11. I think the overriding message would be that love is serious business. True, down-to-the-crap love is not for the shallow or faint of heart. People are messy. Marriage is messy. You have to bring your best self to the game despite your limitations.

Ka Hancock

#12. Glasses are for the brave. I do not need to pretend that I am sighted. People who need glasses and don't wear them are slightly less treacherous than people who don't need them and do-like every shallow Hollywood star who wants to be taken seriously.

Greg Proops

#13. People think I'm as shallow and superficial as I look, and it's a surprise when they find out, sure enough, I am.

Dolly Parton

#14. More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise of America is embedded deep in our DNA, calling us to a much less shallow search for happiness and meaning.

Arianna Huffington

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

Oscar Wilde

#16. It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them." "Dorian, this is

Oscar Wilde

#17. 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 custom, or their lack of imagination

Sydney Smith

#18. Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

Dennis Lehane

#19. People are like water in a pond where you cannot see the bottom. You think you know where it is shallow and where it is deep but it's only when you have to dive in head first that you find out where it is truly deep.

J.L. Witterick

#20. Any nation that teaches and makes it's people look for miracles is making it's people shallow.

Sunday Adelaja

#21. Of course flattery seldom works with discerning people. It is shallow, selfish and insincere. It ought to fail and it usually does. True, some people are so hungry, so thirsty, for appreciation that they will swallow anything, just as a starving man will eat grass and fishworms.

Dale Carnegie

#22. In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.

Brian Froud

#23. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. OSCAR WILDE, in a letter

Susan Sontag

#24. You meet these people who are confident all the time. They annoy me. And I wonder if it's because I'm envious or if it's because they're shallow.

Guy Pearce

#25. ...people shouldn't die for things they believe. There needs to be a better reason. Belief is so shallow.

Ray Palla

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

Charlaine Harris

#27. The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together.

Marianne Williamson

#28. Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it that you can patiently wait for him to make your life better, but you won't consider he is patiently waiting for you to be better?

Shannon L. Alder

#29. Some people think Hollywood is shallow. I find that it's home.

Chelsea Handler

#30. People care much more for how things look than how things are.

Donna Lynn Hope

#31. I'm terribly shallow. I don't miss things once I have stopped doing them, and I don't miss people when I stop seeing them.

Terry Wogan

#32. People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.

Erica O'Rourke

#33. Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.

Robyn

#34. Newt had said I loved Ivy more than the church. I wasn't going to deny it, but there were all kinds of love, and how shallow would I be if my anchor to reality was a hunk of real estate? It was the people who were there that made it mean something.

Kim Harrison

#35. Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. It seems a shallow observation, but ... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?

Jeremy Hardy

#37. anti-fascist protective measure'. I have always been fond of this term which has something of the prophylactic about it, protecting easterners from the western disease of shallow materialism. It obeys all the logic of locking up free people to keep them safe from criminals.

Anna Funder

#38. In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.

Billy Graham

#39. Narcissists commonly cut people off and out of their lives due to their shallow emotional style of seeing others as either good or bad.

Karyl McBride

#40. We deceive ourselves if we believe we can hold on to old models as ideologies whimper off to a shallow grave in prolonged agony of people, institutions and cultures.

Said Elias Dawlabani

#41. I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.

Nina LaCour

#42. 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 depth.

Deb Caletti

#43. People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

Ali Hewson

#44. It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.

Margaret Stohl

#45. I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.

John Lennon

#46. I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Oscar Wilde

#47. If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

Howard Rheingold

#48. 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

#49. 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.

Fran Kranz

#50. I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Kurt Cobain

#51. Who wants to hide from the truth? 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. #TRUTH

Tarryn Fisher

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

Donna Lynn Hope

#53. Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being that has achieved cross-level coherence within herself, and between herself and the people, challenges, and institutions around her. Happiness comes from between.

Jonathan Haidt

#54. The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality

Eckhart Tolle

#55. People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.

Torquil Campbell

#56. The Earth orbits round tables.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#57. I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

Jack Ma

#58. Glenn! Most people want to die when they get the stomach flu. You threw up everything but your spleen and you just kept going." My eyes well up and my breathing gets shallow. "For Danny." "Nah. For you! You're a tough motherfucker, Glenn.

Glenn Rockowitz

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

John Piper

#60. Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people.

Steven Magee

#61. We're not shallow people. Rather, we've just gotten used to relating on levels that avoid soul issues.

Kary Oberbrunner

#62. I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Lady Gaga

#63. He'd thought he was over caring what people thought about him. He'd thought that loving Eleanor proved that. But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself.

Rainbow Rowell

#64. We do not talk about wise men or wise ladies any more, she reflected; their place had been taken, it seemed, by all sorts of shallow people - actors and the like - who were only too ready to pronounce on all sorts of subjects.

Alexander McCall Smith

#65. It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Imelda Marcos

#66. ... 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 quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.

John Muir

#67. All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as a job credential, one that ironically does not even live up to its own claims of guaranteeing either decent employment or a better way of life.

Henry Giroux