Top 33 Surface Level Quotes
#1. I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.
Samantha Harvey
#2. Soul is found where life deepens us, where meaning calls to us, where trouble deters us, wherever and however we slow down in the midst of the rushing and racing at the surface level of life.
Michael Meade
#3. The best conversationalists don't just engage on the literal, surface level of conversation. They listen instead to tonality, pay attention to eye contact, note shifts in body language.
Charlie Houpert
#4. I think, on a surface level, people are surprised to see me playing such a passive role in 'Good.'
Viggo Mortensen
#5. On a surface level, all one finds is repeated forms of shallow whispers. Having the courage to explore deeply, a wealth of buried infinite lifetimes emerge - an undeniable force.
T.F. Hodge
#6. Christian art, like obscene art, is surface level.
Anonymous
#7. The rhythm of researching and querying holds all the fascination, endorphins, and residual scarring of picking a scab. It's a habit I easily fall into but without more than surface level ambition driving it can turn into a haphazard, oozing mess.
S. Kelley Harrell
#8. It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.
Lee Strobel
#9. On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?
Cynthia Daignault
#10. When we assess someone's life or health on the basis of surface-level observations or passing comments, it presents us with a very flawed version of reality.
Evita Ochel
#11. Don't take anything literally but always look deeper. For example, if you drink too much, what is your soul looking for in the alcohol? If you eat too much, what part of your soul is in need of nourishing? Think poetically and never respond on a surface level. 4.
Thomas Moore
#12. there really is no such thing as equality, just different levels of inequality, and how hard are you willing to fight for it all? Fuck. Did
Laurell K. Hamilton
#13. Constructionism thus impoverishes humanity, by subtracting from our human powers and accrediting all of them - selfhood, reflexivity, thought, memory and emotionality - to society's discourse.
Margaret Scotford Archer
#15. When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.
James A. Forbes
#16. It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.
Ibrahim Hooper
#17. We need to empower every single child no matter who you are, no matter where you come from to have the best education and the best future.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#18. 350. - Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#19. His hair was red, and his eyes were a color blue that put the ocean to shame.
Embee
#20. L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
Zach Galligan
#21. Take one vial of my blood and I will not die.
But if you continue taking it, one vial at a time ...
slowly ... I will die, slowly. But make no mistake. I will die.
It is the same with my rights.
Jose N. Harris
#22. The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
Jules Verne
#23. Oprah is rich; Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out of a ... window and slit his throat on the way down saying, 'I can't even put gas in my plane!'
Chris Rock
#24. We all are influenced by things and copy things, but often where there is a certain level of copying, only the surface value ends up being reproduced and that becomes thinner and thinner. I feel like a lot of appropriation suffers from that.
Jason Fulford
#25. My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.
Cole Hauser
#26. I worked with great, brilliant directors. I've been so lucky. It's terrible to compare anyone, because you can't. But I can just tell you that this experience was just a truly magnificent experience for everyone involved.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#27. Just because it had happened before didn't mean it wasn't serious. It didn't mean he didn't need them.
Rainbow Rowell
#28. There is so much information in one Hebrew word that translators are hard pressed to decide how much information should be cut. Since the first official translation (the Septuagint), Jewish translators advocated translating Hebrew (for outsiders) at the 'story' level.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#29. Beauty is on one level pure surface, and on the other hand, it's the most complex subject that we can touch upon because it says everything about us as people. It's a subject we very quickly begin to argue about. I think that's so interesting.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#30. If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.
Geri Halliwell
#31. The way those old memories kept bubbling to the surface in the present tense was disturbing. It was as if the past had never died; as if on some level of time's great tower, everything was still happening.
Stephen King
#32. I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.
Emily Mortimer
#33. Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.
Joss Whedon
