#shallow

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#eternity #shallow #silence #speech #time

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#depths #drown #elephant #lamb #shallows

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#because #been #cheerful #creep #errors

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

#deceived #defeat #dejan-stojanovic #delay #important

Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device' And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before 'Relax,' said the night man, 'We are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you like, But you can never leave ... ↗

— The Eagles

#california #gluttony #greed #shallowness #sin

...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

#rumors #shallow #judgement

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. ↗

— Peter Farrelly

#bigger #creepy #date #girl #her

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

#god #god love #here #i #i do

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. ↗

— Will McDonough

#good #groomed #journalists #many #really

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#away #blessed #carries #country #earth