Quotes About Superficial

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn't notice and doesn't need.

Envy is a one-dimensional, shallow emotion. It roots in superficial soil and withers in the bright light of intimacy.

Emoticône. Le nom est aussi vulgaire que la chose.Je hais ces trucs de feignants. Au lieu d'exprimer un sentiment, on l'expédie. On appuie sur une touche et tous les sourires du monde sont pareils. Les joies, les doutes, le chagrin, la colère, tout a la même gueule. Tous les élans du coeur se retrouvent réduits à cinq ronds hideux.

E-mails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u.

Pour un homme. Et quand je le vois, là, dans le hall de l'ambassade, je le trouve insignifiant, joli garçon, c'est tout. Je relis Anna Karenine.

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

Benny McClenahan arrived always with four girls. They were never quite the same ones in physical person but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before. I have forgotten their names — Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would confess themselves to be.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It

a reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.

If there is one thing I loathe, it's a reformer. A reformer is a man who sees the superficial ills of the world and proposes curing them by making the more deep-seated ills still worse.

Si odio algo, es a un reformista. Un reformista es un hombre que ve los males superficiales del mundo y se propone curarlos agravando los fundamentales.

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.

I thought journalism would enable me to be a mile wide and an inch deep.

I think I've been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project to project. I think my art has become more accomplished, although I try to keep it from becoming slick or superficial.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

Maybe superficial is exactly what I want right now. If you don't talk about anything that matters, no one can say anything that'll hurt you--and you don't have to talk about the things that are eating away at you from the inside.

Ratiocination is a relatively superficial and unreal path to the deity.

One tooth missing. And only half roughed. on one side only. I'd not call her pretty.

La fama es la versión más barata, inestable y artificial del triunfo.

Although Emilie Perle had schooled him well in how to love without being loved in return, he could now see how this state of lovelessness had made him obsessive in his quest for superficial order and control.

Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.