Deep Down Quotes - Page 11

• When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep down to say something unkind. We want to open our hearts to people, but we can't do it, because we are being ordered around by the sufferings we have concealed deep in our consciousness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sweet, Heart, People

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• I always loved the Clippers. You root for the underdog. Obviously, everybody in L.A. is a Laker fan, but deep down inside, you root for the Clippers. If you're a true Los Angelean, that's how it happens. You always want the Clippers to do well.

  Baron Davis

  Roots, Underdog, Lakers

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• In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

  Zubin Mehta

  Symphony, Four, Tone

  Zubin Mehta, Renate v Matuschka (2009). “Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Facts are fine, fer as they go ... but they're like water bugs skittering atop the water. Legends, now - they go deep down and bring up the heart of a story.

  Marguerite Henry

  Heart, Water, Stories

  Marguerite Henry (2012). “Misty of Chincoteague”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Sadness, Mean, Breathing

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics

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• I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a certain degree, but deep down I think most people are good and would like to be good.

  Nolan North

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Uncharted 3 interview – Nolan North on chasing pictures". Interview with David Jenkins, metro.co.uk. November 1, 2011.

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• It's something in me, deep down, that makes me different in a race.

  Eamonn Coghlan

  Race, Different

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• No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Men, Privacy

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.404, Courier Corporation

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• Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.

  Juliette Binoche

  Mother, Real, Needs

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• One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Inspiration, Should Have, Work Out

  "Sir Arthur Sullivan: Life-story, Letters and Reminiscences". Book by Arthur Lawrence, London: James Bowden, p. 225, 1899.

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• They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

  Audrey Meadows

  Sympathy, Character, Boys

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• A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.

  Bert Williams

  Running, Song, Real

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• A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite

  Robert Ruark

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

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• I believe that everybody needs to tell their story - to be heard, to be seen, to be acknowledged, to be understood. We all want that, deep down inside - and writing a book is a great way to make sense of your own experience and to share it with others.

  Shakti Gawain

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear. A favorable situation can become dangerous. Deep down we know that life is insecure and precarious. However, if we do trust, the shiver carries with it a philosophical optimism: Life, with all its traps and horrors,  is good The bet is implicit in trust itself. If we could be sure of everyone and everything, trust would have no value - like money, if it were suddenly limitless, or sunshine, if there were always fine weather, or life, if we were to live forever

  Piero Ferrucci

  Philosophical, Sunshine, Insecure

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• The line between seduction and prostitution is very blurred, and deep down, everyone knows it.

  Virginie Despentes

  Lines, Seduction, Prostitution

  Virginie Despentes (2010). “King Kong Theory”, p.59, Profile Books

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• Perhaps one reason that many working parents do not agitate for collective reform, such as more governmental or corporate child care, is that the parents fear, deep down, that to share responsibility for child rearing is to abdicate it.

  Faye J Crosby

  Children, Responsibility, Working Parents

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

  Keith Ablow

  Want

  Keith Russell Ablow, MD (2005). “Murder Suicide: A Novel”, p.303, St. Martin's Press

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• That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down... I still believe it was.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Believe, Way, Stills

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• Occasionally I sense an insane wail deep down in the pit, the echo alone reaching me, striking without warning, a child weeping uninhibitedly, imprisoned forever.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Children, Echoes, Forever

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• Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is.

  Michael Grant

  Good Person, Diana, Said

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• I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Confused, Thinking

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• Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

  J.A. Redmerski

  Yesterday, Needs, Want

  J. A. Redmerski (2013). “The Edge of Never”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?

  J.A. Redmerski

  Want, Break

  J. A. Redmerski (2013). “The Edge of Never”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• You never think it will happen to you. You think about what it would be like. You go through it over and over in your mind, changing the scenario slightly each time, but deep down, you don't really believe it would ever happen, because it's something that happens to someone else, not to you.

  Tonya Hurley

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

  Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl”, p.9, Hachette UK

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