Deep Down Quotes - Page 13

• You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

  Anne Rice

  Moving, Book, Down And

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• There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

  Richard Rorty

  Motivational, Belief, Deep Inside

  Richard Rorty (1982). “Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-1980”, p.42, U of Minnesota Press

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• George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

  Matt Taibbi

  Religious, Heart, Cynical

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• Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Sick, Feelings, Want

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Lying, Names

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

  Gabrielle Union

  People, I Realized

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• And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs— Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Faith, Morning, Spring

  'God's Grandeur' (written 1877)

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• But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.

  Herman Melville

  Joy, Down And, Woe

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.366

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• --Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

  Donald Barthelme

  Fighting, Thinking, Order

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• ...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect.

  Mitch Albom

  Spirit, Humans, Knows

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.

  Karl Pilkington

  Running, Mean, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.

  Robert Orben

  Country, Feelings, World

  "The Tribune's View: The oil crisis - Shall we continue to fiddle?" by Henry J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune, April 29, 2008.

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• It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.

  Apolo Ohno

  Sports, Art, Philosophy

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• Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Art, Dark

  "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye". "Sight & Sound" Magazine, June 1991.

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• Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

  Bono

  Fire, Flames, Needs

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• The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Procrastination, Men, Truth Is

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.64, New Directions Publishing

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• Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.

  Peter Camejo

  Determination, Self, People

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• You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Iran, Talking

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• No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.

  Russell Brand

  Self, Ideas, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.

  Puff Daddy

  Angel, White, Puff

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

  Ava Gardner

  Inspiration, Superficial

  Quoted in Roland Flamini, Ava (1983)

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• I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

  Arsenio Hall

  Dream, Down And, Failing

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• Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Space, Car, Important

  "The joy of simply faffing around" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2008.

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• There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.

  LL Cool J

  Beautiful, Father, Kids

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• You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Fog, Groups

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