Deeper Quotes

• Storms make trees take deeper roots.

  Dolly Parton

  Life, Strength, Depression

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2009

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• Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Mean, Voice

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2016

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• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

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• Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Women, Valentine

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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• Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

  George Herbert

  Roots, Challenges, Storm

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Yoga, Compassion, Selfless

  M.A. Center, Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Lead Us To The Light”, p.216, M A Center

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• My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Focus, Important, Mystery

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• I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

  Ted Lange

  Faith, Encouragement, Thinking

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• Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Women, Empowering, Achievement

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• String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

  Edward Witten

  Nature, Thinking, Littles

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• You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

  H. R. Giger

  Painting, Kind, Mystery

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• I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

  Zane Grey

  Stronger, Toil, Treasure

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• And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Book, Struggle, Giving

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

  George Meredith

  Country, Fighting, Men

  George Meredith, William Maxse Meredith (1912). “1844-1881”

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• Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

  Avi Arad

  Heart, Character, Stories

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• We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

  Ella Maillart

  People, Understanding, Boards

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• High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country.

  Dennis C. Blair

  Country, Organization, Understanding

  "Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says". www.nytimes.com. April 21, 2009.

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• One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

  Don DeLillo

  Integrity, Swings, Literature

  Don DeLillo (1992). “Mao II: A Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

  Alexander Lebed

  Kids, Russia, Years

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Naked, Body, Tradition

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• Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Ocean, Sea, Pouring

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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