Depth Quotes - Page 6

• Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Narrative, Height, Action

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• I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

  Paul Farmer

  Medicine, Height, Critique

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• The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Country, Wall, Poverty

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• Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

  Walter Lang

  Ocean, Blessing, Men

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• The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes

  Art Linkletter

  Depression, Jobs, Pay

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• Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

  Federica Montseny

  Honesty, Spring, Heart

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• The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.

  Georges Cuvier

  Sea, Land, Levels

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• In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Surface

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• The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

  Edward Forbes

  Looks, Shells, Worn

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• The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

  Kurt Sutter

  Lazy, Records, Journalism

  "Captain Qwitter and the Battle of the super cunts" by Kurt Sutter, sutterink.blogspot.ru. August 14, 2011.

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• We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.

  Ron Jaworski

  Sports, Football, Team

  "Philadelphia Soul President Ron Jaworski". Interview with Fran Stuchbury, www.oursportscentral.com. August 15, 2005.

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• Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.

  Brad Warner

  Beauty, Practice, Missing

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.65, New World Library

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• I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

  James A. Garfield

  Moving, Science, Men

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.777, Best Books on

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• The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

  Leon Trotsky

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Fall

  Leon Trotsky, George Breitman, George Saunders (1977). “Portraits, political & personal”

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• Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

  Stefan Zweig

  Reality, Understanding, World

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• In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Real, Real Beauty, Accomplish

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• According to String Theory, what appears to be empty space is actually a tumultuous ocean of strings vibrating at the precise frequencies that create the 4 dimensions you and I call height, width, depth and time.

  Roy H. Williams

  Ocean, Space, Height

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• No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

  Georges Bernanos

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Lonely

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.223, Da Capo Press

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• For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Sleep, Needs, Daylight

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

  Amelia Barr

  Kings, Mistake, Moving

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.170, Litres

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• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  Hans Bender

  Evil, Being Positive, Mind

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• I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Interesting, Strategic

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.104, Melville House

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• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

  Karl Jaspers

  Historical, My Own, Judged

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• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Christian, Spirit, Holy

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• You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Height, Literature, Manhood

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