Profound Quotes - Page 36

• I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.

  Anais Nin

  Real, Drama, Stuff

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• Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Order, Roots, Nervous

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• In the opening chapters of the Book of Revelation the Apostle John tells us how on the Isle of Patmos he was given an awesome vision of the Lord Jesus, risen from the dead. Then John says, 'When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead.' He tells us not only the vision itself, but the profound effect it had on him. It utterly prostrated him before the Lord until He came and laid His right hand on him and said 'Fear not.'

  Roy Hession

  Jesus, Book, Feet

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• Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

  Jacques Rivette

  Doubt, Film, Made

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• The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it.

  W. G. Sebald

  Taken, Mirrors, Civilization

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• A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.

  Marcel Proust

  Men, Feelings, Suffering

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.316, Modern Library

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• Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

  Ella Leya

  Vices, Desert, Erratic

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• Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.

  Ron Rash

  Moving, Book, Heart

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• The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

  Earl Nightingale

  Self Esteem, World, Way

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• You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

  Archie Shepp

  Jumping, People, Dancing

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• I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

  Paloma Faith

  Style, Stuff, Arise

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• What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Dna, Library, Peeking

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• To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Feelings

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.123

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• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and
  deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with
  an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic
  cocktail!

  Don Was

  Running, America, Voice

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• The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gratitude, Atheist, Worst Moments

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• With the growing recognition of the value of herbs, it is surely time to examine the professional therapeutic use of these herbs. There are profound changes happening in the American culture and herbal medicine, 'green medicine,' is playing an ever-increasing role in people's experience of this transformation.

  David Hoffman

  Medicine, People, Use

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, Dark, Winter

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

  Emile Zola

  Tyrants, Sometimes, Observation

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• Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

  Charles Simmons

  Witty, Order, Expression

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.3

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• In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

  Lowell Milken

  Differences, People, Endeavour

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• The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.

  Pope John Paul II

  Attitude, Exercise, People

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• Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

  Elizabeth Kim

  May, Eternal, Nothingness

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• It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Philosophy, Book, Character

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.64, Shambhala Publications

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• I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having experienced applied socialism in a country where the alternative has been realized, I certainly will not speak for it. The well-known Soviet mathematician Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliant book under the title Socialism; it is a profound analysis showing that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Book, Offering

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Active, Persons

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.268, Penguin

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