Profound Quotes - Page 38

• I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

  Louise Brown

  Book, Impact, Picks

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• All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Regret, Europe, People

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• There was one titanic guiding light on the film set, and I was in the presence of a true Mahatma, in the deepest and most profound sense of the word.

  Ben Kingsley

  Light, Film, Film Set

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• I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Mean, Perspective

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• The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Heart, Order

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• It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

  Charles Lyell

  Mean, Men, Order

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• Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

  Johannes Tauler

  Blessed, Godly, Exercise

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• I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

  Edward Tufte

  Believe, Order, Design

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• It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.

  Asa Gray

  Real, Animal, Two

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural science and religion, 2 lectures”

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• That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

  Barbara Mertz

  Ignorance, Maturity, Parent

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• You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.

  Pamela Des Barres

  Nice, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• My dog and two cats are such a vital part of my life. To say that I am their owner doesn't reflect at all the profound bond and responsibility that I have towards them.

  Tiffani Thiessen

  Dog, Cat, Responsibility

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

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• I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

  Montel Williams

  Black And White, Thinking, Europe

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview,

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• What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.

  Andrew Bird

  Eye, Music Is, Effects

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• Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

  Paul Berg

  Moving, Dna, Natural

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• Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

  Rob Bell

  Imagination, Suffering, Demand

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• For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it's only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I've really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way.

  Ellen Forney

  Art, Pain, Thinking

  "Interview: Ellen Forney on Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and 'Marbles'". Interview with Eddie Wright, www.mtv.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

  Jorja Fox

  War, Thinking, Making Love

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• Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Doctors, Ethical Issues

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• Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Engineering, Media

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• Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.

  Anthony Giddens

  Philosophical, Taken, Mean

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• I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

  Robert Delaunay

  Believe, Culture, Looks

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• With comedy I can search for the profound.

  Dario Fo

  Comedy, I Can

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• I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. It's always at the back of my mind - let's give up this silly business of film-making and concentrate on something more satisfying and worthwhile.

  Peter Greenaway

  Thinking, Want, Painting

  "I plan to kill myself when I'm 80". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

  Adam Hamilton

  Way, Study, Inspired

  "The Bible and Congressman Broun" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2012.

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