Profound Quotes - Page 6

• I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.

  Mike Royko

  Movie, Couple, Philosophy

  Mike Royko, Lois Wille (2000). “One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

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• Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Husband, Underestimate, Seems

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• I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Counter Culture, Different, Reactions

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• One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

  Jane Smiley

  Philosophy, Order, People

  "Other Economists in the Room" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2009.

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• Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  Barbara Smith

  Color, White, People

  "Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism".

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• Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.

  Kristen Stewart

  Girl, Character, People

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• I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Mother, Believe, Planets

  "Kiefer Sutherland Talks Touch Season 1" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

  Jonathan Swift

  Understanding, Literature, Understood

  Jonathan Swift (2004). “A Modest Proposal and Other Prose”, p.57, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• 'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

  Anna Torv

  Reality, Fringe, Sci Fi

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• Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

  Bob Woodward

  Agreement, Culture, Clinton

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• If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Hip Hop, Guy, Able

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• Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

  Greg Graffin

  Memories, Impact, Afterlife

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• Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them in their place through roles and ritual practices, and in addition to developing a sense of shame, they will order themselves harmoniously

  Confucius

  Order, Law, Practice

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• The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

  Bob Dylan

  Truth, Philosophy, Obscure

  Song: Where Are You Tonight?

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• I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Way, Youth

  Herman Melville (2016). “Bartleby, The Scrivener”, p.3, Herman Melville

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• I've made a profound transformation. I've fashioned some cyber-underwear. I'm not scared of anything! Actually, I am scared of a few things. Cyber world is a world of adventure, a new galaxy. I'm big on adventure. But I don't assume that just because the word cyber is being used as a prefix, doesn't give it anymore value or credence. Cyber relationships have the illusion of intimacy, sometimes with the absence of intimacy. Is it better to have a conversation in a café or on the telephone?

  Tom Waits

  Adventure, Giving, Underwear

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• Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death

  Homer

  Sleep, Counterfeit, Delicious

  Homer (1991). “The Odyssey”, Penguin Classics

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• Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us--beyond language--to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

  Cornel West

  Passion, Dark, Roots

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• That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

  Douglas Adams

  Cute, Girl, Sarcastic

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.128, Pan Macmillan

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• you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dark, Night, Light

  Joyce Carol Oates (1991). “Heat and other stories”, E P Dutton

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• It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Found, Profound Truth, Deep Things

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2014). “Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community”, p.87, Princeton University Press

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• Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Humorous, Math

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• She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone.

  Mario Puzo

  Prayer, Children, Believe

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.345, Penguin

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• Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Needs, Growing, Spirit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.241, Modern Library

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• By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Religious, Fire

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