Profound Quotes
Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.
My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.
It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.
Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.
There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.
When we ponder His voluntary atonement, any sense of sacrifice on our part becomes completely overshadowed by a profound sense of gratitude for the privilege of serving Him.
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.
I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.
The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
Profound insights arise only in debate, with a possibility of counterargument, only when there is a possibility of expressing not only correct ideas but also dubious ideas.
For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'
Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.
Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.
Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature.
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.
Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.
You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
There is no counsel like God's counsel. No comfort like His comfort. No wisdom more profound than the wisdom of the Scriptures.
What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.
I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something you can figure out how to build.
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.
I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.
