Deep Down Quotes - Page 6

• The fact that God accepts us should be our motivation for accepting ourselves. If we cannot accept ourselves the way we are, with our limitations and assets, weaknesses as well as strengths, shortcomings as well as abilities; then we cannot trust anyone else to accept us the way we are. We will always be putting on a front, building a facade around ourselves, never letting people know what we are really like deep down inside.

  Josh McDowell

  Christian, Motivation, People

  Josh McDowell (1990). “His Image...My Image”, Nelsonword Publishing Group

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• One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

  Amos Oz

  Sea, Secret, Facts

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• Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

  Renee Zellweger

  Girl, Dream, Children

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• Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

  David Byrne

  People, Creative, Intuition

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. October 15, 2008.

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• But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.

  Katharine Weber

  Eye, Mean, People

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.16, Crown

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• Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

  May Sarton

  Understanding, Essentials, Facts

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, People, Waiting

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• Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Jobs, Inspire, Want

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• I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.

  John Oliver

  Thinking, Voice, People

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• Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

  Pema Chodron

  Waiting, Spirit, Humans

  "Redefining Courage" by Barbara Bonner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2017.

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• She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beauty, Beautiful, Girl

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• She feels so contented in giving birth to a child, in helping the child to grow; and that's why she does not need any other kind of creativity. Her creative urge is fulfilled. But man is in trouble: he cannot give birth to a child, he cannot have the child in his womb. He has to find a substitute, otherwise he will always feel inferior to the woman. And deep down he does feel that he is inferior. Because of that feeling of inferiority man tries to create paintings, statues, dramas, he writes poetry, novels, explores the whole scientific world of creativity.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Drama, Writing

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• I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Waiting, New Life, Conviction

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep down, it was exactly what she wanted, leaving her more confused that she'd been in years.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Confused, Years, Two

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “True Believer”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Self, Hysteria

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• On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.

  Dean Koontz

  Dream, Heart, Dark

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• In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Vision, Trials

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.881, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep down. How paltry we are and how spectacularly we contort ourselves before our own eyes, and the eyes of others...And all for what? To hide what? To make people believe what?

  Roberto Bolano

  Believe, Eye, Simple

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• some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

  Judy Blume

  Way, Truth Is, Happens

  FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Sep 25, 2012

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• Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

  K.J. Parker

  Believe, Writing, Earth

  K. J. Parker (2009). “Devices And Desires: The Engineer Trilogy: Book One”, p.219, Hachette UK

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• Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Desire, Fascination

  Margaret Atwood (2002). “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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• You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

  Jodi Picoult

  Art, Believe, Guy

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• This business of really knowing people, deep down, including your own self, it is not something you can learn in school or from a book. It takes your whole being to do it—your eyes and your ears, your brain and your heart. Maybe your heart most of all. —Bobby Goodspeed

  James Howe

  Book, Heart, School

  James Howe (2011). “The Misfits”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• It will hurt. Because deep down, I'll know there was someone.. someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that?

  Meg Cabot

  Hurt, Waiting, Kind

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Heaven Sent”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

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• If somebody actually just walks up to you and says, ‘Hey, do you want to do something out of the ordinary?’ there might be a little reluctance at first. But deep down, you want to do it. It’s adventure. That’s what brings people in front of the camera. I also feel that when you’re in your own environment that’s where you experiment, where you do all kinds of crazy stuff. So I thought, ‘Okay, let’s just see what happens if I allow that to unfold.’

  Oliver Herring

  Crazy, Adventure, People

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