One Deep Quotes

• Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.

  Freya Stark

  Discipline, Solitude, Ordinary

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• Because you need me," he said, drawing in his breath as she squirmed against him. "Just as I need you." He crushed his mouth to hers. "I've needed you for years." Another kiss, this one deep and drugging, his tongue searching her intimately

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kissing, Years, Drawing

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• Although one never really knows what one's associates think of one deep down, I believe I was easy to work with, even though I have the reputation of being authoritative. Still, I've always delegated responsibility and authority to other; I've always listened to opposing views and suggestions with an open mind.

  Guy de Rothschild

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  Guy de Rothschild (1985). “The whims of fortune”

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• When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Unity, Deep Thought

  Jacob Bronowski (1965). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Focus, Intensity

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• It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return.

  John Mihaljevic

  Opportunity, Promise, Return

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