Deeper Quotes

• Storms make trees take deeper roots.

  Dolly Parton

  Life, Strength, Depression

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2009

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• Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Mean, Voice

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2016

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• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

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• Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Women, Valentine

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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• Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

  George Herbert

  Roots, Challenges, Storm

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

  Trofim Lysenko

  Philosophy, Teaching, Development

  Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1948). “Soviet Biology: Report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences”

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• Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche.

  George Crumb

  Spiritual, Interesting, Levels

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• We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

  Joe Chung

  Skins, Blind

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• Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Ocean, Humor

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• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Sad, Looks, May

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

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• Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

  Naomi Campbell

  Self Esteem, Loneliness, Issues

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• The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ego, Trying

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• The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.

  Billy Corgan

  People, Musician, Want

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• Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Cheating, Struggle, Satisfaction

  Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940

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• The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Foundation, Architecture, Building

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• By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

  Thomas Merton

  Music, Reading, Blue

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• Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Hope, Fear, Lying

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

  Serena Williams

  Family, What Matters, Games

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• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Inspirational Love, Heart

  Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”

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• True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

  E. O. Wilson

  Character, Atheism, Arise

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.365, Vintage

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• I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Adventure, Thinking, Grieving

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• However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

  Garrett Hardin

  Religious, Thinking, Roots

  Garrett James Hardin (1982). “Naked emperors: essays of a taboo-stalker”, Course Technology Ptr

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• Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

  Johan Huizinga

  Depression, Beautiful, Confusing

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• I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.

  John Mellencamp

  Digging

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