Deeper Quotes - Page 2

• It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

  Robert Southey

  Happiness, Teacher, Teaching

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" ed. by Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company, (p. 52), 1908.

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• You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Respect, Thinking, Self

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• Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Advice is like snow--the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Fall, Snow, Advice

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• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Thinking, Wish

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• The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Mean, Light, Illumination

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

  Etta James

  Men, Nerves, Done

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• You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

  Billy Sunday

  Lying, Pay, Envelopes

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Fear cuts deeper than swords.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fear, Cutting, Ice

  George R. R. Martin (2016). “A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.566, Bantam

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• i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Eye, Small Hands

  W (1931) "somewhere I have never travelled"

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• the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Eye, Small Hands

  W (1931) "somewhere I have never travelled"

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• It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.

  Stephen Covey

  Character, Catching Fire, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1997). “First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There”, Simon and Schuster

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• We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

  Sarojini Naidu

  Inspiring, Courage, Speech

  Sarojini Naidu, Makarand R. Paranjape (1996). “Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s”

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• But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Children, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry Of The Children”

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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Laughter, Wine

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Night, Soul, Logic

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.21, Wildside Press LLC

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• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Love, Cute, Happiness

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.18

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• I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.

  Albert Ellis

  Form, Therapy, Psychoanalysis

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• The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Meaning Of Life, Absence

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

  James Russell Lowell

  Ocean, Literature, Morality

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.61

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• The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Thinking, Painting

  "Jackson Pollock" by Francis V. O'Connor, (p. 79), 1967.

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• Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

  Herbert Read

  Progress, Literature, Intensity

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

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• Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

  Agnes Repplier

  Funny, Patience, Humor

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• The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

  Sting

  Spiritual, Yoga, Journey

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• True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Positive, Meaningful, Humility

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