Profound Quotes - Page 37

• The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any "God," or any "sinner," or any "Saviour" that "free will" and the "moral order of the world" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Men, Reflection

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• I'm such a profound believer that timing is everything; I would tattoo that on my arm.

  Drew Barrymore

  Tattoo, Imperfection, Arms

  Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. January 7, 2013.

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• For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the urban poor, I have always found inspiration in the life of Gandhiji and in his simple and profound lesson to be the change we seek in the world. And just as he summoned Indians to seek their destiny, he influenced champions of equality in my own country, including a young Martin Luther King

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Kings

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• The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Running, Country

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.237, Canongate Books

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• Mourning is one of the most profound human experiences that it is possible to have.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Grief, Mourning, Human Experience

  Edwin S. Shneidman (1995). “Voices of Death”, Kodansha Globe

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• The most profound things are inexpressible.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art

  Jenny Holzer, Söke Dinkla (2006). “Die Macht des Wortes”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear. Movies are hardly ever about what they seem to be about. Look at a movie that a lot of people love, and you will find something profound, no matter how silly the film may be.

  Roger Ebert

  Silly, People, Desire

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert”, p.388, University of Chicago Press

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• Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Stars, Memories, Children

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• Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

  William J. Clinton

  Change, Powerful, Our World

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1, Best Books on

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• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Technology, World

  Interview with Alan Hall, June 23, 1997.

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• I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

  Roland Allen

  Believe, Thinking, Needs

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• As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Differences, Our World, Community

  Wayne Teasdale (2010). “A Monk in the World: Cultivating a Spiritual Life”, p.13, New World Library

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• Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.

  Tom Waits

  Short Life, Rain, Puddles

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• Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Flow, Surrender

  Twitter post from Nov 08, 2012

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• The sudden passing of Jack Bruce is terribly sad news. One of the greatest rock bassists to ever live and a true and profound inspiration to countless musicians. He was one of my first bass heroes and was a major influence on my playing and my music. My heartfelt condolences to his family and fans.

  Geddy Lee

  Inspiration, Hero, Condolences

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• Even as Ramadan holds profound meaning for the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, it is also a reminder to people of all faiths of our common humanity and the commitment to justice, equality, and compassion shared by all great faiths. In that spirit, I wish Muslims across America and around the world a blessed month, and I look forward to again hosting an iftar dinner here at the White House. Ramadan Kareem.

  Barack Obama

  Blessed, Commitment, Compassion

  "President Obama’s Statement On Ramadan", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2012.

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• The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Discipline, Tranquility

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Jesus, Doctrine, Taught

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• Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.

  Félix J. Palma

  Cousin, Attitude, Literary Genre

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• That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Citizens, Shapes, Athens

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.

  Tara Brach

  Expression, Attention, Pay Attention

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• Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Dream, Reality

  "Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6". Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.

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• It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.

  Buck Brannaman

  Waiting, May, Littles

  Buck Brannaman (2003). “Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen”, p.126, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

  Sally Field

  Children, Achievement, Parent

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• I've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  Rand Paul

  Children, Talking, Vaccines

  "Science Of Vaccines Is Settled - But Politics Are More Complicated". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. February 3, 2015.

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