Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.

“I loved him in the way that one loves those who no longer matter: poignantly.”

— Molly O'Neill

The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in this school…

— William Boyd

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

— Samuel Richardson

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

— Nick Cave

The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which…

— Luis de Camoes

I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually…

— Colin Hanks

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me…

— Marcus Aurelius

Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to…

— Rajneesh

Edge also implies what Ben Graham…called a margin of safety. You have a margin of safety when you buy an asset at a price…

— Michael Mauboussin

Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the…

— Francis Thompson

It's hard to pick. I mean, I think the one that is most emblematic of the collaboration that occurred is "We Know The Way."…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out…

— Kat Edmonson

The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel not disturbed.…

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

— Romare Bearden