Profound Quotes · Page 13

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

— Delmore Schwartz

“You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.”

— Bryant McGill

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

— Paulo Coelho

I love black. Anything black transforms lives in a profound way, particularly for women.

— Kenneth Cole

You're a transsexual fighting with a hermaphrodite over a mistress.

— Jerry Springer

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

— Oliver Sacks

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

— Oscar Wilde

Your dreams are always going to seem much more profound to you then they are to your friend.

— Nick Offerman

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

— Mindy Kaling

“One of the more profound lessons that I've learnt in politics is that everything is related to everything else. Nothing exists in…

— Bernie Sanders

Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.

— Steven Blum

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

— Barbara Mertz

I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do…

— Stephen Covey

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their…

— Barbara Boxer

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than…

— Jaron Lanier

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and…

— Laura Linney

Equally important is the lack of cultivable land for farmers, a profound problem when you take into account that Afghanistan has always…

— Khaled Hosseini

Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body. ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks…

— Emile Chartier

If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet, it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve…

— John Glenn

There are several sources for my appreciation of pastors and the way they are described in this book. One of them is…

— Marilynne Robinson

There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as…

— D. H. Lawrence

Adults who loved and knew me, on many occasions sat me down and told me that I was black. As you could…

— Shaun King

“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was risking a very promising and lucrative future in the business world that I was all set up to receive. I…

— Idara Victor

It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an…

— Christopher Alexander

A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of…

— James Madison

The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by…

— Tana French

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired…

— Lauren Willig

We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their…

— Michele Bachmann

When money, instead of man, is at the center of the system, when money becomes an idol, men and women are reduced…

— Pope Francis

I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.

— Edsger Dijkstra

You must be always true to your principles and profound ideals.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

— Cy Twombly

I love Richmond. I think growing up here had a profound influence on my music.

— Jason Becker