Profound Quotes

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Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the… — Jaron Lanier
In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to… — Joshua Bell
The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are… — Mayim Bialik
I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible,… — Lisa Scottoline
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from… — Simon Winchester
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic… — Adam Hochschild
When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I… — Criss Angel
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its… — Donna Leon
I think, first and foremost ,Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking… — Kathryn Lasky
The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and… — Anthony Lewis
Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. — Carolina Herrera
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner… — A. S. Byatt
And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the… — Niels Bohr
If we come to the point of retaining a sense of a proportion in the midst of all the smallest as well as in the… — Unknown Author
Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow and my profound regret for all my actions and mistakes. I hope I can merit… — Jack Abramoff
DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and… — Ambrose Bierce
The first step to wisdom is to avoid the common fallacy which considers everything profound that is obscure — Gregory Nunn
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will of… — Paul Gauguin
What I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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