Profound Quotes

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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet. — Naveen Jain
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' — Lyndon B. Johnson
The most profound statements are often said in silence. — Lynn Johnston
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. — June Jordan
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. — Joseph Joubert
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum. — Joseph Joubert
My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life. — Mindy Kaling
A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business. — Jack Kevorkian
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries… — Soren Kierkegaard
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. — Jonathan Kozol
We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation:… — Anne Lamott
Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a… — Jaron Lanier
To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure. — Eric Liu
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. — Shirley MacLaine
I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect… — Karl Malone
It's only words... unless they're true. — David Mamet
I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound… — George R. R. Martin
I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache… — Richard Marx
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. — H. L. Mencken
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose,… — Thomas Merton
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. — Spike Milligan
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure. — Moliere
I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident -… — Alanis Morissette
No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound… — Toni Morrison

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