Profound Quotes

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Character is what you are in the dark. — Dwight L. Moody
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said.… — Frank Herbert
So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take… — Elizabeth Chandler
I always say that love is like the meat in a pie,” Freddy put in. “The crust is what people see—the practical things that hold… — Sabrina Jeffries
The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to… — David Hume
LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me… — Alan Moore
I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really… — John Green
Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His… — Charlaine Harris
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or… — D. H. Lawrence
My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between… — Augusten Burroughs
There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger. — Libba Bray
Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and… — F B Meyer
Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with… — Maya Angelou
Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous… — Cassandra Clare
Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said,… — Brennan Manning
The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all,… — Jean Baudrillard
Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular… — Pablo Neruda
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten. — Anne Frank
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny. — Victor Hugo
Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry,… — Ian Mcewan
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that… — Kate Morton
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your… — Conan O'Brien
On two chairs beneath the bole of the tree and canopied by a living bough there sat, side by side, Celeborn and Galadriel. Very tall… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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