Profound Quotes
1328 Profound quotes by 1008 unique authors
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
— Jonathan Kozol
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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
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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
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To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.
— Eric Liu
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I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
— Shirley MacLaine
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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
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It's only words... unless they're true.
— David Mamet
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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
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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
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
— H. L. Mencken
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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
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My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
— Spike Milligan
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He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
— Moliere
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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
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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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Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.
— Jason Mraz
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Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
— Edward R. Murrow
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How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
— Alfred de Musset
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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