Profoundly Quotes
435 Profoundly quotes by 373 unique authors
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We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in…
— William J. Clinton
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There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is…
— Percival Lowell
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Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with…
— Thomas Oden
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I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but…
— Richard Griffiths
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We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The chief contribution of such a radically new and more powerful instrument would be, not to supplement our present ideas of the universe we live…
— Lyman Spitzer
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The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our…
— Joshua Foer
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Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the…
— Neil Kinnock
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For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine…
— Carol S. Dweck
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I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.
— Aldous Huxley
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There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never…
— Margot Asquith
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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity.…
— Brooks Atkinson
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Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes vulgar and unacceptable.…
— Pablo Neruda
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It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching,…
— Lewis Thomas
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I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.
— Ryan McGinley
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Although I was raised in a profoundly secular home, I had a belief, an awareness of God, from as far back as I can remember.
— M. Scott Peck
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more…
— Tavis Smiley
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I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think…
— Ayelet Waldman
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Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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I want to tell stories about Europe - I feel profoundly European, I don't feel like an American.
— Roger Michell
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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
— Anandamayi Ma
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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I…
— Alastair Campbell
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To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.
— Claude Chabrol
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