Quotes About Depth

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Length is usually intensity. Not time.

Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it.

Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.

Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.

No one, not even my father, not even my children, has ever loved me the way that man loved me, that's for sure. There's something satisfying in being loved that hard, maybe more than loving that hard yourself.

He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.

and I imagine that, though cold and haughty in her general demeanor, and even exacting in her requirements, she has strong affections for those who can reach them . . .

There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.' 'Then

If she were more perfect she would be less interesting

No matter. There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

He is very fond of me, almost too fond.  I could do with less caressing and more rationality.  I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. 

But that word refuge disturbed me.  Had their unkindness then really driven her to seek for peace in solitude? 'Why have they left you alone?' I asked. 'It is I who have left them,' was the smiling rejoinder.  'I was wearied to death with small talk—nothing wears me out like that.  I cannot imagine how they can go on as they do.' I could not help smiling at the serious depth of her wonderment.

There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.

É possível olhar nos olhos de alguém, ver o coração da pessoa e descobrir mais sobre a altura, a largura e a profundidade de sua alma em uma hora do que em uma vida inteira, se o outro não estiver disposto a revelá-la ou se você não tiver a inteligência de compreender o que vê.

Reality is unforgivingly complex.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.