Quotes About Depth

Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth on average .

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

We live in a world of evaluations, assessments, and measurements, but Jesus turns his gaze deeper because he knows that what is measurable can be faked.

What we are looking for in reading the Bible is the ability to turn the two-dimensional words on paper into a three-dimensional encounter with God, so that the text takes on life and meaning and depth and perspective and gives us direction for what to do today.

somewhere in the wash of interactions and split attentions is the missed possibility we're looking for: meaning. Depth of experience. Connection.

If you put Durant's brains in a thimble full of water they'd look like a ship lost in the middle of the sea.

Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.

And here is love like a tinsmith's scoop sunk past its glean in the meal-bin. --"Sunlight

We talk about "awe and wonder," but those are two different words. I am in awe of the universe: its scope, its complexity, its depth, its meticulous precision. But my primary feeling is wonder. Awe has connotations of reverence: "this fills me with awe and I am not worthy." Wonder has connotations of curiosity: "this fills me with wonder and I am going to figure it out." I will take wonder over awe every day.

Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long time.

The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?

Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.

The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.

You love her. (Shanus) I barely know her. (Wulf) Time has no meaning to the heart. (Shanus)