Quotes About Profound

I love everything that Cormac McCarthy has written.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

Everything I do is meaningful.

Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.

I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.

Christianity thus engages in a pragmatic discourse which intends towards the one who lies beyond all language. As such, the language of faith is at its best when it both remembers its profound limitations and simultaneously places us in a clearing within which we can be addressed by God.

In this journey of emotionally healthy spirituality, we are talking about radical change at the core of our being. At least two critical forces hinder such a profound shift. First, the pressure of others to keep us living lives that are not our own is enormous. And second, our own stubborn self-will is much deeper and more insidious than we think.

Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.

I've always had a dislike of any form of didacticism, especially when it becomes the dominant element in writing. Character and emotional content should always be the strong elements. I think that was maybe what went wrong with my early novel, that I wanted it to be too profound, I was trying to put too much into it. I learned fairly early that one can handle only so much idea in a story. Well, or rather, I can!

The permanent establishment of terrestrial life in space is as profound an event as the emergence of life itself.

The remark of Goethe is as profound as it is true: "The conflict of faith and unbelief remains the proper, the only, the deepest theme of the history of the world and mankind, to which all others are subordinated.

Writing is a deeply spiritual act that can have a profound effect upon the practitioner.

There was, when I came to New York in the 1970s, no more profound or moving experience than MoMA, an almost perfect piece of 20th Century modernist expression, existing in an extraordinary balance - modestly, functionally, elegantly - with the extraordinary art it held. This place changed my life. I was transformed by every visit.

I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

The knowledge we gain about the secrets of the spiritual world is at every hour, at every moment, of vital and profound significance for our souls; what seems to be remote from us personally is often what the soul inwardly needs.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

Compared to the big 19th-century novelists, I've got a slim volume of work.

I have always been into reading serious material.

A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it's an inter-species thing. Although if it is I wonder why I never try and be profound around my dog. 'What does electricity taste like?' I ask. 'Like a planet around a star,' Bina48 replies. Which is either extraordinary or meaningless - I'm not sure which

Some master meditators achieve a particularly concentrated state of mind, samadhi, in which their mind is capable of gaining profound insights into reality.

Eso es muy superficial. - No se puede ser profundo sin superficie.

You can't be deep without a surface.

There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof I hope there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either of wit or sublime.

Filosóficamente, la memoria no es menos prodigiosa que la adivinación del futuro; el día de mañana está más cerca de nosotros que la travesía del Mar Rojo por los hebreos, que, sin embargo, recordamos.