Quotes About Profound

The problem is that we view estimates in different ways. Business likes to view estimates as commitments. Developers like to view estimates as guesses. The difference is profound.

comes into the world proclaiming the need for and possibility of profound change.

He angrily rejected a disparaging remark about the literary quality of Chernyshevsky's work, and confessed that it had influenced him profoundly, particularly when he reread it after his brother's execution: "It captivated my brother, and it captivated me. It made me over completely. . . .

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much

All his depths were on the surface.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact with him, turned into a deep moral shock.

I love a book that makes me cry.

This is no common day, Mrs. Dr. dear, she said solemnly. Oh, Susan, there is no such thing as a common day. EVERY day has something about it no other day has. Haven't you noticed?

So said Mrs. Rachel to the wild rose bushes out of the fullness of her heart; but if she could have seen the child who was waiting patiently at the Bright River station at that very moment her pity would have been still deeper and more profound.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

It is not the contented or the glowing who have left many of the profound testimonies of what it means to be alive. It seems that such knowledge has usually been the privileged preserve of, and the only blessing granted to, the violently miserable.

The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones. The sun

while most readers recognize the profound wisdom imbued in Tao Te Ching, the language remains mysterious to many. Utter simplicity can seem confusing to the complicated mind.

Myths may not satisfy the demands of rationality or science, but they contain profound wisdom - provided one believes they do and is willing to find out what they communicate.

To those who recognize in Jesus the wonder of the Son of God, every one of his words and deeds becomes a wonder; they find in him the last, most profound, most helpful counsel for all needs and questions. Yes, before the child can open his lips, he is full of wonder and full of counsel. Go to the child in the manger. Believe him to be the Son of God, and you will find in him wonder upon wonder, counsel upon counsel.

Ho detto il Natale più bello che ricordo. Perché bello non significa soltanto bello ma può significare anche terribile e profondo. Anzi. Le più grandi bellezze, in questo mondo, forse stanno proprio qui. Nel dolore, nel rimpianto di ciò che è stato e non sarà più, nella nostra solitudine, della quale noi in genere non ci accorgiamo, o preferiamo non pensarci. Ma verrà il giorno.

It's easy being outrageous. Much harder to offer real meaning.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say