Quotes About Profound

The Spanish authorities attributed La Pérouse's opinions to the regrettable fact that the man was French, but his writings made a profound impression on Padre Mendoza.

Hay una maldición china que viene al caso, «le deseo una vida interesante». La bendición correspondiente sería «le deseo una vida banal» —

un ser extraordinariamente pequeño, casi calvo, arrugado y pálido, sin más signo de inteligencia humana que sus negros ojos relucientes, con una sabia expresión de ancianidad desde la cuna.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater: it seems inevitable.

I see my responsibility as to give people something they want to keep turning the pages of and giving people something to chew on, looking at some aspect of human nature that hadn't occurred to them recently.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

The problem with holistic management is it's so profoundly simple, but it's not easy. And it's profoundly simple. You're almost insulting people's intelligence to explain it twice, just about making better decisions of where you want to go in your life, bringing in environmental, social, economic issues simultaneously.

If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.

I'm thinking of doing a marital comedy for one of the studios, but I want it to be so painful that it'll have a profound effect on married couples who see it together.

I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

She knew she should say something profound, something beautiful in response. Instead, she spoke the truth. "If we make it out of here alive, I'm going to kiss you unconscious.

Nothing can resist a person who is nonresistant... When you overcome negative with positive...hate with love... Evil with good. You've turn a loss to a win... You have become profound.

I think the most profound beauty is found in what our hearts love.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Almost anything around us of significance is hard to grasp linguistically.

Empirically, if you want an author to cross a few generations