Quotes About Profound

God has delegated to us--to all of us--a profound responsibility for what is happening all around us and for the care and wise stewardship of all creation.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.

Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange, Stranger than Fiction

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark. You should look behind you, Lord Snow. The moon has kissed you and etched your shadow upon the ice twenty feet tall.

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

But thoughts which have stirred our hearts too deeply are always in some way troubled and confused.

Mystery is not profoundness.

Silence is deep as Eternity; speech, shallow as Time.

Still waters run deep.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

To be simple is to be great.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

Some words are like the old Roman galleys; large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

The brain has a way of confirming its own hypotheses. It's how we function in our world. That which fits within our definition and perspective of our existence is retained, if not amplified. That which does not is either rationalized or cast aside until an event so great or profound occurs that we must rethink everything.

All artists bear the imprint of their time, but the great artists are those in whom this is most profoundly marked

People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

We are certain that Ukraine needs profound constitutional reform. In all fairness, we can't see any other way to ensure the stable development of Ukraine but to sign a federal agreement.

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.