Quotes About Profound

Princess Diana was an icon and her effect on the world remains profound and inspiring. To explore her through Peter Morgan's writing is the most exceptional opportunity and I will strive to do her justice.

Incomprehensible is no better than banal – it's just its flip-side.

He also gives a good picture of the profound chaos unleashed in Muslim countries in 1924 by Ataturk's sudden abolition of the caliphate, an institution they had superficially not taken much notice of but which was central to a Muslim's whole identity.

A good book slowly grabs you by the soul without your knowledge. By the time you're in tears and laughing at the top of your lungs at the same time it's too late. You're hooked.

Det slog hende som noget dybt foruroligende, at der fandtes dobbelt så mange hænder som ansigter i verden.

I knew that these people were not idiots, so the only thing I could attribute their insane response to was a profound lack of courage and intellectual integrity.

BACH! A colossal syllable, one which makes composers tremble, brings performers to their knees, beatifies the Bach-lover, and apparently bores the daylights out of everyone else

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them

In the lives of individuals, just as in society at large, the profoundest changes take place within a very reduced time frame. When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready... The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

There should be a deep attachment, heart should be tied to heart between parent and child, for unless the child learns how to love a parent profoundly, I believe that he will never learn how to love anyone else profoundly, and not knowing how to love means the loss of the meaning of life and its fulfillment.

Art is about profundity. It's about connecting to everything that it means to be alive, but you have to act.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

Dan nodded emphatically, as if his mouth had just uttered, independently, something that his ears found quite profound.

Doch im Augenblick, in dieser Minute, wohnte dem Ort unleugbar eine schlichte, tief sitzende Schönheit inne.

Knowing the truth is fairly useless; feeling it is profound; living it makes all the difference.

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

It's a pivotal, it's a seminal, religious day when you get to both hear and feel your destiny at the same moment.

With purpose to be dressed in an opinion of wisdom gravity profound conceit as who should say 'I am Sir Oracle and when I ope my lips let no dog bark.' 1.1

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. Reading is borrowing!

Aushwitze itself remains explicable. The most profound statement yet made upon Aushwitz was not a statement at all, but a response. The query, 'At Aushwitze, tell me, where was God?' And the answer: 'Where was man?

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much.

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.