Profound Quotes

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar.

On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a much more profound way that we all are a global community and we all have to band to try and give the children of our this generation whatever tools we can to go out into this world and try and make it a better place.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.