Profound Quotes

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.

I have to tell you, though, the sexism in late night talk is so profound.

Ask a scientist a very profound question on his science, and he will be silent. Ask a religious person a very simple question on his religion, and he will be frenzied.

It's like the most profound accomplishment that I've had in my career, that I can finally be that voice.

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

Profound virtue is indeed deep and wide. It leads all things back to the great order.

Did you hear what I said? It was very profound.

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

There’s a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

Yes, we need to change, but simple changes can have profound impacts.

In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.

People change based on what they feel, not what they know. Which means that understanding all that advice doesn't matter if there's no deep, profound, visceral awareness of why it's important.

...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis.

Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.

Your dreams are always going to seem much more profound to you then they are to your friend.

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.

Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are on this right path.

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.

I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.

You're every love song ever written.

One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.

Selfless acts are a source of profound meaning for your self and your life.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

It's phenomenal the kind of support Donald Trump has, despite the best efforts to suppress it, and those efforts are being made, I think it's profound, the number of people.

How one election has exposed the true dire straits of the Democrat Party. It really is profound.

Dept. of Speculation is gorgeous, funny, a profound and profoundly moving work of art. Jenny Offill is a master of form and feeling, and she gets life on the page in new, startling ways.

If you want to learn about America, watch The Wire. Its a profound piece of entertainment.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.