465 Quotes About Profound


  • Author Paul Anka
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    There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.

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  • Author Sherman Alexie
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    When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

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  • Author Woody Allen
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    One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

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  • Author Annie Besant
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    Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

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  • Author Augusten Burroughs
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    My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines.

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  • Author David Brainerd
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    No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

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  • Author Edmund Burke
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    I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

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