Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

David Kim

If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.

Janna Levin

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

Edmund Burke

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.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.

Barbara Kruger

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Catherynne M. Valente

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

Steve Crump

What he was saying was utterly profound in some regards.

Blythe Danner

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

Charles de Lint

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Janice Dickinson

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

Britney Spears

The best thing about being cheated on is I get to go on more first dates.

Barbara Kingsolver

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

Jane Hirshfield

A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.

Carl Jung

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

Brent Weeks

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.

Bill Nye

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

Bruce Lee

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

Dalai Lama

The meaning of life is happiness.

Dalai Lama

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

Don DeLillo

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Albert Camus

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.