Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Freire

Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and its people.

Mariska Hargitay

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

Meghan O'Rourke

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

John Betjeman

Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound

Jim Palmer

I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.

Freya Stark

Few - very few - of our attainments are so profound that they are valid for always; even if they are so, they need adjustment, a straightening here, a loosening there, like an old garment to be fitted to the body ...

Patrick Stewart

Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.

Maggie Siff

For me to get to work with a writer-director over time in developing a project - my investment feels much more profound. I know that whatever is on the other end I'm going to feel that much closer to.

Madame de Stael

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Louis Pasteur

The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between the products born under the influence of life and all the others.

M. Scott Peck

Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.

Matthieu Ricard

Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.

Marilynne Robinson

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

Richard Curtis

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

Rebecca Solnit

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.

Paul McCartney

There is good and bad in everyone.

Pope John Paul II

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.

Pope John Paul II

Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths contained in that vision liberate students in the most profound meaning of human freedom.

Pope Francis

The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human ecology! And it is a serious danger because the cause of the problem is not superficial but profound: it is not just a matter of economics, but of ethics and anthropology.

Pope Francis

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Paulo Coelho

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Vernor Vinge

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

Robert McKee

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

Sarah Dessen

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.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Richard Pryor

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

Richard Rohr

Sacramental listening reminds us that current suffering isn't the end of the story. God loves us deeply, and the vision for the future is vaster and more magnificent than we could ever imagine. In these moments of profound human presence, we are awakened to the divine presence and see that the kingdom of God is coming and yet is already here.

Rufus Wainwright

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.

Will Smith

She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.

Vincent Van Gogh

But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith .

Salvador Dali

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.