Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Michel de Montaigne

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Paulo Freire

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

Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.

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 ...

Oliver Sacks

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

Eric S. Raymond

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

Emily Dickinson

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

Jonathan Swift

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

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.

Renata Adler

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

Renata Adler

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time.

Timothy Spall

Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.

Timothy Spall

You can't live your life in a state of profundity, because you're never going to get anything done, and you're just profound.

Sam Harris

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. … On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

Marco Rubio

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

Liam Neeson

You just get this profound feeling of instability . . . the Earth isn't stable anymore and then it passes and it becomes more infrequent, but I still get it sometimes.

Simone de Beauvoir

Buying is profound pleasure.

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.

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.

Henri Nouwen

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

Hod Lipson

When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.