#profound

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #profound




I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#cultural #i #inner #instinctive #linked

The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.


Walter Kaufmann


#because #believes #bible #buddha #god

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.


Emma Thompson


#energy #enjoyable #ever #give #home

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.


Arnold J. Toynbee


#ambitious #beyond #goal #important #itself

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." -


Deb Caletti


#profound #relationships #death

I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.


Christopher Lee


#always #am #debt #face #gave

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 M. Nixon


#direction #had #influence #justices #lasting

...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears--would you agree to be the architect on such conditions?


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#means-justifying-the-ends #profound #religion #sublime #imagination

All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.


Landon Parham


#hope #inspirational #life #profound #sorrow

There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly grateful for the opportunity to live in Hawaii, and I set out at once to try to fit in.


Neil Abercrombie


#felt #fit #grateful #hawaii #here