Profound Realizations Quotes

#1. We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality.

M.R. Mathias

#2. Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

#3. I wasn't sure I would ever be able to deal with the world. It seemed too big and demanding and there was no fixed syllabus.

Jerry Pinto

#4. In the looking, I found the cities within me.

Suketu Mehta

#5. We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

Cleo Moore

#6. I sometimes doubt whether even the friends whose kind thoughts turned downwards me that evening from the distant South and West could realize how cheerful is the recollection of the Christmas spent in the solitude and cold of the desert.

Aurel Stein

#7. The once deep reservoirs filled with our vast emotional understanding have evaporated over the generations and we are now nothing more than a shallow cesspool of impossible expectations

Phillip McCarron

#8. Nothing is more to the point than a good digression.

Ralph Caplan

#9. Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war.

John Milton

#10. The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Bertrand Russell

#11. I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists.

Jennifer Skiff

#12. There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live.

Elizabeth Michels

#14. Not that I know of. He had this idea that it was gone, sort of; not gone gone, but gone into everything, the whole matrix. Like it wasn't in cyberspace anymore, it just was.

William Gibson

#15. Government does create prosperity and growth by creating the conditions that allow both entrepreneurs and their customers to thrive; balancing the power of capitalists like me and workers isn't bad for capitalism - it's essential to it.

Nick Hanauer

#16. Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

Iris Murdoch

#17. My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

Patrice Leconte

#18. Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

Barbara Boxer