Top 100 Profoundly Quotes
#1. To laugh is to live profoundly ... The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness, that delectable trance of happiness, that ultimate peak of delight. Laughter of delight, delight of laughter ... it is an expression of being rejoicing at being ...
Milan Kundera
#2. I regard myself as a religious ... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#3. I never expected anyone in my family to change, and especially not my father, who changed first and most profoundly: He died.
Melissa Bank
#6. The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
Dallas Willard
#7. Roget looked so profoundly timid. What is it like, working for a well-dressed lunatic who pays you triple what anyone else would pay to forget your better judgment?
Anne Rice
#8. Because in that moment, watching and listening, he was profoundly moved that God had seen fit to gift him, an ordinary man, an Indiana boy through and through, with these people in his life.
Kristen Ashley
#9. The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.
Jackson Katz
#10. As Rachel Carson once observed, referring to a very different but at the same time profoundly similar problem: "Time is the essential ingredient, but in the modern world there is no time.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#11. Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
Ana Castillo
#12. It is the - actually profoundly unartistic - impulse to produce exterior likeness rather than inner truth: the same impulse as naturalistic photograpy and the copy.
Joseph Roth
#13. Between what human beings so naively and stupidly fear and what they most profoundly ought to fear-i.e. what they so pathogenically and addictively do to their own selves-there is a horrendous gulf and disparity.
Kenny Smith
#14. To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother.
Debasish Mridha
#15. The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
Cormac McCarthy
#16. God is not here to be demanded of, begged from, or criticized. He hands out burdens to those who are strong enough to carry them, and I feel profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of lining up with the other invalids and asking for mine to be alleviated.
Ann Napolitano
#17. Thank you for being open to another more workable draft of me. It affected me profoundly.
Mary-Louise Parker
#18. If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him known and loved by many of your friends and contemporaries.
Pope Benedict XVI
#19. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep profoundly.
Victor Hugo
#20. The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days ... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
Simone De Beauvoir
#21. You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity
Christopher Nolan
#22. Sometimes you panic and find yourself emitting remarks so profoundly inane that you would be embarrassed to say them to your dog. Your dog would look at you and think to itself, 'I may lick myself in public, but I'd never say anything as stupid as that.'
Dave Barry
#23. The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
Che Guevara
#24. No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Andre Maurois
#25. Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy ...
Isabel Allende
#26. We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.
Akhil Sharma
#28. Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.
Gordon Dahlquist
#29. It is the central irony of my life that when I want something and end up getting it, it makes me profoundly uncomfortable.
Jennifer Armintrout
#30. Seven Ways to Live Your Life:
Love unconditionally
Forgive kindly
Live profoundly
Give joyfully
Think carefully
Hug compassionately
Inspire passionately
Debasish Mridha
#31. I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
Andrew Solomon
#32. America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.
James Frey
#33. It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?
Northrop Frye
#34. For a time after my divorce everything began to seem profoundly ironic to
me. I found myself thinking of other peoples' worries as sources of amusement and private derision which I thought about at night to
make myself feel better.
Richard Ford
#35. A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance.
Theodore Roosevelt
#36. So what is your star sign?' Said Mary Ellen 'Cunnilingus' Katz answered looking profoundly unhappy.
Bill Bryson
#37. He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.
Michael Chabon
#38. You are what you are most profoundly thankful for, and what you love.
Ralph Marston
#39. I believe that when people view the end of their life as a short time left to live and no time to waste, they open up their hearts more profoundly, knowing they have less, not more, time to live.
Linda Noble Topf
#40. Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to pay.
Emile Zola
#41. The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.
Scott Stapp
#42. Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.
Paul Nurse
#43. For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.
Carol S. Dweck
#44. I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#45. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
David Byrne
#46. The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.
Neil Cross
#47. I feel strongly that from my being a little lost boy with no family to becoming a man with two, everything was meant to happen just the way it happened. And I am profoundly humbled by that thought.
Saroo Brierley
#48. To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. Jesus revealed a face of God that bothered society profoundly! (Carlos Mesters, p. 122)
Mev Puleo
#50. Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled. Family breakdown accelerated. Median household income stagnated.
Nicholas Kristof
#51. I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring ... The more boring the better.
Evan Davis
#52. They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another
F Scott Fitzgerald
#53. We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them.
Dion Fortune
#54. I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.
Marian Wright Edelman
#55. I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.
Woody Allen
#56. Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.
Beah Richards
#57. Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
Brooks Atkinson
#58. The field of quantum possibility, in which love has opened doors otherwise unimaginable, is our soul's true habitat. The world of fear and limitation is not our home, and who among us is not profoundly weary of hanging out where we do not belong.
Marianne Williamson
#59. The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us, and which touches us so profoundly, that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent as to knowing what it is.
Blaise Pascal
#60. all started at the Temple of Apollo In Delphi. One of his friends approached the oracle with the question: "Is anyone wiser than Socrates?" the answer was "No." Socrates was profoundly puzzled by this episode. He claimed to know
Plato
#61. My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.
Kim Elizabeth
#62. To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.
John Lancaster Spalding
#63. Quite a number of people are able to feel the beauty of the world profoundly and vastly, and to carry high, noble images in their souls, but they are unable to exteriorize these images, to create them for the enjoyment of others, to communicate them.
Hermann Hesse
#64. This is a profoundly universal laughter, a laughter that contains a whole outlook on the world.
Mikhail Bakhtin
#65. The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.
Paul Raskin
#66. The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
Edward Tufte
#67. When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to myself, 'Wow, only God knew before.' It is a profoundly beautiful and moving sensation, which helps me appreciate God and makes science even more rewarding for me.
Francis Collins
#68. The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.
Rebecca Solnit
#69. Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
Tavis Smiley
#70. A dramatic public display, Kay. The dam began to crumble with Columbine. It's not new, just the classification is. People have become addicted to attention, to fame. Profoundly disturbed individuals will kill and die for it.
Patricia Cornwell
#71. As we have seen from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's example, even one justice can profoundly alter the meaning of those words for our citizens. Even one justice can deeply affect the rights and liberties of the American people.
Edward Kennedy
#72. An honest politician has no goodies to toss around. This limits his effectiveness profoundly, because political power in India is dispersed throughout a multi-tiered federal structure; a local official who has not been paid off can sometimes stop a billion-dollar project.
Aravind Adiga
#73. No generation before us has faced a decade of choices that will so profoundly impact the course of life on this planet as those we now face. And no generation before us has had the opportunity to enrich the future so vastly.
Eban Goodstein
#74. The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential
Maria Montessori
#75. It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.
Lewis Thomas
#76. One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic than the murder done.
Mary MacLane
#77. He captured my heart so profoundly, I couldn't even write the words to say.
Nikki Rowe
#78. I profoundly believe in - and teach - the proposition that photography is inherently a fiction-making process. Don't speak to me of the document; I don't really believe in it particularly now. A picture is not the world, but a new thing.
Tod Papageorge
#79. As a profoundly deaf woman, my experiences have shown me that the impossible is indeed possible!
Heather Whitestone
#80. Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
Karen Armstrong
#81. Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.
Stanley Hoffmann
#82. Nothing expresses Kafka's innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of "writing as a form of prayer": he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life.
Ernst Pawel
#83. See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
Orson Welles
#84. In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.
Jack Abramoff
#85. We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.
Norman Vincent Peale
#86. Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.
Phil Cousineau
#87. Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving.
Janette Turner Hospital
#88. Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
Alastair Campbell
#89. It felt ancient. Knowing. Utterly and profoundly indifferent to me.
Cheryl Strayed
#90. The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
Stendhal
#91. I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas Adams
#93. Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
Leroy Hood
#94. Thought
Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness;
As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly
affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those who
do not believe in men.
Walt Whitman
#95. No matter; God wants Man, whom he has created and in whose heart he has so profoundly entrenched a love for life, to do all he can to preserve an existence that is sometimes so painful, but always so dear to him.
Alexandre Dumas
#96. The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill cost you dear before he's understood.
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
#97. Loony hillbillies destabilized by gross quantities of impure corn liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical sex;
Bill Bryson
#98. I was profoundly embarrassed by it (the White Australia Policy) and did all I could to change it.
Gough Whitlam
#99. The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good ... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.
Emily Martin
#100. To me, the rainbow was a profoundly hopeful symbol, separating the the white light of appearances into its multiple spectrum and revealing a hidden dimension. It reminded me of my belief that it was the mission of science to pierce through the layers of everyday reality and penetrate to the truth.
Candace B. Pert
