Quotes About Richness

#1. If we fail to recognize there is a unified whole to Scripture, we will have only a pile of pieces. Simplistic slogans, formulas and catchphrases will not suffice in conveying the richness of the Scriptures.

Michael S. Horton

#2. I'm still sad, but you've given my sadness a richness and depth it has never known before.

Don DeLillo

#3. Do not presume that richness or poorness will bring you happiness.

Santosh Kalwar

#4. But during the day ... that was life. The collection of small details that made up a shared day were what gave richness to what happened in the bed at night.

Anne Bishop

#5. I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.

Damon Lindelof

#6. The digital formats keep changing so rapidly. I feel like so many people are shooting digital but the quality is being lost. There's a texture and a richness to the 35 format that's incomparable.

Daryl Wein

#7. We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.

Vishwas Chavan

#8. The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.

Hannah Arendt

#9. The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.

Donald M. MacKinnon

#10. Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Herbert Read

#11. I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Coco Chanel

#12. Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.

John Hickenlooper

#13. The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.

Ram Dass

#14. The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

Austin Farrer

#15. I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#16. Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Stanley Crouch

#17. Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

Michael J. Fox

#18. Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones
There's something in this richness that I hate.
I love the look, austere, immaculate,
Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.

Elinor Wylie

#19. Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

Gene Wolfe

#20. (Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)

William T. Vollmann

#21. If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.

Stephen Jay Gould

#22. When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.

Miriam Adeney

#24. The marvelous richness of human experience would lose
something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to
overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if
there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Helen Keller

#25. Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

Eduardo Galeano

#26. In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.

Christian De Portzamparc

#27. Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the commitment to fill this day with meaningful richness and purposeful effort. This is your day to live, so do so with vigor and enthusiasm.

Ralph Marston

#28. We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre

Steven Biko

#29. Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.

Amartya Sen

#30. I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.

Mary Daly

#31. We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

Albert Einstein

#32. My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

Gabrielle Roy

#33. There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

Paul Gauguin

#34. I want to show the richness of even the most disagreeable bits of life.

Alfonso A. Ossorio

#35. Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#36. When you think about it in the big scheme of things our time together is like a dash of spice in a big cosmic soup - important for richness of flavor but still not quite the main ingredient. The past is over. It can't and shouldn't be reclaimed. All we ever have is now anyway.

Alyson Noel

#37. People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

Daisaku Ikeda

#38. Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character. I could feel how everything pointed toward a clearly defined dance figure. The richness of rhythmic ideas was overwhelming

Mary Wigman

#39. Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

Stephen Jay Gould

#40. Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

Roman Jakobson

#41. There's a reason we seperate Church and State. The reason for the richness and the diversity of religion in this nation is because of the seperation of Church and State, and there are people out there who can't wait to make this nation a nation of one religion ... THEIR religion.

Phil Donahue

#42. Be content with yourself, because inside your being you have all the richness.

Debasish Mridha

#43. You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth.

Mike Carey

#44. And yet there were times when I felt my life full of such richness, such fullness, I couldn't express it, couldn't speak or breathe a word because I feared the disruption
even a single breath could ruin it, like wind over a pond. I didn't want even a ripple.

Lauren Oliver

#45. We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

James Krenov

#46. By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe.

Tayeb Salih

#47. Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Delta Burke

#48. Oh, lovely world,' thought Sarah, in love with life and all its varied richness.

Winifred Holtby

#49. There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.

Lawrence Anthony

#50. Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.

Virginia Woolf

#51. On the front cover of Newsweek reviews "A House for Mr. Biswas" as "a marvelous prose epic that matches the best 19th century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.

V.S. Naipaul

#52. Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

John Szarkowski

#53. Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

Julia Alvarez

#54. Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.

Andrew Solomon

#55. It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!

Susan Wojcicki

#56. The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.

Angelique Kidjo

#57. Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

Terence McKenna

#58. If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

Richard Louv

#59. If you're too judgmental, you shut your self off to so much richness in the world.

Julia Kent

#60. Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

Coco Chanel

#61. I can conceive of 'falling in love' over and over again. But 'marriage,' this richness of life itself, I cannot conceive of having again - or with anyone else. In this sense 'marriage' seems to me indissoluble.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#62. If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude ...

A.E. Housman

#63. The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.

John Lawson

#64. Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.

John McWhorter

#65. I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I outwardly promote, just like I don't outwardly promote that I have green eyes and blonde hair. It's a part of who I am. I love the richness of the culture I grew up within.

Joanna Garcia

#66. Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

Madeleine L'Engle

#67. Show business imposes its own strict temporality: no matter how many CDs or DVDs we own, it would still have been better to have been there, to have seen the living performers in the richness of their being and to have participated, however briefly, in the glory of their performance.

Larry McMurtry

#68. Every future turns into the past. The richness of your past dictates what you are today. It's not your decision what you are today, but what you will be tomorrow. This is where a part of your decision comes into play.

Ruben Papian

#69. When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of which all the scriptures speak.

Diadochos Of Photiki

#70. The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

Fernando Botero

#71. I don't want to talk to anyone, lest I squander your words' echo, which ripples like a shine over mine and lends their sound a richness.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#72. All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.

Rebecca West

#73. I feel this evening that I am too hopelessly and happily corrupted by the richness of London life to ever be right for Dorset, or vice-versa.

Michael Palin

#74. The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.

Edward Sapir

#75. After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.

Charles Nodier

#76. Richness does not exist in being wealthy, richness exists in having abundance in life.

Debasish Mridha

#77. In The Earthwise Herbal, Matthew Wood has revived the richness, depth, and dignity of the herbal medicine of the old masters, while at the same time endowing it with a new cosmopolitan, cross-cultural flavor that lifts it to a genuinely planetary level.

Rudolph Ballentine

#78. The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

Franz Kafka

#79. The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary ...

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#80. Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.

Mark Rubinstein

#81. It seldom seems to strike the ultra-Darwinists that theology might have its own richness and subtleties, and might strange thought actually tell us things about the world that are not only to our real advantage, but will never be revealed by science.

Simon Conway Morris

#82. It is a great art to have an abundance of knowledge and experience - to know the richness of life, the beauty of existence, the struggles, the miseries, the laughter, the tears - and yet keep your mind very simple; and you can have a simple mind only when you know how to love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#83. Music is like the genius of humankind, universal ... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.

Flea

#84. When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

John F. Kennedy

#85. What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates the body of Christ?

Geoffrey W Bromiley

#86. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

Paul Cezanne

#87. Just because you love something doesn't mean it has to consume your days. It can just add richness and texture to your life.

Lea Michele

#88. Pope John Paul II once said as well, "Lebanon is a message more than it is a country." Now this diversity has turned into fragmentation and the richness into poverty, awaiting a miraculous remedy.

Rami Ollaik

#89. It may be said that it is with our thoughts as with our flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.

Joseph Joubert

#90. The richness of our contemporary visual world must be seen as a danger. It is an overwhelming and oppressive world. A world that manifests itself fundamentally through the image is only a few steps from totalitarian manipulation.

Edmundo Desnoes

#91. Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though communing with one languishing in prison; they sang of the variety and richness of life, of man's audacity in his strivings towards goodness and beauty.

Maxim Gorky

#92. It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.

Ben Foster

#93. At some point, when we have been blessed with profoundly moving, touching and special moments, it is important to stop questioning and to begin accepting the gift of the experience. Such moments add only richness and great joy to this journey called life.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#94. The sage gives more than he takes;
how can he do this?
because he has the richness of Tao

Lao-Tzu

#95. The richness of our ethnic insults vocabulary was wide and deep. It reflected, all too easily, the more elaborate predjiduces of our parents (not my parents), which in their rabid form, had already resulted in tribal bloodbaths.

Andrei Codrescu

#96. Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

Pat Conroy

#97. Richness and fat does need,
In logic clever fine deeds,
But paunches never do breed,
Fine thoughts or sublime seeds.
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Munindra Misra

#98. The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.

Ram Dass

#99. I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

Joshua Waitzkin

#100. Life is an extraordinary gift some people appear not to appreciate. In every breath and scent, every touch and sight we are gifted by new experience and the chance to feel the richness of experience. Every sound we hear, from the song of a bird to the harshness of an angry voice, is a miracle.

Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum