A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
~By Saul Bellow ~
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.
~By Myriam Miedzian ~
Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
~By Daniel Johns ~
Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.
~By Holly Hunter ~
Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
~By Brad Henry ~
But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.
~By Julie Taymor ~
O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.
~By Gabriel Byrne ~
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
~By Louis Kronenberger ~
Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
~By Richard E. Byrd ~
I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.
~By Howard Dean ~
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
~By Ira Gershwin ~
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
~By Herman Melville ~
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
~By Vernon Howard ~
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
~By Robert Orben ~
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
~By Andre Malraux ~
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
~By Virgil ~
I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
~By Sam Sheppard ~
During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.
~By Mike Love ~
I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
~By Jet Li ~
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
~By Judith Light ~
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart.
~By Judy Collins ~
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.
~By David Guterson ~
I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
~By J. Carter Brown ~
By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
~By John Pearson ~
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned, as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can, but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.
~By Jeb Bush ~
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.
~By Sharon Olds ~
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
~By Bono ~
Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
~By John Denham ~
Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
~By Julio Cortazar ~
Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.
~By Roger Gould ~
As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?
~By Brian Greene ~
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
~By Bruce Lee ~
I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.
~By Amanda Burton ~
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
~By John McCain ~
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
~By Edith Wharton ~
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
~By Rainer W. Fassbinder ~
Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.
~By Annette Funicello ~
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
~By June Jordan ~
Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.
~By Bill Maher ~
I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn't a bad thing when I look back at it.
~By Caroline Corr ~
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.
~By Joseph Pulitzer ~
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
~By Peter Shaffer ~
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.
~By Byron Nelson ~
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.
~By Graeme Le Saux ~
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Government is operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.
~By Gerry Spence ~
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
~By Kenneth Clark ~
I still think the best metal bands have a blues feel. The first Black Sabbath album is kind of a bludgeoning of blues. Deep Purple also started out as a blues band.
~By Greg Ginn ~
I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.
~By Aime Cesaire ~
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.
~By Don DeLillo ~
But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.
~By Will Wright ~
This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
~By Ian Hislop ~
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
~By Zack de la Rocha ~
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
~By C. S. Forester ~
I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.
~By Phil Simms ~
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.
~By Terri Clark ~
The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
~By Macy Gray ~
THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
~By John Sergeant Wise ~
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
~By Henryk Sienkiewicz ~
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.
~By Emma Bonino ~
My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
~By Rick Wakeman ~
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
~By Niels Bohr ~
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
~By Margaret Walker ~
No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.
~By John T. Flynn ~
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.
~By Jonathan Kozol ~
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
~By John Mellencamp ~
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
~By Thom Gunn ~
The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
~By James Dickey ~
This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
~By Earl Wilson ~
I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.
~By Benjamin Bratt ~
I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
~By Karl Malone ~
I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'
~By Michael Bay ~
People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
~By James Taylor ~
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.
~By Yehudi Menuhin ~
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
~By Steven Morrissey ~
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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