Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
~By Thomas Merton ~
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
~By Kate Chopin ~
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
~By Annie Lennox ~
At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation.
~By Li Peng ~
I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is.
~By John Mellencamp ~
I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
~By Ava Gardner ~
It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
~By Arthur Eddington ~
Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
~By Steve Earle ~
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of mass destruction, the tax cuts that are now leading to deficits, I've got some deep issues with the president.
~By Lincoln Chafee ~
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
~By John Buchan ~
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
~By Albert Ellis ~
People living deeply have no fear of death.
~By Anais Nin ~
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
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 ~
Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.
~By Neil Jordan ~
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society.
~By Judith Light ~
After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
~By Alan Alda ~
If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.
~By Herb Alpert ~
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
~By Sylvia Plath ~
Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.
~By Sonia Gandhi ~
The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking.
~By Alcee Hastings ~
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
~By Ansel Adams ~
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
~By Joanna Newsom ~
I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.
~By John Doolittle ~
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
~By Edward Witten ~
Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
~By Saint Patrick ~
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.
~By Toshihiko Fukui ~
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
A person who cares deeply about what people need in their lives is someone I'll never forget.
~By Kent McCord ~
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
~By Albert Finney ~
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 ~
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.
~By Judy Chicago ~
And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.
~By Etta James ~
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
~By George Santayana ~
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
~By Edward Tufte ~
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
~By Alan Cohen ~
First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.
~By Brent Scowcroft ~
For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.
~By Dave Sim ~
As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
~By Judith Wright ~
Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
~By Jung Chang ~
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 ~
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
~By Barney Frank ~
There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.
~By John McEnroe ~
I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.
~By Larry Norman ~
Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.
~By James Caan ~
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
~By John Owen ~
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 ~
I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.
~By Max Muller ~
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.
~By Audrey Meadows ~
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
~By Henrik Ibsen ~
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.
~By Amar Bose ~
That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.
~By Hirohito ~
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 ~
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
~By Alan Paton ~
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
~By Dolly Parton ~
Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
~By Virgil ~
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
~By Katharine Butler Hathaway ~
There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
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 ~
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
~By Yoko Ono ~
I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.
~By Geri Halliwell ~
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
~By V. S. Naipaul ~
When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.
~By Judith Wright ~
I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there emotionally. I did not know as an actress if I would be able to get there, because when you feel really deep emotions or pain, you don't want to go back there.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
~By Earl Hines ~
Our ties are deep and long-standing. We are dependent on each other. And no matter what the issue of the day, whether it be softwood lumber, whether it be a war in Iraq, we need to continue to work together.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.
~By Thomas Wilson ~
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
~By Richard Savage ~
Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
~By Franz Grillparzer ~
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
~By Anais Nin ~
Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.
~By Naomi Watts ~
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