The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
I’ll put ‘Stranger Things’ up there with the best of it. I think it’s such a profound show – it’s very subtle in the way that it tells its story, but it’s very effective. Every time I watch it, I feel something, which is very rare for me.
Shows like ‘Empire’… one of the most profound powerful things is that there’s a gay male character who is loved. That character is going to save a lot of people’s lives. Black families are confronting the idea that a gay black character can be human.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men’s heads.
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than they once were.
I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he’s had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.
The ordinance of confirming a new member of the Church and bestowing the gift of the Holy Ghost is both simple and profound.
‘Rocky’ is an incredibly human story, and ‘Creed’ is very inspired by the Rocky lore, but there’s something kind of profound in letting it all go. This is the first time I’m co-writing, and I’m learning as I go. This process is so different from ‘Fruitvale’; hopefully it gets made.
That openness to experimentation in Seattle is how I learned a drag queen doesn’t have to just be in her pageant gear and lip syncing to top 40. Drag can be off-the-wall, ridiculous, profound.
My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.
We seriously irritate each other and don’t want to spend any time together. And yet we have a profound respect for the partnership. We’re like a couple of dogs with a rag.
About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I’m no longer somebody’s daughter.
Like many astronomers who use the great telescopes on Mauna Kea, I have participated personally and joyfully in ceremonies to celebrate the profound cosmic understanding that comes from joining ancient Hawaiian navigator traditions with the techniques of modern astronomy.
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
Facing ultimate destruction and the end of the world, human society will undergo extreme, complex, and profound transformations.
Economists agree about economics – and that’s a science – and they disagree about economic policy because that’s a value judgment… I’ve had profound disagreements on policy with the famous Milton Friedman. But, on economics, we agree.
The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.
Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest – and sometimes painful – self-assessments.
Teaching children to eat foods that will enhance their health, and offering them high-quality vegetables, fruits and whole grains in school lunches, have a profound effect on our children’s futures.
I speak often about my personal experiences with malaria in the field as a young public health officer because it had such a profound impact on my life and my work.
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
I spent three and a half years writing the novel ‘Chang & Eng,’ about the conjoined brothers for whom the term ‘Siamese twins’ was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.
For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It’s a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.
To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.
Bambi has a profound effect on children because it’s about losing your mother.
That the primary effect of gene mutation may be as simple as the substitution of a single amino acid by another and may lead to profound secondary changes in protein structure and properties has recently been strongly indicated by the work of Ingram on hemoglobin.
Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
I assumed ‘Freak the Mighty’ was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.
I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.
I’m not a good musician, but I did my homework and I knew this was my way out of profound poverty.
There’s no question that the Internet generally, and Netflix specifically, upended the traditional content-distribution supply chain and caused profound changes in the entertainment industry.
It’s a profound privilege to die from stress related diseases. It is the elimination of other causes of death such as infectious disease which is responsible for bringing lifestyle diseases to the fore – and these are exquisitely sensitive to stress.
I think everybody knows they have to be vigilant with their children. I don’t have anything profound to say on that subject. We all know that we have to watch the children. The question is when does it become absolute paranoia?
I’m happy, I would say that I’m one of the happiest people I know but I’ve certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can’t do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
‘Climb Every Mountain’ is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think ‘The Sound of Music’ is saccharine, but I think it’s profound. The message, that we can’t accommodate evil, is just as important today.
You cannot do anything without God. It’s a profound and elemental truth. Not, you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want, truly, in fulfillment, without God.
I had never really thought of myself as a baby person, but it’s just a really profound connection.
Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.
It’s a cliche to say this now, but to me, ‘The Sopranos’ is like Dickens. It’s able to take this very focused look at something but make it epic and profound.
My father’s mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental impact was education.
Part of the reason I moved from law to politics was an increasingly profound belief that how we rebuild after the 2008 crash is going to define us for a generation.
You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it’s a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people’s lives without having a title in front of your name.
I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
Without question, intelligent technologies will continue to disrupt the world as we know it. There will be profound implications, both positive and negative.
It’s all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It’s like you’ve met your reason to live.
Both offensively and defensively, the presence that I have is pretty profound.
People don’t even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way.
There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people’s lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces.
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
