Quotes and Sayings About Depth
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Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.
-- A. E. Waite -
Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.
-- Adam Savage -
The proof of the depth and embodiment of your realization will be seen in your love relationship. That's where the proof is in the pudding. If it all collapses in your relationship, you have some work to do. And people do have a lot of difficulties in their relationships.
-- Adyashanti -
A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
-- Aga Khan IV -
That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.
-- Al Yankovic -
Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. (...) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.
-- Alan Ryan -
Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.
-- Ali Smith -
Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth.
-- Amit Abraham -
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
-- Amy Bloom -
Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.
-- Amy Ray -
Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were doing was establishing well-known truths.
-- Anatoly Karpov -
Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels,
-- Anderson Cooper -
Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.
-- Andreas Feininger -
Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths
-- Andrew Harvey -
There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.
-- Ann Rinaldi -
The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths...
-- Anne Desclos -
The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away.
-- Anne Lamott -
For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?
-- Anne Rice -
I can't eat. I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair.
-- Anne Shirley -
Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is why if, like me, you want to see an end to poverty, you need to be in it for the long haul.
-- Annie Lennox -
If you expect the worst from a person, you can't ever be disappointed... The pessimist takes a sort of gloomy pleasure in observing the depths to which human behaviour can sink. Everyone likes to have his deepest convictions confirmed; that is one of the most abiding of human satisfaction.
-- Anthony Burgess -
A multitude of souls fall into the depths of Hell, and it is of the faith that all who die in mortal sin are condemned for ever and ever. According to statistics, approximately 80,000 persons die every day. How many of these will die in mortal sin, and how many will be condemned! For, as their lives have been, so also will be their end.
-- Anthony Mary Claret -
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
-- Ariel Gore -
The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes
-- Art Linkletter -
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
-- Arthur Hertzberg
