Deep Things Quotes:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

- Sue Monk Kidd

topic: Butterfly, Long, Religion, Deep Things, Religion Today

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

- Thomas a Kempis

topic: Men, Sound, Daring, Deep Things, Presuming

We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our ways of life, how separated we are. When we moved out of the cities and we lost all of the memory that was in cities, and we - one of the highest achievements in our culture is to be able to segregate yourself from everyone else, and the deep thing is the deepest punishment is solitary confinement.

- Wynton Marsalis

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Memories, Fighting, Punishment, Solitary Confinement, Deep Things

I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the actual maps. There is just something about the unseen bottom of the sea that has always fascinated me, how deep is it.

- Joan Didion

source: Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

topic: Marine, Sea, Unseen, Tsunami, Deep Things

Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.

- Ann Druyan

topic: Knowing, Profound, Empowerment, Deep Things

Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.

- T. B. Joshua

topic: Edification, Comfort, Sin, Deep Things

If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

topic: Teaching, Views, People, Deep Things

I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Real, People, Stuff, Deep Things

Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.

- Ole Hallesby

topic: Prayer, Grace, Each Day, Deep Things

God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.

- Mike Bickle

topic: Heart, Giving, Hungry, Deep Things

Think how our lives might be different if we became people with whom Christ could share the deep things of God.

- Beth Moore

topic: Thinking, People, Different, Deep Things

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.247

topic: Music, Song, Essence, Hull, Deep Things

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

- Ray LaMontagne

topic: Beautiful, Hurt, Painful, Something Beautiful, Deep Things

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3155, e-artnow

topic: Life, Art, Simple, Deep Things

There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone.

- Samantha Shannon

topic: Nests, Never Forget, Certain, Deep Things

A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Hate, Glasses, Hair, Deep Things, Combs

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

topic: Profound, Found, Deep Things, Profound Truth

Well, it has to do with very deep things, because it might be that imagining yourself as a girl is a diminishment. But it is something that when I made "The Devil Wears Prada" it was the first time in my life, 30 years of making movies, that a man came up and said I know how you felt. I know how you felt. I have a job like that. People understand.

- Meryl Streep

source: "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

topic: Girl, Jobs, Men, Prada, Deep Things