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Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that have no answers.
Obviously, I got very lucky that even though I lost my mother, I lost her later in life, but it's still had a profound effect on me.
Changing the world in a profound and beneficial way is not enough to put a dint in bureaucracies which operate on their own dynamics.
There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a profound experience.
During teenager times, the feelings of longing is perhaps at its most strong and profound because everything feels multiplied by ten.
We all have auras. But it's much easier to see the aura of someone who is in a state of samadhi or other profound state of awareness.
He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being
Simple questions can be profound, and answering them requires us to make stark and honest - and sometimes painful - self-assessments.
Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.
That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.
As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
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.
The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.
My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.
The immigrant experience had a profound effect on me. It taught me the importance of hard work and the value of being entrepreneurial.
The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that? Blood is blood? A toaster is a toaster? A Gelatinous Cube is a Gelatinous Cube?
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.
The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.
Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.
My father's favorite poem was probably 'Love is patient, love is kind.' It's simply stated but pretty profound. That's how my dad wrote.
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.
Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.
Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.
... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us.
The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound.
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.
Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.
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.
I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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.
We want to blame people who have brain disorders - they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It's a profound misconception.
The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.
As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.
My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness.
Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow ones own advice.