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Getting married has shifted my focus, in such a profound way. You just realize, "Oh, I can't be so selfish anymore. There's someone else."
True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
Netanyahu's raison d'etre is to save Israel from Iran. That is it. That is his mission in the most profound sense. I have seen it up close.
... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
The idea that popular arts were shallow by definition and the traditional arts were profound was dead, I thought, and I wanted to prove it.
We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.
The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.
'World On Fire' isn't necessarily a profound statement about where we are as a planet. It's about living life to the fullest... carpe diem.
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.
I prefer my partner to have profound, deep intellect, a profound education, but where their education comes from is no preference of my own.
Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies.
Yet sometimes, when the secret cup Of still and serious thought went round, It seemed as if he drank it up, He felt with spirit so profound.
What a profound privilege to go from one who took the oath from a judge to one who now is in the position to administer the oath as a judge.
There is a profound gap between meeting a person and knowing a person, and that holds true for the difference between visiting and residing.
I became a conservative after a deeply profound spiritual awakening at which point I repented of my anger, and God allowed me to see reality.
My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.
The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.
America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.
I started John W. Henry & Company because I enjoyed applying mathematics to markets, and it was a profound challenge that resonated within me.
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.
The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.
My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.
My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.
The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.
While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.
'Empire of the Sun' is one of the films that I often think about. I think it had a profound effect on me when I first watched it as a teenager.
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.
Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.
The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.
Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.
Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
The turmoil that my dad went through, and then by extension, the kids went though, was profound and disastrous for the marriage, for the family.
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.
There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.
I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.
It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.
How you end something as profound and important as a marriage is a reflection of how you live your life--financially, emotionally, and spiritually.