Depth Quotes - Page 17

We cannot be satisfied with things as they are. We cannot be satisfied to drift, to rest on our oars, to glide over a sea whose depths are shaken by subterranean upheavals.

Depth of feeling and clarity of thought isn’t the same as knowing.

We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!

In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.

When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have a development of their own in accordance with the inherent laws from which they are separately derived. Both, however, aim toward the realization of the same image. And both deal with the depth problem.

I can now see to the bottom of my own depths, there is nothing stopping my gaze, no obstacle is in the way. And there is nothing there.

The depth of my sorrow is the height of my joy.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

No, I think the pitching today has more depth.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied.

I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

There is a sense in which the danger of our lives increases in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ.

Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.