Depth Quotes - page 4

Independent of biological need fulfillment and the reproductive needs of the species, cultures] satisfy not bodily needs, but values. Values define cultural man's need for rationality, meaningfulness in emotional experience, richness of imagination, and depth of faith. All cultures respond to such supra-biological values. But in what form they do so depends on the specific kind of values people happen to have. (Ervin László)
Wonderful is the depth of Thy oracles, whose surface is before us, inviting the little ones; and yet wonderful is the depth, O my God, wonderful is the depth. It is awe to look into it; and awe of honour, and a tremor of love. The enemies thereof I hate vehemently. Oh, if Thou wouldest slay them with Thy two-edged sword, that they be not its enemies! For thus do I love, that they should be slain unto themselves that they may live unto Thee. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Beloved, we need much care, much watchfulness, to be able to look into the depth of the Divine Scriptures. For it is not possible to discover their meaning in a careless way, or while we are asleep, but there needs close search, and there needs earnest prayer, that we may be enabled to see some little way into the secrets of the divine oracles. View quote
John Chrysostom
People who look down from some high peak on a vast sea below, probably feel what my mind has felt, looking out from the sublime words of the Lord as from a mountain-top at the inexhaustible depth of their meaning. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
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. View quote
A. E. Waite
To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles. View quote
Paul J. H. Schoemaker
the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility. View quote
Frank Peretti
Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide. View quote
Arkady Volozh
Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface. View quote
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth. (Deb Caletti)
I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there. View quote
Jen Lancaster
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth. View quote
Evangeline Lilly
My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience. View quote
Karen Kingston
He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation. View quote
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. View quote
Julien Green
The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men. View quote
Maureen O'Hara
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community. View quote
Bob Brown
If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth. View quote
Brittany Daniel
I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun. View quote
Christian Cooke
But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't. (Dabney Coleman)
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great. View quote
Edgar Quinet
The executive moves we are announcing today will strengthen American for the long-term future and reflect well on the depth of the Company's management team. View quote
Gerard Arpey
People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. View quote
Hal Sparks
Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them. View quote
Haley Reinhart