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Penetrate her mind to give birth to her soul -- Habeeb Akande
The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans. -- Idries Shah
Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans. -- Mahmud Shabistari
Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history. -- Pete Seeger
Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul. -- Amit Ray
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. -- Thomas Paine
No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always. -- Ray Davies
Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world. -- Toru Takemitsu
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. -- Ivan Pavlov
I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'. -- Chris Paul
Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle. -- Theodore Zeldin
And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world. -- Taylor Hackford
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. -- Saint Ignatius
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. -- Julien Green
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. -- Leonhard Euler
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. -- Isaac Watts
What in life can love not penetrate? -- Mitch Albom
Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now. -- Tom Brokaw
Poison cannot penetrate the hand that is free of wounds. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
The more you approach infinity, the deeper you penetrate terror -- Gustave Flaubert
Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way. -- Milton Glaser
Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life. -- Stephen Greenblatt
Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs. -- Jesse Jackson
I prefer being penetrated by iron to seeing Palestine is loose. -- Theodor Herzl
Twenty talks, hundred thoughts, deep into the soul Another soul penetrates. -- Upasana Banerjee
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge. -- Friedrich Schiller
As rain pours through poorly thatched houses, so does desire penetrate an undeveloped mind. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance. -- Boy George
Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed. -- Lincoln Child
Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin. -- Ron White
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. -- Thomas Jefferson
Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it. -- Vladimir Kramnik
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief. -- Leo Burnett
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet. -- Peter Diamandis
See with your soul and not your eyesbecause to dance with the beasts youmust penetrate their disguise. -- P. C. Cast
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil. -- Benjamin Disraeli
...the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind. -- Victor Hugo
It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country. -- William Henry Ashley
Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. -- Peggy Noonan
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. -- Will Durant
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. -- Maya Angelou
I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world. -- Nhat Hanh
Eyes darker than a midnight lake penetrate my thoughts with their intensity, and a big hand warmly covers mine -- Poppet
With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel. -- Thomas Kinkade
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
This pure little drop from a pure little source was too sweet: it penetrated deep, and subdued the heart -- Charlotte Bronte
Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness. -- Laozi
That man penetrated me with his shame. Shame, I realize now, is an infectious disease. Shame can be sexually transmitted. (107) -- Jessica Stern
Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn't penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart. -- J.E.B. Spredemann
In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized. -- Liu Xiaobo
Only by investing and speaking yourvision with passion can the truth, oneway or the other, finally penetrate thereluctance of the world. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. -- Emile M. Cioran
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. -- Robert Coover
It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth. -- Paul Klee
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. -- Thomas Beecham
Including a mention of your impressive record....The man who had penetrated and copied over a thousand techniques.. Kakashi the mirror ninja. -- Masashi Kishimoto
Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring. -- T.F. Hodge
It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. -- E. M. Forster
Shining with craving, his emerald gaze penetrated her soulI desire you so much. His whisper melted her heart. His soft touch set her ablaze. -- Chris Lange
They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within. -- Virginia Woolf
They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air. -- Joshua Ferris
The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
Your anger and emotional outbursts usually result when someone penetrates to the core of what you do not like about yourself or still cannot accept. -- Bill George Peter Sims
Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets. -- Jules Verne
Damn her he said to himself. What good does it do my risking my life? She doesn't care whether we own an ostrich or not. Nothing penetrates. -- Philip K. Dick
Detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it. -- Mitch Albom
I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland. -- Jim Ramstad
When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because moon atoms penetrate my eye. -- Jostein Gaarder
If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul. -- Marcel Proust
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. -- Yehudi Menuhin
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world. -- Gerard De Nerval
The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been. -- Richard Jefferies
Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs. -- Charles Bass
Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient's mind, awaiting his awakening. -- Vironika Tugaleva
The political writer, then is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives. -- Cherríe L. Moraga Gloria Anzaldua
We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance. -- Max Born
For whence had that former sorrow so easily penetrated to the quick, but that I had poured out my soul upon the dust, in loving one who must die? -- Augustine of Hippo
I do think everyone would be a lot happier if we laid eggs on our own and could just have friendship and didn't need to mount and penetrate one another. -- Jonathan Ames
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant. -- Kate Chopin
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being. -- Carl Jung
It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds. -- Saint Augustine
Like those imperceptible insects which, having once penetrated the root of a tree devour it in a single night, suspicion, when it invades our minds, soon develops itself and destroys our firmest beliefs. -- Émile Gaboriau
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached. -- Kate Chopin
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image. -- Michelangelo
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Scripture does what psychoanalysis can't do-it pierces the heart, penetrates deep into the soul and judges the motives. To see yourself in the light of Scripture, is to see yourself as you really are. -- John F. MacArthur Jr.
Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him onward, and that a supernatural power had obstructed his retreat. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. -- Walter Pater
Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles. -- Rose George
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering. -- William Nicholson
Between me and you barriers abide and irresistible truths;how can I come out if not become the light that penetrates matter?In the shadows nothing exists except a burning flame to flow in the dreams. -- Katerina Kostaki
Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar. -- Criss Jami
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps. -- Billy Collins
William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce. -- William Carey
Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today. -- Amaka Imani Nkosazana
To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates even over my despair, and will reconcile me to the most hideous aspect of death. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. -- T. S. Eliot
Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time. -- Edward T. Hall
Nothing now divides you and me except a few outworn theological technicalities with which organised religion has unhappily allowed itself to get incrusted. But I have penetrated that crust. The Meaning beneath it is as true and living as ever. -- C. S. Lewis
When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded. -- Charlaine Harris
I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street. -- Max Muller
It says that Moon Child's power ends here. She is the only one who can never set foot in this place. She cannot penetrate to the center of A U R Y N, because she cannot cast off her own self. -- Michael Ende
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart. -- John Calvin
In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn? -- Oscar Wilde
The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet. -- Walter Reisch
Just because death would eventually separate us, that didn't mean it would destroy what we had. I am forever yours, in this life or the next. Some things could penetrate even the formidable barrier of death, and love was one of them. -- Jeaniene Frost
I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media. -- John le Carre
Christian turned around and penetrated Slater with his obsidian eyesBetter talk or I'll introduce you to my two best friends, he said harshly, holding up his fistsMeet thunder and lightning. If you don't start talking, it's going to storm all over your face. -- Dannika Dark
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You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket. -- Bill Cartwright
If we rebuke our heart by a calm, mild remonstrance, with more compassion for it than passion against it and encourage it to make amendment, then repentance conceived in this way will sink far deeper and penetrate more effectually than fretful, angry, stormy repentance. -- Francis De Sale
It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source. -- Frederick Soddy
Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking. -- W. G. Sebald
Cold has a thousand ways of moving in the world: on the sea it gallops like a troop of horses, on the countryside it falls like a swarm of locusts, in the cities like a knife-blade it slashes the streets and penetrates the chinks of unheated houses. -- Italo Calvino
The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the glimmer of two eyes that glared upon me. -- Mary Shelley
Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects. -- Charles Platt
When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us? -- Ann Voskamp

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