Intense Quotes · Page 18

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify…

— Anonymous

With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater.

— George C. Wolfe

The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

— Helen Fisher

The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity…

— Vera Nazarian

Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

— Lou Barlow

I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.

— B.o.B

“t felt like stepping into a spa, or a dream, or a memory she hadn’t known she missed.”

— D.L. Maddox

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like…

— Clara Hughes

“Tipping her head, she stared into his tawny, hazel eyes, so intense, so burning-hot and all-consuming. Had she ever had a man…

— Shiloh Walker

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album.…

— Ronnie Montrose

It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is…

— Steven Wright

Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm…

— Harold B. Lee

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a…

— Janet Guthrie

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say…

— Salman Rushdie

People will help you do almost anything if you want to do it badly enough. The desire has to be intense, but…

— Nola Ochs

Nature actually works through intense cooperation. There is competition in nature , but it thrives through cooperation. We don't teach this to…

— Tom Shadyac

The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jefferson's day have continued to burn with…

— J. Edgar Hoover

There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning. that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense…

— David Hume

For many years I wrote nothing but "I will not sleep with Steve Almond" over and over again, page after page à…

— Alissa Nutting

Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he…

— Mother Teresa

In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word,…

— Russell Simmons

Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces…

— Gerald Durrell

When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

— Keith Henson

[Clayton Kershaw ] is intense. He's a competitor.He's extremely fun to play behind.

— Chase Utley

My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I played with the youth national team, I played in some CONCACAF games, and it's always physical; it's always intense.

— Christian Pulisic

When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

— Scott Brooks

“The room was safe and warm and beautiful. The memory filled me with a love so intense, it knocked the air from…

— M.K. Harkins

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing…

— Carol Ann Duffy

...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

— Amy Chua

“I want to be stunned by passion so intense it knocks me right off my feet, down to my knees, where I…

— Ellen Hopkins

The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal…

— Michael Bell

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that…

— Sarah Polley

A regular workout for me is 30 minutes of intense cardio followed by lifting weights.

— Nina Agdal

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

— Thomas Nagel

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have…

— Penelope Lively

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

— Henry Giroux