Intense Quotes · Page 18

I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few…

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.

— Frederick Lenz

Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is,…

— Richard Leakey

“When someone stirs a world of emotion in you and it’s so intense you can barely stand to be with him.”

— Lang Leav

At certain moments of intense personal grief, capturing images was for me the only way to comprehend later what was happening.

— Pedro Meyer

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities,…

— Eric Hoffer

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild…

— Flea

Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full…

— Anonymous

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You…

— John Green

I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you…

— Katie Lowes

You see the amount of bullying and negativity that goes on [social media] that is really, really intense, and I feel lucky…

— Natalie Portman

I always look for an intense experience, an intense ride. There is nothing better than a good zombie movie where you run…

— Sarah Polley

If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have…

— Galen Strawson

The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work…

— Irving Janis

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit…

— Mother Teresa

A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for…

— Mia Hamm

Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the…

— Anne Waldman

It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were…

— Eva Ibbotson

We enjoyed such amazing success on Sex and the City. You don't expect success on that level, it was such a big…

— Kristin Davis

The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its…

— Pope John Paul II

I'd like to get to a point where I am not considered natural by myself. When I say that I mean that…

— Kai Greene

“Allison." I almost collapsed in relief. "Yeah," I whispered, forcing a pained smile as he stared at me as if I were…

— Julie Kagawa

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.

— Henry Moore

The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

— Daniel Johns

There is a volatile mix, and that's because we're all intense. And there's no denying that.

— Alex Van Halen

I've been through it before, intense games in tight situations, but I'm able to just stay calm and do my thing.

— Nolan Arenado

I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.

— Alberto Salazar

I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.

— Ellie Goulding

I don't know how people will remember this series [of the Twilight Saga] at all. It's crazy how intense people are.

— Robert Pattinson

The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.

— Michael Ignatieff

The shock of somebody saying something to you that you know, but that you haven't acknowledged is a really severe, intense thing.

— Taylor Russell

I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.

— Zola Jesus

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly…

— Anonymous

Having chicks around is the kind of thing that breaks up the intense training. It gives you relief, and then afterward you…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I do tend to gravitate to the more dramatic side of things. I love feeling intense emotions when I'm acting. I just…

— Aaron Paul

So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

— Ned Beauman

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

— Dave Ramsey