The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“What is the nature of your emergency?” “I was assaulted in the street,” Krissa responds. “What is the location of the assault?”… — Stephen Alder Copy Share Image
The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
I see myself more as an action director. All right, I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action but I like to blend and… — Neil Marshall Copy Share Image
By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact,… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“God the way he was looking at her, with no pity or disgust. Intense, with only the slightest softening around his eyes… — Kit Rocha Copy Share Image
I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense, but not irrational, nor naïve - because art… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
For years my life alternated between depression and acute anxiety. One night I woke up in a state of dread and intense… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up.… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only… — Chip Pitts Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People will help you do almost anything if you want to do it badly enough. The desire has to be intense, but… — Nola Ochs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because… — E. M. Delafield Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans and people around the world, especially young people who face intense financial challenges today, haven't been taught how to… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I can't remember feeling this way... since well, ever. It's new. It's scary. It's exciting. It's nerve-racking. It's calming. It's every single… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
My work is getting stronger & stronger and more intense all the time… I have such a rush of new energy &… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
High school is a really strange time - you're not a kid, you're not an adult. You're about to be an adult,… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in your life are when… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Insatiable is my desire for you, Insane is my love you, Limitless are my boundaries for you, True are my feelings for… — Pushpa Rana Copy Share Image
As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A… — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
On stage, there are hundreds of people watching you. It's so much energy directed at you. I pick up energy really easily.… — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
I hated myself because I had this imagined version of who I wanted to be. Looking back, this idealized person was an… — Oliver Stark Copy Share Image
![“The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had run a show that had already existed and had been created by the show-runner, Meredith [Stiehm]. It's a very different experience to come in at ground zero and meet people and…” quote by Veena Sud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/930/veena-sud-27264_casts_the-most-surprising-thing-to-me-is-what_262618.jpg)
