I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's… — Lincoln Hall Copy Share Image
Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved… — Placido Domingo Copy Share Image
The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all,… — Angela Thirkell Copy Share Image
I brought killer intensity to my workouts… It’s not enough to just show up and do the workout. You have to bring… — Lynn Jennings Copy Share Image
It's great, it's a creative process! It's something that I've been hungry for and I feel like I'm getting fed every day!… — Kendra Kassebaum Copy Share Image
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
At times of extreme intensity, the kundalini can become active. Suddenly a 70-year old lady, who can't lift a bag of prunes,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces...… — Max von Laue Copy Share Image
What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The strategy we've adopted precludes our following standard diversification dogma. Many pundits would therefore say the strategy must be riskier than that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells.… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself...the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head… — Victoria Pendleton Copy Share Image
I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there.… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Quebec's financial situation is serious. In terms of intensity, we're close to matching 1982 and 1997. We won't do the same things… — Philippe Couillard Copy Share Image
“To curl up belongs to the phenomenology of the verb to inhabit, and only those who have learned to do so can… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes,… — Marcia Whicker Copy Share Image
When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly half way between. It… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it.… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the… — Simon Baker Copy Share Image
It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right.… — Bill Brandt Copy Share Image
It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other… — Shannyn Sossamon Copy Share Image