My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Let me have you in the most intimate of ways, let me give you a part of myself that no other man… — Rachel L. Demeter Copy Share Image
I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense)… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
And in the fearless, reckless pursuit of intimate love, it is not the destination it's the journey. — Amanda Marshall Copy Share Image
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
My primary relationship is with myself- all others are mirrors of it. As I learn to love myself, I automatically receive the… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I worked on it [ Too Much Tuna] for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience. I couldn't believe… — Alex Timbers Copy Share Image
So you can have your program, but you also have to be ready to change it immediately because there are certain kinds… — Nickolas Ashford Copy Share Image
Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the most critical ingredient of an intimate relationship is trust. You have to know that the other person means what he or… — Winston T. Smith Copy Share Image
Domestic violence refers to acts of violence (physical, sexual, emotional and psychological) that occur between people who have, or have had, an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be an actor and a director, I actually felt it helped me tremendously to be in the scenes of The Hollars,… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece. — Doris Salcedo Copy Share Image
Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
During adolescence, friends bring an intimate quality of support that can't be provided by any adult. — Sara Shandler Copy Share Image
Intimacy is not only limited to the physical definition. The most beautiful of intimate moments is when you and your partner understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship. — Christie Hefner Copy Share Image
To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy;… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more… — Volkmar Sigusch Copy Share Image
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image