Intense Quotes

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I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of… — Mary MacLane
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting, and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more… — Florida Scott-Maxwell
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times,… — Florida Scott-Maxwell
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need.… — Robert Motherwell
First I took a crap on the hooker's chest, then I told her I'd pay her a thousand dollars to eat it. She was addicted… — Zach Braff
My work is getting stronger & stronger and more intense all the time.... I have such a rush of new energy & notions coming into… — Marsden Hartley
Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular… — Gerald Durrell
Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine… — Kay Redfield Jamison
There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in… — Maria Bello
I find that God by any name can be reduced to this sense of the eternal Presence. It defines being, and I see it as… — Elizabeth Clare Prophet
Hot groups have members who are task-obsessed and full of passion. They share a style which is "intense, sharply focused, and full bore. Members feel… — Unknown Author
Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the intense, vibrant color… — Alex Webb
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part… — Henry David Thoreau
Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without… — C. Northcote Parkinson
The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jefferson's day have continued to burn with an intense and… — J. Edgar Hoover
May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love,… — George Eliot
I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's. — Woody Allen
Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you. — Kyra Sedgwick
The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest. — Robert Henri
Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense. — James Salter

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