Intense Quotes
1056 quotes by 892 authors
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The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to…
— Michael Bassey
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Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are…
— George Friedman
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When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is…
— Criss Jami
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Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably…
— Zoe Kazan
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As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.
— Victoria Legrand
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When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.
— Brady Anderson
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I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
— Iris DeMent
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If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention…
— David Plotz
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I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.
— Donal Logue
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving…
— Fanny Kemble
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An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.
— John F. Kennedy
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability…
— Ernst Gombrich
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Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as…
— John Ruskin
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The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts.
— William Carlos Williams
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Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention…
— Ernest Dimnet
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A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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