Intense Quotes
1056 quotes by 894 authors
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My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music
— Shreya Ghoshal
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There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let…
— Olive Schreiner
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When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it…
— Tony Attwood
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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer…
— Edward Hoagland
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Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel…
— Emily Browning
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In the dominant Western religious system, the love of God is essentially the same as the belief in God, in God’s existence, God’s justice, God’s…
— Erich Fromm
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This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that this…
— Michael Chekhov
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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
— Ovid
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Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy…
— John F. Kennedy
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I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it…
— Martha Graham
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A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.
— Anni Albers
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds…
— Jane Jacobs
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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and…
— Petrarch
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The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the…
— Abdul Kalam
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It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to…
— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and…
— John le Carre
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The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism,…
— Herbert Croly
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Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.
— Bill Rodgers
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