Intensity Quotes

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Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill.… — Diane Ackerman
Christ said: Blessed are the peace-makers, not blessed are the peace-sayers. If the world fell into the hands of totalitarian factions, there is still the… — Michael Novak
I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester… — Alex Ferguson
There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the… — James Lovelock
The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats'… — Brad Blanton
The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past… — David Brooks
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.… — Oscar Wilde
It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to… — Soren Kierkegaard
Besides surfing, I play tennis, volleyball, I swim, I run hills, or I do high-intensity, high-interval workouts. I'm up at 5 A.M. every day. — Bethany Hamilton
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in… — Allan Bloom
My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything? — Saul Bellow
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation. — Rajneesh
We are all born to dieâ€”the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live. — Gina Lollobrigida
Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It… — Alexis Carrel
Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity. — Albert Camus
Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in… — Desmond Morris
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality… — John Drinkwater

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