Intimate Quotes

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All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate. — Peter De Vries
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be… — Henry David Thoreau
Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients. — Henry Dreyfuss
Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love,… — Dan B. Allender
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece. — Doris Salcedo
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to… — Yi-Fu Tuan
It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark. — William McFee
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to… — Lord Chesterfield
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and… — Gilbert Highet
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or… — Fay Weldon
Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts. — Miguel de Unamuno
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying… — Douglas Coupland
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for. — Reynolds Price
I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head. — Laura Marling
Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these… — Ryan McGinley
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. — Joseph O'Neill
Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional. — Caroline Myss
I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially… — Tom Peters

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