Intimate Quotes
726 Intimate quotes by 594 unique authors
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If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Finn leaped from his horse to greet Enna, and she entwined herself into him, their arms around each other, their faces close. Thoug they did…
— Shannon Hale
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Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family…
— Bell Hooks
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Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless…
— Bell Hooks
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I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with…
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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Flirtation doesn't have to go somewhere; it certainly doesn't need to end up in bed. I like to think of it as a little friendlier…
— Karen Marie Moning
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You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals…
— Haruki Murakami
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Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day. But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with…
— Vera Nazarian
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Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God's…
— Wendell Berry
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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad…
— Jane Austen
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An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always…
— Stendhal
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You know, in a way, 'Dear Santa Claus' is rather stuffy... Perhaps something a little more intimate would be better... Something just a shade more…
— Charles M. Schulz
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Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of…
— Amy Bloom
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We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to…
— Walter Benjamin
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He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it…
— Ian McDonald
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My grandmother used to say that there's something truly intimate about sharing food with the people you love." [Stacey] "Intimate? Sharing food? People you love?"…
— Laurie Faria Stolarz
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It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch…
— Oswald Chambers
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Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
— Pico Iyer
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there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
— Brad Meltzer
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