Intense Quotes
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.
I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.
Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.
People suddenly expected less of me and I didn't want that. Not only could I keep up with sighted kids, I could excel. I have an intense competiveness that was always in me.
The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth
I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense.
Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.
I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.
Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.
We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.
Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; This is a occupancy for people greedy for life - human life is not enough.
Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.
The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.
I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.
I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.
Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.
You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.
I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.
I tell runners... that no matter how inexperienced a runner you may be, there is nothing wrong with being intense. You don't know what you might discover.
The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in close proximity than when I'm performing at The Palace Theatre.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.
...let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines.
Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.
Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.
Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.
When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.
All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.
Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.
Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.