Intense Quotes
I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.
A warrior knows that his days are few which leads him to an intense experience of life that is unknown to others.
Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.
Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.
LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.
Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.
During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.
And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside.
No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
The long version of the play is actually an easier version to follow. In all of the cut versions the intense speeches are cut too close together for the audience and the actors.
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
I don't think fashion people know about my work. Some collectors find some of the work too intense.
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.
Sometimes love is so intense that it turns into this gray area that borders on hate. That's what happens when the people you love have that type of power over you.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.
I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
What do you do after you go to space, more importantly? You can't go to a more intense, awesome thing. That's the end.
When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.
Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense.
As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
I actually feel something in my chest open, a feeling so intense, it’s like my heart’s about to burst. And I just let it. I just let it out.
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history
My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.
It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.
That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.
The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.
I mean, people think I'm too intense for baseball. I've always excelled to be the best, no matter what, but it's like people think something is wrong with that.
There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.
There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility
Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.
I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.
People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.
I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.