Intense Quotes

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa

Love, Measure, Gives

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Known, Mode

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Michael Jordan

Love, Peace, Time

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm

Love, Mother, Help

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson

Life, Experience, Woman

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Edgar Allan Poe

Beautiful, Once, Pleasure

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin Williams

Women, Days, Wars

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
Carl Jung

Sense, Calm, Leave

Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.
Clint Eastwood

Drama, Conflict

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.
Hillary Clinton

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. Wilson

Selfish, Win, Between

And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.
Genevieve Gorder

Deep, Saying, Hard

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
George Eliot

Happiness, Freedom, Perfect

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
Amanda Seyfried

Music, Soul, Sometimes

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
Harry S. Truman

Truth, Feeling, Often

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
Robert W. Service

Life, Society, Free

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles

Reality, Often, Capable

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
Alanis Morissette

Down, Emotions, Deal

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.
Henry Rollins

Angry, Books, Stuff

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.
Stendhal

Love, Music, Less

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Become, Fact, National

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
James Allen

Nature, Find, Practice

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
Jimmy Carter

Good, Made, Special

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
Eric Hoffer

Different, Desire, Perhaps

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

Sometimes, Desire, Seems

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer

Sometimes, Talent, Desire

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom Stoppard

Work, Freedom, Working

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.
Shaun White

Snow, Pretty, Strange

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.
Lady Gaga

Pretty, Matter, Once

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
Jerry Saltz

Beauty, Complex, Relations

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