Intensely Quotes

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde

Friends, Disliked

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison

Sex, Soul, Said

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
Leonard Bernstein

Music, Before, Violence

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne

Forget, Nothing, Wish

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Sigmund Freud

Children, Needs, Strive

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley

God, Strength, Travel

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali

Work, Art, Society

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
Earl Nightingale

Deep, Goal, Path

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Good, Others, Put

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
Ansel Adams

Live, Old, Again

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.
Wesley Morris

Love, Fool, Kindness

The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind.
Woodrow Wilson

Future, Sea, Question

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.
Jimmy Carter

Black, American, Fact

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.
Frank Crane

Enough, Succeed

Television is intensely personal.
Jessica Savitch

Personal, Television

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
Karen Armstrong

Science, Technology, Live

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
Annie Lennox

Life, Work, Great

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
Charles Eames

Change, Best, Away

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.
Maurice Sendak

Death, Live, Human

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Down, Used, Times

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.
Anne Parillaud

Love, Live, Understand

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
Ricky Williams

Best, Football, Person

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Susan Sontag

Future, Past, Present

I don't like being approached by people who look at me too intensely, who needed something from me that I didn't have. I don't represent anything.
Liz Phair

Needed, Represent, Approached

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
Barry Commoner

Powerful, Point, Production

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound

Power, Book, Light

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
J. G. Ballard

Film, Present, Large

Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.
Mario Batali

Garden, Plate, Drag

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.
Tony Kushner

Great, Learned, Deal

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.
Jane Smiley

Experience, Book, Words

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