Intense Quotes - Page 29

• It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Political, India, Spirituality

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1969). “Radhakrishnan Reader: An Anthology: Selections from the World-famous Philosopher-statesman's 40 and Odd Books Written Over a Period of 60 Years”

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• Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable. These are, to me, a part of the ordinary human condition. So I don't think I'm writing about abnormal things. ... Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception.

  John le Carre

  Real, Writing, Artist

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• The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Spiritual, Leader, Limits

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

  Herbert Croly

  Optimism, Literature, Mixtures

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, People, Celebration

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• What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Depression, Bipolar, Wheels

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• It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.

  Hector Berlioz

  Depression, Running, Heart

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• It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.

  Charles Duke

  Space, Texture, Earth

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• An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it's an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning.

  Ryu Si-won

  Drama, Laughing, Age

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• Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers. How bad a pain is depends on how intense it is and how long it lasts, but pain of the same intensity and duration are equally bad, whether felt by humans or animals.

  Peter Singer

  Sex, Pain, Animal

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• The quantum entered physics with a jolt. It didn't fit anywhere; it made no sense; it contradicted everything we thought we knew about nature. Yet the data seemed to demand it. ... The story of Werner Heisenberg and his science is the story of the desperate failures and ultimate triumphs of the small band of brilliant physicists who-during an incredibly intense period of struggle with the data, the theories, and each other during the 1920s-brought about a revolutionary new understanding of the atomic world known as quantum mechanics.

  David C. Cassidy

  Nature, Struggle, Science

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• Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will for seven days appear to you in their benign and peaceful aspect. Their light will shine upon you, ... Wonderful and delightful though they are, The Buddhas may nevertheless frighten you. Do not give in to your fright! Do not run away! Serenely contemplate the spectacle before you! Overcome your fear, and feel no desire! Realize that these are the rays of the grace of the Buddhas, who come to receive you into their Buddha-realms. Pray to them with intense faith and humility.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Book, Humility

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• In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

  Joel Garreau

  Opportunity, Order, Differences

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.220, Broadway Books

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• As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.

  Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

  Inspirational, Integrity, Leader

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• Do not despair when in spite of intense supplication,
  there is a delay in receiving the expected gift.
  He has guaranteed that he will respond
  in what He chooses for you,
  and not what you choose for yourself,
  and at the time He chooses
  not the time you desire.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Despair

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• Coolidge expressed his "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine."

  Calvin Coolidge

  Israel, Expression, Presidential

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• 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.

  Jerry Wexler

  Respect, Real, Roots

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• The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Romantic Love, Romance, Love Relationship

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.150, New World Library

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• There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Memorial Day, America, Feelings

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• Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

  Helen Fisher

  Romantic Love, Years, Romance

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• I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.

  Elvis Stojko

  Real, Way, Brian

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• The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

  Tony Gilroy

  Writing, Tunnels, Wind

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• Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Sadness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 11, 2014

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• Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

  Harry Houdini

  Kings, Fire, Coal

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

  Paul Verlaine

  Spring, Army, Fire

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