Intense Quotes - Page 31

• I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Order, Space, Different

  Dame Barbara Hepworth (1952). “Carvings and Drawings”

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• In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Past, Discovery, Years

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• Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters." (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?"

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fighting, People, Selfishness

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• There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

  GG Allin

  Fire, Burning, Want

  "The Jane Whitney Show", July 16, 1993.

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• The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.

  Austin Mahone

  Fans, British

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• L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Islands, Europe, Calming Effect

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• The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history

  Gavin Newsom

  San Francisco, Economic

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• Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.

  W. G. Sebald

  Civilization, Growing, Strange

  W. G. Sebald (2016). “The Rings of Saturn”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved, is fulfilled; and union follows. And when union is attained, the lover knows that he himself was all along the Beloved whom he loved and desired union with; and that all the impossible situations that he overcame were obstacles which he himself had placed in the path to himself. To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

  Meher Baba

  Impossible Situations, Purpose, Unions

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• SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.

  M. John Harrison

  Fun, Opportunity, Imagination

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• The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.

  Jacqueline du Pre

  Drunk, Herbs, Made

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• Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

  Thomas Nagel

  Occupation, Life Is, Human Life

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

  Jean Houston

  Mutation, Consciousness, Produce

  Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher

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• I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think anything like that will ever happen in the NBA. Emotions run rampant. The games are so intense, and the stakes are so high. (But) At the end of the day, players and coaches really respect officials and really appreciate that they try to do a good job.

  Jalen Rose

  Running, Jobs, Player

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• Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Writing, Long, Stories

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• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive stress of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Stress, Believe, Writing

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• I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it's not really that intense or even that serious, but just... you know after a while you get tired of hearing clergymen giving the invocation at various public celebrations and you feel, haven't we outgrown all this? Do we have to listen to this?

  Steven Weinberg

  Tired, Europe, America

  "The Atheism Tapes". Documentary, 2004.

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• I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

  Vince Carter

  Opponents, Situation, Know How

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• The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to go more and more into self-interest. Even to see other folks as competition.

  Major Owens

  Self, People, Competition

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• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  Rahul Dravid

  Intellectual, Cricketers

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• I was deeply impressed and moved by his masterful playing. He was highly polished, profound, subtle, and intense. He was extremely fluent in a great combination of the traditional vernacular with his own. Hearing it unfold and being in a position to participate was a great pleasure. Part of being an accompanist is that the stronger the soloist, the more I can do all that I know to do. So, Joe was as good as it gets.

  Pete La Roca

  Music, Profound, Good As It Gets

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• It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

  Felicity Jones

  Perspective, Different, Actors

  "Felicity Jones and the buzz about Hysteria" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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• 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.

  Oswald Chambers

  Temptation, Cost, Earth

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• No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.

  James Lovelock

  Science, Data, Games

  James Lovelock (1987). “Gaia: a new look at life on earth”, Oxford University Press, USA

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