Intimacy Quotes - Page 21

• We've got to fight against bigness. If a school gets too large, you lose an intimacy with the students; they begin to feel they're just part of a big complex. I don't think you can create too well in a big plant. That's why I always tried to avoid bigness in the studio.

  Walt Disney

  School, Fighting, Thinking

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• One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn’t. You just end up thinking, who is this person?

  Hanif Kureishi

  Thinking, Ends, Mark

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Black Album”, p.37, Faber & Faber

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• I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

  Amanda Palmer

  Commitment, Degrees, Burning

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• The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Maturity, Stories

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.

  F. R. Scott

  Moon, Night, Lakes

  1945 'Trans Canada'.

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• The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord.

  Heidi Baker

  Fruit, Abundance, Lord

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• Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures.

  Mark Whitwell

  Yoga, Mean, Age

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• God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship.

  Peter Kreeft

  God, Caring, Understanding

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.109, Ignatius Press

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• Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day they are assigned to view the world with a critical eye and a detached sense of intimacy.

  Gay Talese

  Eye, Views, People

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• Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.

  Kirk J. Schneider

  Reflection, Discovery, Self

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• I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

  Jim Goldberg

  Intuition, Privilege, Guides

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• When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.

  Peter Høeg

  Sex, Thinking, Culmination

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.450, Macmillan

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• To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

  David Whyte

  Abandoned, Deny, Surroundings

  David Whyte (2009). “The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship”, p.50, Penguin

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• A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

  Oswald Chambers

  Joy, Intimacy With God

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Joy and Peace: A Holy Condition”, p.51, Discovery House

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• Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

  Peter Zumthor

  Wall, Believe, Simple

  "Swiss-made Serpentine pavilion presents garden of tranquility" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see...

  Martin de Maat

  Knows

  "A Conversation with Martin de Maat". The Monthly Aspectarian, August 1998.

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• No other human relationship can approach the potential for intimacy and oneness than can be found within the context of a marriage commitment. And yet no other relationship can bring with it as many adjustments, difficulties and even hurts. There's no way you can avoid these difficulties; each couple's journey is unique. But there is much you can do to prepare for that journey. An engagement is not just a time of preparation for a wedding, but also preparation for a marriage.

  Dennis Rainey

  Hurt, Couple, Commitment

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• I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

  Sarah Brightman

  Focus, Musical, Theatre

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• Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Broken, Waiting

  Charles F. Stanley (2001). “A Gift of Love: Reflections for the Tender Heart”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Architect, Propose

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.

  Dan Millman

  Fear, Animal, Garden

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• Apart from the pleasure of looking at her and listening to her-of enjoying in her what others less discriminatingly but as liberally appreciated-he had the sense, between himself and her, of a kind of free-masonry of precocious tolerance and irony. They had both, in early youth, taken the measure of the world they happened to live in: they knew just what it was worth to them and for what reasons, and the community of these reasons lent to their intimacy its last exquisite touch.

  Edith Wharton

  Taken, Community, Tolerance

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2130, Delphi Classics

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• I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

  Jane Siberry

  Rocks, Space, Trying

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• I love intimacy, always, of performing.

  Julio Iglesias

  Performing

  "As always, Julio Iglesias speaks the language... of love". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. January 13, 2011.

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• There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world.

  Jerry Stahl

  Couple, Views, Car

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