Intimacy Quotes - Page 3

• San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.

  George Halas

  Mean, Cities, San Francisco

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• In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

  Havelock Ellis

  Romantic, Sex, Exercise

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.34, Elsevier

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• Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?

  Phil Donahue

  Men, Quiet, Wonder

  Phil Donahue (1979). “Donahue, my own story”

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• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Night, Men, Wife

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

  George Santayana

  Together, Needs, Agree

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2008). “The Letters of George Santayana, Book Eight, 1948-1952”, p.211, MIT Press

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• Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

  Eric Berne

  Gambling, Games, Compromise

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• You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart.

  Diana Krall

  Broken Heart, Song, Creating

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• All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

  Peter De Vries

  Couple, Bears, Intimate

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Comfort Me with Apples: A Novel”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

  Iris Murdoch

  Loneliness, Games, Soul

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.89, Penguin

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• There's the artist's intimacy and truthfulness to himself, but an equal intimacy to the Other [the one drawn]. Picasso drawings are like that... the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.

  John Berger

  Artist, Drawing, Vans

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• What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

  Monica Baldwin

  Humility, Doe, Capacity

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• As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

  Delia Ephron

  Children, Kids, Custody

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• It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Growing Up, Voice, Paper

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• The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Home, Heart, Intimate Relationships

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• The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.

  Mark Rothko

  Want, Painting, Reason

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• Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Names, Forgotten, Muscles

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• That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

  Francesco Clemente

  Portraits, Way, Moments

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• That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Praying, Praying For You, I Pray

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.19, Macmillan

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• The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of it, they began to regain the intimacy, the bond of familiarity, they had once shared.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Moon, Sky, Rose

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• One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Feelings, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2044, Delphi Classics

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• The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Cohabitation, Faces

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• It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

  Ben Shahn

  Shapes, Painting, Affair

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.49, Harvard University Press

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• The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded or inflatable, so that it not only reinstates the concealed shape, but also enlarges it, imitating in this way the breast swelling that occurs during sexual arousal.

  Desmond Morris

  Arousal, Female, Shapes

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

  Karl Rahner

  Eerie, Names, Silence

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• Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.

  Francis Chan

  Heart, People, Trying

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