Intimate Quotes - Page 20

• Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

  Byron Katie

  Intimate Relationships

  "Love: An Unconditional Experience of the Heart". Interview with Linda Sechrist, www.naturalawakeningsmag.com. February 2007.

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• But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Song, Dark, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My car's my best friend. My office. My home. My location. I have a very intimate sense when I am in a car with someone next to me. We're in the most comfortable seats because we're not facing each other, but sitting side by side. We don't look at each other, but instead do so only when we want to. We're allowed to look around without appearing rude. We have a big screen in front of us and side views. Silence doesn't seem heavy or difficult. Nobody serves anybody. And many other aspects. One most important thing is that it transports us from one place to another.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Home, Views, Car

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.

  Justin Kan

  Manage, Hard

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• I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Believe, Issues, Abortion

  "Alan Simpson Fires Off Angry Letter To HuffPost" By Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 9, 2012.

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• As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community - as well as the majority of heterosexuals - cannot and do not choose the gender of the persons with whom they seek to have intimate relationships because, unlike me, they are only attracted to one sex.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Sex, Believe, Intimate Relationships

  "Cynthia Nixon Updates Her Controversial Statement: She Now Says She is "Technically" Bisexual". www.glamour.com. January 31, 2012.

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• As you all become more intimate with Me, with opportunities to come closer to Me, all that is good and bad within you comes out in sparks, as it were . . . all the impressions of the past, the accumulations of past sanskaras - of all illusory things, which includes both good and bad - come out. My proximity, the intimacy with Me, just changes that mass of sanskaras, and sometimes you find sparks of good and bad flying out.

  Meher Baba

  Past, Opportunity, Flying

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• Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together.

  Milan Kundera

  Beautiful, Two, People

  "Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

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• The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.

  Henri Poincare

  Life, Beautiful, Nature

  "Science and Method". Book by Henri Poincaré, translated by Francis Maitland. Part I, Chapter 1: "The Selection of Facts", p. 22, 1914.

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• People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Thinking, People

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• It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Dog, Smart, Stupid

  "'The future is going to be very exciting'". Interview With Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2009.

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• If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

  Douglas Coupland

  Want, Return, Ends

  "Hey Nostradamus!". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2003.

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• I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Lying, Fall, Government

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• A state is organic when it has a center, and this center is an idea that shapes the various domains of life in an efficacious way; it is organic when it ignores the division and the autonomization of the particular and when, by virtue of the system of hierarchical participation, every part within its relative autonomy performs its own function and enjoys an intimate connection with the whole.

  Julius Evola

  Ideas, Connections, Division

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• Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. I use direct sound, mono not stereo. Just direct sound, so for every shot there are only two sources. Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

  Bruno Dumont

  Depressing, Hollywood Films, Two

  "French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan: 'No God but Cinema'". Interview with Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

  Susie Bright

  Mom, Thinking, Needs

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• I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Real, Character

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• In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Opposites, Romance, Zoom

  "Should I cut an old friend out of my life?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2013.

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• The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.

  Richard Halliburton

  Vagabonds, World, Life Is

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• Jesus came to reveal God to us. He is the defining word on God—on what the heart of God is truly like, on what God is up to in the world, and on what God is up to in your life. An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. To be mistaken about him is the saddest mistake of all.

  John Eldred

  Jesus, Mistake, Home

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• Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies; Nay, who but infants question in such wise, twas one of my most intimate enemies.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Wise, Lying, Enemy

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1911). “The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti”

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• I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Jesus, Brother, Vulnerable

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• Hope and faith are two intimate brothers; they always go together. Hope nourishes faith and faith treasures hope.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Brother, Two, Hopeful

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.399, Aum Publications

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• As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness... then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Anger

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• I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.

  Josef Albers

  Art, Men, Thinking

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