Intimate Quotes - Page 24

• Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

  Henry Dreyfuss

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Design

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• Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.

  Dan B. Allender

  War, Battle, Allies

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• Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

  Mark Twain

  Blood, Stranger, Choke

  Mark Twain (2004). “Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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• In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

  Doris Salcedo

  Art, Giving, Pieces

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• I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to others.... Kindred souls—indeed, my selves otherwise costumed—turn up in books in the most unexpected places. Discovering them is one of the great rewards of a liberal education. If I quote liberally, it is not to show off book learning, which at my stage of life can only invite ridicule, but rather to bathe in this kinship of strangers.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Book, Self, Oneness

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• It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

  William McFee

  Dark, Easier

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Forgiveness, Silly, Pride

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• Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

  Gilbert Highet

  Intimate Conversation, Dancing, Needs

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• Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Disappointment, Drama, Writing

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• One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or find ourselves caught up in the madness of the wake, competing with others as to who was closest, now suffers most.

  Fay Weldon

  Hair, Mourning, Suffering

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• Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  School, Humility, Science

  Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

  Douglas Coupland

  Eggs, Voice, People

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• Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

  Reynolds Price

  Lice, Monkeys, Way

  Reynolds Price (2000). “Tongues of Angels: A Novel”, Scribner

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• If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try to carry on with You each day is comic-what could be more comic than a human addressing the Ground of Being as an intimate? It's a kind of blasphemy that I dare because you have called for it, and that is pretty humorous, too.

  Andrew Greeley

  Laughter, Humorous, Trying

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• One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Distance, Taken

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of the intimate, usable power of God is growing among us, and a growing recognition of the only worth-while application of that power-in the improvement of the world.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Religious, Teaching, Mind

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.322, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to the universe, and the Ground of all being, the aim of our life.

  Paul Tillich

  Soul, Depth, Spirit

  Paul Tillich (2012). “The Shaking of the Foundations”, p.46, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• ......at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Moving, Self, New Life

  Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.13, SUNY Press

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• The present state of atomic theory is characterized by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, but also we even believe that we have an intimate knowledge of the constituents of the individual atoms.

  Niels Bohr

  Believe, Science, Doubt

  Niels Bohr (1977). “The Periodic System (1920-1923)”, p.467, Elsevier

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• I'm guessing I'm your fake girlfriend? B. J. Asks, sighing. It's a miracle that he figured it out. He's not usually the best with things that aren't spelled out for him. Of course, sweetie, I say. I try not to think about the fact that I'm talking to B. J. Like we're in love. B. J. Is six-foot-four and 220 pounds. Not someone you want to think about being intimate with.

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Talking

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• After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.

  Louise Brooks

  Names, Giving, Anecdotes

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• The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.

  Robert Burchfield

  Doctors, Adults, Diaries

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• I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Thinking, Ideas, Cameras

  "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.

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• As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

  Charles Hodge

  Church, Analogies, Individual

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• Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.

  Gerda Lerner

  Sex, Commitment, Intimate Relationships

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