Intimate Quotes - Page 28

• It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate.

  Julie London

  Voice, Sound, Use

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• In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Foundation, Too Much, Losing

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.24

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• You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, Men, Political

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• Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Women, Character

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq”, p.383

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• Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Independent, Home, Self

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1860). “Gleanings”, p.208

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• I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• We're travelling through space and time, we're dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family - a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Thor: The Dark World - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation.

  John Dewey

  Appreciation, Imagination, Engagement

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.226, Courier Corporation

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• There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.

  Waite Hoyt

  Baseball, Running, Home

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• I found that the camera was a comforting companion. It opened up new worlds, and gave me access to people's most intimate moments. I discovered the privilege of seeing life in all its complexity, the thrill of learning something new every day. When I was behind a camera, it was the only place in the world I wanted to be.

  Lynsey Addario

  Photography, Intimate Moments, Learning Something New

  Lynsey Addario (2015). “It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War”, p.19, Penguin

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• While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

  Frederick Lenz

  Writing, Journey, America

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• The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Wisdom, Doe, Market Efficiency

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• I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Real, Circles, People

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• The bible teaches that a father may sell his daughter for a slave, that he may sacrifice her purity to a mob, and that he may murder her, and still be a good father and a holy man. It teaches that a man may have any number of wives; that he may sell them, give them away, or swap them around, and still be a perfect gentleman, a good husband, a righteous man, and one of God's most intimate friends; and that is a pretty good position for a beginning.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Daughter, Husband, Father

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• Since I was both an atheist and an absurdist, I had decided that the most absurd thing I could do would be to develop an intimate relationship with the God I didn't believe in.

  Paul Krassner

  Atheist, Believe, Intimate Relationships

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• One of the great things about being commander in chief is getting to know our men and women in uniform in a very intimate way, whether it's visiting Walter Reed and seeing our wounded soldiers, or being on a base and talking to families, or interacting with them on missions. They're the best of the best: always thinking about the mission, not thinking about credit, not thinking about who's up front.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People are talking about sex. They're talking about sex with their husbands. They're talking about sex with their girlfriends. They're talking about sex with their partners. And because of all of this communication, women are having much more intimate relationships, which is fantastic.

  E. L. James

  Girlfriend, Sex, Husband

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it's the most accessible luxury.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Memories, Thinking, Luxury

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Humorous, Gay

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• Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Lying, Mean

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• The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.

  James Hollis

  Intimate Relationships, Our Relationship

  James Hollis (1993). “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife”, p.47, Inner City Books

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• Men are not on such intimate terms with the sublime that they really can believe in it

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Believe, Men, Sublime

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• The man who contemplates the universe with his eyes wide open is the man with the greatest amount of natural piety; not in the religious sense, but in the sense of an intimate harmony with things.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Eye, Men

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Secret Conversations, 1941-1944”

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• There is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ's appearing.

  George Muller

  Christian, Connections, Glory

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• The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect Kristiana Kahakauwila's intimate but expansive vision of a Hawai'i forged from the collisions of past and present, here and there. Her protagonists are as richly distinctive as the pidgin they speak, and yet each struggles profoundly with identity-that negotiation between ourselves and the world, which is at once Hawaiian, American, universally and compellingly human.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Struggle, Past, Vision

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