Intensity Quotes - Page 19

• ...Speaking of, I've been playing with the letters - Lovers In a Very Enlightened Regard." "LIVER. Good one." "Also, how about Life Invasion Via Exceptional Respect?" "Life Invasion. Like it." "Or Lovelike Intensity Via Emotional Rapport." "Doesn't that spell OLIVER?

  Shannon Hale

  Emotional, Letters, Invasion

  Shannon Hale (2009). “The Actor and the Housewife: A Novel”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Good Night, Mother, Prayer

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1031, Delphi Classics

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• You can run,” Dorian said in a neutral tone that did nothing to lessen the intensity of his expression, “but sooner or later, you run out of places to run to.

  Nalini Singh

  Running, Expression, Tone

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Play of Passion”, p.145, Penguin

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• Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.

  Mark Helprin

  Running, Lonely, Laughter

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity

  Mina Loy

  Space, Immensity

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.3, Macmillan

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• As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.

  Norman Maclean

  Gratitude, Biblical, Compassion

  Norman Maclean (2017). “Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Intelligent, Found Happiness

  ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1970). “ISLANDS IN THE STREAM”

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• He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity.

  Ilona Andrews

  Violence, Impression, Ifs

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.95, Penguin

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• Vishous's chest expanded. . . and his diamond stare slowly swung to Butch. There was a heartbeat of intensity. Then V reached out and repositioned the cross so it once again hung over Butch's heart. "You did well, cop. Congratulations, true?

  J.R. Ward

  Congratulations, Heart, Cop

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.445, Penguin

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• My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.

  Dave Eggers

  Pain, Color, Wings

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• Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself ... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. Last night, driving back from Boston, I lay back in the car and let the colored lights come at me, the music from the radio, the reflection of the guy driving. It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain ... remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be the good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.

  Sylvia Plath

  Pain, Taken, Bye

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• Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?

  Virginia Woolf

  Stars, Hero, Book

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.28, Virginia Woolf

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• Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life... The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Reading, People, Suffering

  "The Faith of a Heretic" by Walter Kaufmann, Princeton University Press, Ch. 12 (pp. 374-375), 1961.

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• The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Degrees, Forget

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• How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.

  Anais Nin

  Stress, Rich Life, Burning

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• Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

  Leonard Cohen

  Baby, Children, War

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• And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

  David Foster Wallace

  Archer, Heart, Wish

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “Girl With Curious Hair”, p.301, Hachette UK

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• In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

  Haruki Murakami

  Way, Muster

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.240, Random House

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• It was body rush After body rush, intensity building. Touch me there.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Body, Building, Touch Me

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Women want their love to be reciprocated in the same way they give it; they want their romantic lives to be as rewarding as they make them for their potential mates; they want the emotions that they turn on full blast to be met with the same intensity; and they expect the premium they put on commitment to be equally adhered to, valued, and respected.

  Steve Harvey

  Commitment, Giving, Want

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• There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Kissing, Discovery

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.48, A&C Black

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• A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Communication, Two, Important

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• An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in them of mental states of great strangeness ... a wordless and irrational feeling of ecstasy; or a breath of psychic pain; a sense of being spoken to from afar, from the sky or the sea; an agonizingly developed sense of hearing which can cause one to wince at the murmuring of unseen atoms; an irrational staring into the heart of some closed kingdom suddenly and briefly revealed.

  Knut Hamsun

  Pain, Heart, Sea

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• She could not have gazed at him with a more rapturous intensity if she had been a small child and he a saucer of ice cream.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Children, Humorous, Ice Cream

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Moments of crisis, like the shooting in Newtown, tend to produce brief spikes of popular interest in gun control. My research on media attention suggests these spikes are extremely short-lived, and that they may be decreasing in intensity.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Gun, Media, Attention

  "Mourn, and take action on guns" by Ethan Zuckerman, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2012.

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