Intimacy Quotes - Page 20

• We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Strong, Ministry

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• When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.

  J. Brent Bill

  Heart, Rushing, Silence

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• I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Cities, Path

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (1999). “Selected Non-fictions”, Viking Press

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• If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.

  Marshall Rose

  Pain, Want, Enjoy

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• I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy. Is intent, is the balance between the familiar and the dream, it is being subjective and objective, it is being engaged and yet standing back and noticing something that perhaps other people didn’t notice before, or celebrating something that you feel is beautiful or valid, or true or engaging in some way.

  Christopher Doyle

  Beautiful, Dream, Thinking

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• We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents and good partners. If we are wise we strive for integrity and intimacy. If we are fortunate we discover love and joy. If we are able, we make the world a little better than we found it.

  Robert Reich

  Love, Wise, Growing Up

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• ... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states - for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.

  Adam Gopnik

  Photography, Sleep, Emotional

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• A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Sexy, Cat, Want

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• I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy.

  Dana Gould

  Mean, Snakes, Phobia

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Aug 13, 2013

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• Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Years, Want

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.147, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

  Maya Angelou

  Night, Hair, Dresses

  Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.3, Vintage

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• I always used to say to my ex-girlfriends that I could never take a good photograph of them, because there was too much of an intimacy between us, but actually the real thing is, if there's a proper intimacy between you... I find it really compelling and exciting - it's quite good foreplay.

  Rankin

  Girlfriend, Real, Too Much

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• Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Mean, Gossip

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• Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.

  Jennifer James

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

  Andrew Solomon

  Language, Absence

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• So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human with nature, is the best. We could make a scale with that in mind, and judge any technology by its place on that scale: speech and eyeglasses, say, would rank low; nuclear bombs and coal plants, high.

  Kirkpatrick Sale

  Technology, Eyeglasses, Judging

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

  Thomas Paine

  Infancy, Lasting, Misfortunes

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.37, Penguin

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• When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.

  Jill Soloway

  Real, Writing, Hard Times

  "The Funny Women Interview: The Soloway Sisters". Interview with Faith Soloway, therumpus.net. October 25, 2010.

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• The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.

  David Deida

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people - and in ways we don't know. You cross the street and assume that person isn't crazy, they don't want to mow me down with their car. I don't know that person but I am already in a relationship with them. I am asking them to abide by the traffic laws. If they decided not to, I'd be dead. Even in those anonymous ways, we're in relationships.

  Claudia Rankine

  Crazy, Law, Car

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.

  Eve Ensler

  Beautiful, Mean, Boys

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts.

  Hortense Calisher

  Family, Lines

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “On Keeping Women: A Novel”, p.264, Open Road Media

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• As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.

  Norman Lock

  Character, Viewpoints, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.

  Edan Lepucki

  Book, Loss, Safety

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.

  Anna Journey

  Shrimp, Cows, Superstitions

  Source: therumpus.net

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