Quotes with intensely

  • Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
  • To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
  • What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

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  • Jean Genet What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Mark Twain A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Sigmund Freud Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Susan Sontag Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Charles V Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
    Charles V
    Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria
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  • Oscar Wilde He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bill Brandt It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.
    Bill Brandt, behind the camera: photographs 1928-1983
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Barry Hannah My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Angela Davis Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Ezra Pound Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Uta Hagen Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting - intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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  • J. G. Ballard The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Earl Nightingale The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Elizabeth Drew The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Ansel Adams These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Leonard Bernstein This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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