“ Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. ”
- Frederick William Robertson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely. ”
- Anne Parillaud- Copy
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“ Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
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“ Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away. ”
- Charles V- Copy
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“ We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely. ”
- Andrew Soloman- Copy
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“ A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
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“ Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
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“ The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. ”
- Elizabeth Drew- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write-with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. ”
- Jim Morrison- Copy
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“ So I was the associate editor of a medical journal in Chicago, and I was thirty seven, and all of a sudden I just sort of started going through this dark night of the soul… where I just… . Is this going to be it for me, am I going to be spending the rest of my life writing about cataracts and hemorrhoids… and… … ”
- John Mahoney- Copy
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“ In the Squadron to which he belonged there was a rumor that the Red Machine was occupied by a girl, by a kind of Jeanne d'Arc. He was intensely surprised when I assured him that the supposed girl was standing in front of him. He did not intend to make a joke… ”
- Baron Manfred von Richthofen- Copy
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“ When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power. ”
- Grenville Kleiser- Copy
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“ To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton. ”
- J.B. Priestley- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. ”
- Harold Bloom- Copy
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