Top 64 Being Intimate Quotes
#1. So many today want merely to be familiar with Jesus in contrast to being intimate with Him.
John Paul Warren
#2. With a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.
Donna Tartt
#3. The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.
Michael Sheen
#4. I find there is something very intimate about being the voice in someone's ear when they're driving.
Tim Curry
#5. Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better
I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#6. Complete salvation is being able to be so intimate with God that He's your very best friend.
Andrew Wommack
#7. Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
William O. Douglas
#8. It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.
Russell Crowe
#9. Truth was she liked that he came after her. She liked the thought of being under submission to him in an intimate way. It was a welcome desire which Wharick alone sparked.
Madison Thorne Grey
#10. Sloppy Firsts perfectly captures the turbulent roller-coaster ride that is being a teenager. This is an (at times) intimate, painfully honest peek at a girl's coming of age. Getting to know Jessica was like meeting a new best friend. I miss her already.
Atoosa Rubenstein
#11. That was an amazing night in the city. But, there's something rare and intimate about being here - just you, me, the ocean, and the moon.
Nicole Gulla
#12. Father, I want to continue to always grow into a more intimate relationship with You. Expose the areas of my life that hinder me from being Christlike, and cause my life to reflect the character of my precious Savior and Lord.
John Bevere
#13. As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.
Jacques Lacan
#14. What's that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.
Deb Caletti
#15. Yeah. Art is a lot like sex. It's intimate and personal. It's about being laid bare. About pushing boundaries. It's about making our senses come alive.
Marie Sexton
#16. The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
Alice Sebold
#17. Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life ... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.
Ryan McGinley
#18. There are a lot of editorials that have nothing to do with anything like that. But I was just thinking of that sense of prose as being very responsible and perceptive, thoughtful, intimate, and contriving a quote statement.
Robert Creeley
#19. Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.
Mark Nepo
#20. Sharing the same passionate love with another person, gives a feeling of being alive! The experience of something real, is unforgettable.
Ellen J. Barrier
#21. Being in front of the audience, letting my audience see me in person - it is real intimate, you get to make them laugh and cry, they get to feel you. And then afterward, we go out and do a meet-and-greet session with the fans. It was just a wonderful experience. I really, really enjoyed it.
Vivica Fox
#22. At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband.
Brenda Perlin
#23. The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
Matsuo Basho
#24. I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.
Khaled Hosseini
#25. The Christian life is not about all the things we do for God
it's about being loved by Him, loving Him in return, and walking in intimate union and communion with Him.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#26. I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'
Cathy Rigby
#27. When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis.
Robert Fulghum
#28. Any time we have the opportunity to play in a more intimate room, there's such a huge aspect of our set just built for that. And beyond that, we just love being that close to our fans.
Ryan Lewis
#29. An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#30. I am a strong believer in kissing
being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates
open for everything else.
Jennifer Lopez
#31. I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams.
Oskar Kokoschka
#32. There's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
Brad Meltzer
#33. I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through.
Sarah Ruhl
#34. I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.
John Gibson Paton
#35. It was no wonder my love life was so messed up when the most profound and intimate moments were always being interrupted by dire situations
Richelle Mead
#36. The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.
Charles Stanley
#37. The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
Andrea Bocelli
#38. I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
James Altucher
#39. I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
Gail Sheehy
#40. In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard.
Madelaine Standing
#41. I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.
Angie Martinez
#42. Nothing felt real, nothing felt intimate or close or true - it all
seemed like a terrible movie of my life that I was being forced to watch from hundreds of feet away.
Sierra Simone
#43. The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.
Stendhal
#44. On the night bus, I felt as though parts of other people were going into parts of me I didn't even know existed. I felt like I was being more intimate with members of the night-bus community than I'd ever been with anyone in my whole life.
Helen Fielding
#45. The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
Virginia Postrel
#46. E-mail is a whole new way of being friends with people: intimate but not, chatty but not, communicative but not; in short, friends but not. What a breakthrough. How did we ever live without it? I have more to say on this subject, but I have to answer an instant message from someone I almost know.
Nora Ephron
#47. Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.
Rabindranath Tagore
#48. The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to the universe, and the Ground of all being, the aim of our life.
Paul Tillich
#49. Was there anything more intimate than being truly seen?
Janice Y.K. Lee
#50. Anyone who enters into an intimate relationship with God can see God do exceptional things through his or her life. The outcome does not depend upon a person being unusually gifted, educated, or wealthy. The key is the indwelling presence of God doing unusual things
Henry T. Blackaby
#51. I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music.
Grimes
#52. Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
Cynthia Heimel
#53. Seek me not in your richness, O dear, search not amidst the words talkative. Find me in the moments of loneliness, in the silence of your mighty soul. Within the void of intimate being this is me, the majestic blue - the cessation of all; and here your are in the celestial path.
Preeth Nambiar
#54. When we learn how to be in an intimate relationship without abandoning our sense of self, when we learn how to be kind without being self-sacrificing, when we learn how to cooperate with others without betraying our standards and convictions, we are practicing self-assertiveness.
Nathaniel Branden
#55. There was something almost painful about that, the intensity of being so vulnerable and so intimate with him.
Amanda Hocking
#56. It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
Rita Dove
#57. I kind of just want to get to know people and I have a genuine interest in people that listen to my music. I've just always felt like that. I think it's from the days of playing guitar to a few people and being very conversational and very intimate and I've always wanted to keep that vibe.
Ellie Goulding
#58. God calls you to delight in Him because nothing will satisfy your soul like being close to Him in intimate fellowship.
Charles F. Stanley
#60. O bliss of the collector, bliss of the man of leisure! Of no one has less been expected and no one has had a greater sense of well-being than ... a collector. Ownership is the most intimate relationship one can have to objects. No t that they come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them.
Walter Benjamin
#61. Couldn't he have come out and greeted her like a civil human being instead of lurking from his kitchen while she shared a clearly intimate moment with his brisket?
Tracy Ewens
#62. Love is not being married or in a romantic relationship. Love is intimate communion with another's soul.
Cloris Kylie
#63. I left Cuba when I was two years old. They took away my country, they stole the most intimate thing a human being can have. How could I forget that Fidel Castro was the person who did me so much harm?
Gloria Estefan
#64. Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It's steady work. It's a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way ... where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust.
Kelly Rowan
