Intensest Quotes

#1. When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#3. Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.

Natalia Ginzburg

#5. Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit.

Stefan Zweig

#6. We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.

Walter Bagehot

#7. The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

George Eliot

#8. Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living.

Bernard Darwin

#9. Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.

Oswald Chambers

#10. The moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

John Dewey

#11. The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

Marc Jacobs

#13. I think I've had a fairly meandering career. Because I did start so young, I think that I've always chosen my parts based on what's interesting to me and what I think would be challenging or fun, or someone I've always wanted to work with or a place I've always wanted to work in or a topic.

Christina Ricci

#14. I walk over to the window and peer out at the party. I like it better from this distance, away from everyone. Safe.

Courtney Summers

#15. I'm willing to engage or indulge real ideas, but if we don't do something [about global warming], we're all going to die! What's it going to take, a big f
ing disaster with all kinds of people dying? We need to change our priorities fast.

James Cameron

#16. Well, the right-wing policy with regard to Israel - the people who don't want to deal with Arafat, who don't want a Palestinian state - the whole sort of right-wing view is consistent with the view toward Iraq. It's the same policy and the same people.

Chris Matthews

#17. Fate is an excuse for people who are too stupid or too weak to make their own future, he said.

Richard Paul Evans

#18. What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

Flann O'Brien

#19. A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.

Esther Dyson

#20. To sparkle is to shine but to dazzle is divine!

C.L. Bennett