Intensifier Quotes

#1. As soon as you add an intensifier, you're turning an all-or-none dichotomy into a graduated scale.

Steven Pinker

#2. Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.

Michel Foucault

#3. Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.

Teju Cole

#4. What would be the best therapy? Punching the evil sod in the knob! [ ... ]
It doesn't undo it though. You'd feel good for a second and then there's just emptiness. It's like bingeing. After the chocolate there's the wrappers.

Rae Earl

#5. It's the way we deal with what Fate hands us that defines who we are.

Lisa Graff

#6. A proposal is a document that says you understand your client's needs. It says you know how to help and that you can, and it sets the expectation for a better future.

Nathan Powell

#7. Sister Katherine smiled. 'Such arrogance. You did not choose God, Maria. He chose you. For you, as his servant, there is no such thing as choice. You must do what is right. You may do no other.

Jack Higgins

#8. Only marriage combines all three forms of companionship - spouse is family, best friend, and permanent companion. This is why it is widely held that while the death of a child is the most painful loss, the death of a spouse is the most disorienting one.

Dennis Prager

#9. I was a very scared child.

Christopher Bollen

#10. I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money.

Moby

#11. I'm heavily medicated yet happily manic, I've been stuck on hypo mania for years.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#12. Politeness never was one of your strong points"
"Bitch was always one of yours though

R.S. Burnett

#13. Release what is good.

Philip Yancey

#14. I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Richard Madden