Intensifying Quotes

#1. The criminalization and demonization of black men has turned the black community against itself, unraveling community and family relationships, decimating networks of mutual support, and intensifying the shame and self-hate experienced by the current pariah caste.

Michelle Alexander

#2. Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in.

Meghan Daum

#3. Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt people who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world by intensifying ethnic difference and separating people under names such as 'Shia and Sunni', 'Arabs and non Arabs'.

Ali Khamenei

#4. Happily, solving problems by intensifying production and increasing complexity does not always yield catastrophic results.

Joseph A. Tainter

#5. The EU must take on new responsibilities. And these new responsibilities call for intensifying the integration process.

Romano Prodi

#6. Although she felt gratitude for what her teacher had done, she still couldn't bring herself to thank him for intensifying her hidden fears.

Valerie Ormond

#7. Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#8. The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life.

Rita Mae Brown

#9. He spanks me again, and again, and again. I lose count after ten strikes, too consumed with the aching sensation spreading across the lower half of my torso. Eventually, I hear myself gasp and moan at each strike, the sting intensifying as my flesh warms with every blow.

Felicity Brandon

#10. And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.

Terence McKenna

#11. For him, the Holocaust was a laboratory gone mad, accelerating and intensifying human processes a hundredfold ...

David Grossman

#12. We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration.

Hu Jintao

#13. What's distressed me, and I think is one of the major reasons we get recurrent intensifying crises, is we seem to have lost our capacity for outrage. And it's only people getting outraged that produces really positive social change.

William K. Black

#14. Pain is not the most important tool in Dominance and submission, yet it is a most worthy tool. Pain breaks down barriers and defences. And for intensifying the orgasm? There are few superior devices a Dom has to achieve such, other than varying degrees of pain.

Nikki Sex

#15. I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

Garth Greenwell

#16. I could see the two sides hardening, their feelings intensifying, as both began to think the other not just wrong, but hideous, venal ... in league with the devil himself.

James Redfield

#17. His eyes narrowed to slits.
Power passed over her, intensifying her desire for him. She moaned and rotated her hips against him. What will you do with me now?

Lia Davis

#18. Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape, intensifying the slightest feelings of either delight or shame. No other experience makes so obvious the realities of both heaven and hell.

Marianne Williamson

#19. Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Rowan Williams

#20. The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of hisextended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.

Marshall McLuhan

#21. She pulled away from him and he let her go, the ache intensifying in his chest.

Melanie Dickerson

#22. There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

Victor Hugo

#23. Disruption is about risk-taking.
But then you become a Fortune
500 company, which is about risk
mitigation

Steve Case

#24. I was out of the restaurant business but I still had my appetite. I turned toward my future, mouth watering.

Amy Poehler

#25. Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

Kevin Crossley-Holland

#26. The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Michael Pollan

#27. And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#28. Masturbation is always very safe. You not only control the person you're with, but you can leave when you want to.

Dudley Moore

#29. Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

Rumi

#30. Objective truth is difficult to come by, and even if you have it, what you can pass on to the next person is the story that you tell about it. In order for truth to be recognized as true, it has to be wrapped in plausibility. Just the same as lies. (Another Word: Plausibility and Truth

Daniel Abraham

#31. If you don,t understand my silence . How you will understand my words.

MINE

#32. Why only hate? Where does love remain? Or at least a little decency toward other people? Exactly the same as we behaved against the Jews, we now wish to do against all other people who are in our way, to smash, crush - yes, even exterminate.

Friedrich Kellner

#33. Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#34. When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

Martin Lawrence

#35. I've got about $30,000 in chips, not near enough.

Wilford Brimley