Intoxicates Quotes

#1. Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

John Godfrey Saxe

#2. Force," Simone Weil wrote, "is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates."2

Chris Hedges

#3. Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

James Francis

#4. Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.

Hal Riney

#5. Nature is upheld by antagonism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. The lawn mower attends with defeaning shudder to the tonsure; a light odor of fresh hay intoxicates the air; the leveled grass finds again a bristling infancy; but the bite of the blades reveals unevenness, mangy clearings, yellow patches.

Italo Calvino

#7. Life Life Life Life; it fascinates me, it intoxicates me, it upsets me and it surprises me. However, I love Life because I know it has a meaning in whatever consequences it puts us in. At the end of the day Life is the most beautiful teacher and I want to Romance her!

Dr. S.U.A.H Syed

#8. You can't push anything to happen if you can't push a blanket off your body at fajr.

Suhaib Webb

#9. Your love intoxicates me into an intoxication of intoxicating intoxication.

Avijeet Das

#10. A letter is a most hazardous business, the written word allows no indecision, either distance or familiarity will emphasize the tone the letter establishes, and you end up with a relationship that is fiction

Jose Saramago

#11. Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

Amelia B. Edwards

#12. You've always been stone solid until now, like Joe Friday with no Y chromosome. Now you're Nancy Drew on a sugar rush.

Dean Koontz

#13. Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

James F. Byrnes

#14. Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Aldous Huxley

#15. For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses.

Stefan Zweig

#16. Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

Tom Lantos

#17. Political power intoxicates the best hearts. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with much political power.

Hans F. Sennholz

#18. Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

Paul Hoffman

#19. Pain hurts, just as greed intoxicates and lust burns.

Neil Gaiman

#20. There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Colette

#21. I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

Alanis Morissette

#22. Aioli intoxicates gently, fills the body with warmth, and the soul with
enthusiasm. In its essence it concentrates the strength, the gaiety of
Provence: sunshine.

Frederic Mistral

#23. Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness.

Rachel Renee Russell

#24. It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

Leo Tolstoy

#25. The only thing worse than saying something boring is to quote someone else's boring saying

Lee Owens

#26. That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price
dreadful tendencies!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

Margaret Atwood