Quotes About Intimate Connections

#1. Medicine asked something extraordinary of nurses: to forge intimate connections with another person for hours, weeks, or months, to care thoroughly and holistically - and then to let that individual suddenly go, often never to be heard from again.

Alexandra Robbins

#2. Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

Douglas A. Blackmon

#3. Our food is among the most intimate connections we make with the earth.

Gene Baur

#4. I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

Aleksandra Mir

#5. Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

Charles Baudelaire

#6. Banks like Goldman remain largely shielded from the impact of public opinion because while the public's only link to power is through the clumsy and highly imperfect avenue of elections, a bank of this size has a whole network of intimate connections with direct access to policy. In

Matt Taibbi

#7. Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

Thomas Merton

#8. Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.

Olaf Stapledon

#9. Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.

Shana Alexander

#10. Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.

Bertrand Meyer

#11. The deep, intimate connection I am searching for is within me. I am all that I am looking for. I am love. All is well.

Louise Hay

#12. The stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color.

Raymond Kelly

#13. I think there are differences between men and women. There is more of a softness to women than there is to men, especially when it comes to those more intimate emotions: feeling love, feeling familial connections.

David Bezmozgis

#14. When we enjoy an intimate connection with a lover, we form invisible cord connections between our chakras into their chakras.

Catherine Carrigan

#15. As an introvert, you crave intimate moments and deep connections--and those usually aren't found in a crowd.

Jenn Granneman

#16. My overflowing leisure handed me the world and at the same time prevented me from seeing it. Just as the sun, filtering through the closed venetian blinds on a hot afternoon, makes the whole magnificence of summer blaze in my mind; whereas if I face its direct harsh glare it blinds me.

Simone De Beauvoir

#17. Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy.

Amie Kaufman

#18. Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn't beating.

Elizabeth Scott

#19. In no other sport is the connection between performer and observer so intimate, so frequently painful, so unresolved

Joyce Carol Oates

#20. Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have most intimate historical, cultural and biological connections, is that associated with food plants.

Cary Fowler

#21. My goal is one individual gold. I know how hard it is: you have to have a good day; there can also be some problems with the weather.

Marit Bjorgen

#22. The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

Lord Chesterfield

#23. Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

Ada Lovelace

#24. I'm taking better care of myself by eating healthy, exercising and doing my best to keep my stress level down as well as role modeling good habits for my kids.

Monica Potter

#25. Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self.

Amy Bloom