(1141 quotes found)
“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.”
Winston Churchill
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees”
C.S. Lewis
“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.”
William Hazlitt
“My method can be nothing, or the most intense, bizarre preparations you've ever seen.”
Christian Bale
“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.”
Thomas Mann
“It's true that watching foreign films is labor-intensive - What they require, in short, is that you be in the mood”
Daphne Merkin
“Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.”
Charles V
“For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.”
Camilo Jose Cela