Quotes About Intensity

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?

My hatred gives me strength.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

Chess demands total concentration

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport

Oh ! madame, si vous êtes si instamment attendue, permettez-moi de m'éloigner, car il me serait impossible de vous parler en ce moment. Je suis incapable de rassembler deux idées ; votre vue m'a ébloui. Je ne pense plus, j'admire.

No halfway emotions can exist in a heart swollen with utmost despair.

Monte Cristo pressed on that pure beautiful forehead a kiss which made two hearts throb at once, the one violently, the other secretly.

Mi se p?rea c? m? strânge de mân? È™i c? inima este gata s? sar? din piept, "Da, tu eÈ™ti f?cut? pentru mine, n?scut? pentru mine!..." ?i eu nu È™tiam cum s? în?buÈ™ aceste cuvinte care erau gata s?-mi zboare de pe buze!

Oh, Louise, te iubesc în aÈ™a chip, încât aÈ™ fi în stare s?-mi dau sângele pentru dumneata pic?tur? cu pictur?, carnea mea fâÈ™ie cu fâÈ™ie, toat? veÈ™nicia f?pturii mele pentru o singur? clip?.

I shall see you again, if I have to set the world on fire for that. - The Three Musketeers

ambicionava voltar a ver em mim DESEJOS sobejamente intensos para submeter à realidade.

Tienes razón – dijo sin mirarla –. Soy venenoso... Pero te amo. Soy el hombre equivocado, pero te amo. Es muy pronto, sólo unas horas, pero te amo. Odio demasiado, lastimo demasiado porque soy venenoso... y te amo. Es mejor que me vaya. Buenas noches»

Love like this was all consuming. I found that I was jealous of the strangest things - sunlight, streets, curtains, even her clothing, anything that was close to her.

But can you measure someone's love? I want to know. You think you can measure love? She's kind not to laugh at me...No scale would be strong enough, she tells me. It would break to pieces under the weight.

He could burn her up alive; he could do it in a minute flat, and that's not easy to forget.