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Quotes About Intensity

I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement.
~ Graham Greene
It was like hate on a deathbed.
~ Graham Greene
I measured love by the extent of my jealousy
~ Graham Greene
The words of human love have been used by the saints to describe their vision of God, and so I suppose we might use the terms of prayer, meditation, contemplation to explain the intensity of the love we feel for a woman...
~ Graham Greene
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~ Graham Greene
I'd rather be dead or see you dead," I said, "than with another man. I'm not eccentric. That's ordinary human love. Ask anybody. They'd all say the same – if they loved at all.
~ Graham Greene
The maximum of terror for the minimum time directed against the fewest objects.
~ Graham Greene
The dead are more bloody desperate than we can even guess.
~ Graham Masterton
Ferrus opened his eyes, and the fire of the sword was alive in the silver coins of his eyes.
~ Graham McNeill
He]... watches the Joker rising from his wheelchair, the way a rabbit watches car headlights bearing down, unable to move a single, spotlit muscle. The madman's limbs appear to unlatch as though some psychotic god has chosen to give life to a complicated Swiss Army knife. The Joker's head rotates... the green lasers of his eyes target the keys at the big man's belt, and he shakes his head.
~ Grant Morrison
Your pleasures lessen in intensity the more the are repeated. Yet your capacity to experience ever more agony--is inexhaustible.
~ Grant Morrison
Your pleasures lessen in intensity the more they are repeated. Yet your capacity to experience ever more agony--is inexhaustible.
~ Grant Morrison
But what refuses to leave my mind is the image of Drew and Kate making love before the camera. Mia viewed that photograph with me and felt no embarrassment at all. On the contrary, she wants to experience the same intensity she saw there with me. More than that, she's telling me beforehand that I'll have no obligation to her. Evolutionary nirvana, Caitlin called it. God, was she right.
~ Greg Iles
Evan needed to get food, and then he had people to kill.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Death's sure and steady measure was not pure evil. It brought an intense poignant richness to every moment. To mortal men each day came once and forever and struck sure into the heart. The machines would never know that. They lived in a kind of still gray death, where no one moment meant anything, because all moments were alike. Only the dreaming vertebrates knew that life held more than that.
~ Gregory Benford
Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fanatics,' Didier mused, ignoring the rebuke, 'always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Fanatics, of all kinds, all have the same scrubbed and staring look about them, the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.
~ Dan Quisenberry
I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.
~ Jim Evans
March Madness is an incredible three weeks. I firmly believe it's the greatest three weeks in sports. You have the Super Bowl; you have the World Series.
~ Dick Vitale
In the 1995 'World War 3,' it was Dave Taylor's first WCW match. I remember looking across the ring and seeing Dave give Hogan an uppercut. Hogan wasn't used to being hit with such ferocity, and seeing the look on his face was an absolute picture.
~ William Regal
Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great deal of violence at a level we haven't seen since probably the Korean War or World War II, where you have big armies facing off against one another.
~ Mark Esper
It's fun playing against world-class players. It makes you compete harder.
~ Joe Thornton