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Quotes About Intensity

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.
~ Sir Alex Ferguson
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
~ Sir J. R. Seeley
Our passions are most like to floods and streams,The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
~ Sir Walter Ralegh
Spite has focus, a keenness that sympathy lacks.
~ Siri Hustvedt
He was an intense lover, and his zeal created in me a new sense of my own otherness. Sometimes after he was gone, I would examine myself naked in the mirror, and for an instant would imagine I saw what he saw - an enchanted body.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.
~ Mark Twain
Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love
~ William Shakespeare
I love what I'm doing. It's my life. When it's time to go, I'll probably be fighting to get out of the casket. I'll be yelling at the priest instead of a referee.
~ Lou Duva
Love. The black hook. The spear singing through the mind.
~ Louise Erdrich
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.
~ Mary Oliver
I love to hit people. I love to.
~ Mike Tyson
you have to love something before you can hate it.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.
~ Nina Simone
How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.
~ Haruki Murakami
I love to write quartets. One could say that this is a mania.
~ Heitor Villa-Lobos
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.
~ Honore de Balzac
I want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.
~ Jack White
Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.
~ Kim Addonizio
Hate and love are reciprocal passions.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.
~ Helen Fisher
People love nobody as much as they do their hatred.
~ Adolfo Bioy Casares