Quotes About Intensity

If you've never bled, you have no material for preaching. If when you're finished preaching you're not finished, spent, wiped out — if you haven't "given blood" — you haven't really preached.9

Las grandes pasiones parten de la antítesis.

The pupils of her eyes widened, her nostrils trembled, and when she pressed up against him tenderly and began kissing him, she bared her teeth, a graceful predator in all her unfettered cruelty.

She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed towards the wilder shores of love.

Cu o cutezan?? nebun?, de parc? încerca s?-ÅŸi recapete astfel libertatea, îÅŸi l?s? trupul s? se topeasc? în al lui ÅŸi buzele lor se unir? într-un s?rut atât de intens, încât o l?s? f?r? aer.

his eyes narrowed in what seemed to be intense pain or grief, and others when he'd shudder violently. Whichever way it happened, he was left helplessly weak as the words formed inside him, waiting to be recited into the world. The pain was an essential part of it, part of the birthing process, for this is what he was doing: verse by verse, he was giving birth to the Quran.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

Where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

The room pulsed with feeling

They're events you remember all your life, like your first real orgasm. And the whole purpose of the absurd, mechanically persistent involvement with recorded music is the pursuit of that priceless moment. So it's not exactly that records might unhinge the mind, but rather that if anything is going to drive you up the wall it might as well be a record.

She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him.

The quietness of it was weird: real fights happened without a sound track.

Shit was getting geological, yo.

He hit terminal velocity and kept accelerating

He hit terminal velocity and kept accelerating, speed

The room filled with a collective rustling of paper, like a flock of birds taking off. Heads bowed in unison. Quentin recognized this motion. It was the motion of a bunch of high-powered type-A test killers getting down to their bloody work. That was all right. He was one of them.

autistically focused right

It was easy when you were this angry, and this good, and God he was angry. And good.

Hate isn't like love, it doesn't end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it's so pure, so unconditional!

Trees were fucking mental in a fight, it turned out.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.