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Quotes About Intensity

I always go forward and try for the knockout or submission. I'm going to finish my opponent. I'm not going to try to win by decision.
~ Glover Teixeira
I'm a guy who looks to put the pressure and come out with the knockout or the submission.
~ Glover Teixeira
It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
~ Vidya Balan
There's definitely no subtlety in what I do. When you want to get your face melted, you come to a Grace Potter and the Nocturnals concert.
~ Grace Potter
You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.
~ Frank Crane
In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed - that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact.
~ Jane Lindskold
I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.
~ Tupac Shakur
Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and sweet as love.
~ Turkish proverb
Cierto es que este mal no era homogéneo, de otra manera la vida no hubiera sido posible: yo seguía encontrándome con gente maravillosa, o me aprovechaba de gestos maravillosos de quienes no siempre los tenían. En ausencia de una vida pública decente, la vida privada latía a plenitud (aun cuando en esos momentos yo no me daba cuenta de ello): los amores, las amistades, las pasiones intelectuales o artísticas, eran intensos
~ Tzvetan Todorov
To experience something for the last time can be more intense than it was the first.
~ Unknown
A similie: Like a duck on a June bug.
~ Unknown
OJ says our father lives somewhere between the self-satisfaction that his success has made us soft and disgust that we are unacquainted with the brutal intensity of a world that he has effectively tamed for us.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
I have never had the guts to say it, but I've always hated the Reverend Oluminde, Bishop Okereke style of preacher. They speak and laugh too loud. They project warmth like an industrial heater blasting the closest thing to them with too much intensity instead of radiating like the sun that simply draws you into its warmth. 
~ Uzodinma Iweala
Tulta munille!
~ Unknown
He was lying with his eyes closed--it was easier to talk that way and he spoke with that searing, convulsive anger that surfaces when there's no one to direct it against.
~ Unknown
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
~ Valentino Rossi
Some people say soccer's a matter of life or death, but it isn't. It's much more important than that.
~ Unknown
What happens next leaves me speechless. "I still don't have a proper love gift for you yet, im amrevu," Aeson says, watching me with intensity. "However, I have this—" He reaches with his right hand to untie the black armband around his left sleeve. The black length of silk comes loose, and he folds it carefully into a square and hands it to me.
~ Vera Nazarian
Había parejas que se querían de ese modo, se querían odiándose toda la vida.
~ Unknown
As training age advances, that paradigm has to shift and the overload has to come from intensity.
~ Unknown
Conceptually, the energy systems are intensity dependent, not time dependent.
~ Unknown
The light shining through was a rainbow from hell.
~ Vernor Vinge
I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
~ Veronica Roth
I have such a dark mission, loving you.
~ Vicente Aleixandre