logo

Quotes About Intently

The great black scavenger flies parallel now, each of us speeding, intently and driven, toward what we've been taught to do with death.
~ Ada Limón
However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.
~ Daniel Kahneman
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night.
~ James M. Barrie
She wished she could understand her reaction to him. Why, her heart was pacing a wild beat again. Madelyne dared a quick look up and found Duncan was watching her intently. He looked so handsome. She wanted him to be ugly.
~ Julie Garwood
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
~ Haniel Long
listening intently. He shook his head. 'There is no dream in here
~ Roald Dahl
Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.
~ John Mackey
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises." ~ J. M. Barrie
~ Loren W. Christensen
I watched them with the eyes of a hungry ghost.
~ Anne Rice
whispered, and then he gazed, speechless, at the vampire. The vampire was utterly white and smooth, as if he were sculpted from bleached bone, and his face was as seemingly inanimate as a statue, except for two brilliant green eyes that looked down at the boy intently like flames in a skull.
~ Anne Rice
No one spoke, and Kit realized they were all listening as intently to his quiet conversation with Murchaud as if they leaned close over a candle-lit table in some table, whispering conspiracies.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Alpha's muzzle curled in disbelief, but he went on watching Fiery intently. "Mad? In what way?" "Insane," Fiery told him. "Like a dog with the water-madness"—at this several Packmembers gasped and growled nervously—"but not that. His jaws foamed and he had fits, but he was in control. Very much in control. He rules his Pack with fear.
~ Erin Hunter
It was an earthquake, tearing at the sons of America, trying to swallow them up. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful sons, that women had reared, had kissed and screamed at, and that fathers had stared intently in their cots, to see themselves in the wondrous mirrors of their babies.
~ Sebastian Barry
His head was on one side, listening to me, and that was such sweeness to me, that he listened intently. No one, it seemed, has ever listened like he does.
~ Sue Woolfe
I'm not an expert or a trained ballistician. But it is a subject I've studied intently for 50 years, so I may know a thing or two. In my opinion, the JFK investigation was poorly handled.
~ Stephen Hunter
I was too young then to see that she was staring into the great mystery just as intently as her sisters, her gorgeous, brown and white, philosophic sisters.
~ Billy Collins
Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.
~ Milan Kundera
listen so intently that people bring forth their own wisdom.
~ Gay Hendricks
Her gaze collided with the duke's. His eyes were a clear, pale green. Why was he staring so intently when there was hardly another woman less interesting than she?
~ Carolyn Jewel
Three yearswe waited intently for the heraldclosely watchingthe pines the shore and the stars.
~ George Seferis
He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right.
~ Jack Kerouac
wherever it had been, and however it had come, it was here now, and it was watching.
~ Laini Taylor
It looked a little bit like a monkey, but bigger and not quite so hairy, apart from a patch of floppy brown fur on top of its head. It had nimble little paws, which were holding something that it was gazing at intently. Parts of it were wrapped in something like a cocoon made of jaguar fur and deep red silk.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.
~ Patrick O'Brian