Intensity Quotes - page 2

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light. (Jeanette Winterson)
I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political debate. I have been sorely tempted to launch a military attack on foreigners, and have felt the frustration of having to negotiate with allies or even former enemies to reach a consensus instead of taking more decisive unilateral action. View quote
Jimmy Carter
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. View quote
Henry A. Wallace
Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life. View quote
Kay Redfield Jamison
I can no longer work outside because of the intensity of the light. View quote
Claude Monet
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. View quote
Thomas Merton
Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy, tends to lose its realism and take on the unnatural glittering intensity of hallucination. View quote
Northrop Frye
The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge with a good deal of emotional disturbance in their wake, provides the chief analogy between prophecy and the arts...Some people pursue wholeness and integration, others get smashed up, and fragments are rescued from the smash of an intensity that the wholeness and integration people do not reach. (Northrop Frye)
Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance. View quote
Jackson Pollock
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity. View quote
Carl Jung
People happy in love have an air of intensity. View quote
Stendhal
The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world. View quote
Louis Brandeis
The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity. View quote
Alan Hovhaness
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible, the other romantic; one is good-humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power. View quote
J. William Fulbright
It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me. View quote
Bram van Velde
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the largest and most challenging forms with music of great emotional power and technical invention...All his works are marked by emotional extremes – tragic intensity, grotesque and bizarre wit, humour, parody, and savage sarcasm. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It is difficult to explain this to those who do not know our ways. They cannot easily be made to understand why we consider that the intensity, passion, intimacy, informality and spontaneity of our Debates constitute the personality of the House of Commons and endow it at once with its focus and its strength. View quote
Winston Churchill
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? - how far? - how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern. (Aldous Huxley)
The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. View quote
John Keats
He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The power of our intention and the energy it unleashes are dependent on our levels of coherence and intensity. The affirmation of our positive intentions in thought, feeling and action increases the power of our abilities. Nonetheless, it is important to appreciate that the matrix of physical, emotional, and mental levels of consciousness through which our personal and collective intentions and choices are explored and experienced require a "health warning” on interpreting the Law of Attraction too simplistically. View quote
Ervin László
Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity. View quote
Placido Domingo