Best 215 quotes in «intimate quotes» category

When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.

Who hasn't been told "love you?" I don't put much stock in such words because it's the "I" that gives "love you" its true essence and intimate meaning, so unless someone can bring themselves to say "I love you," don't subtract from the significance by saying something less.

You must treat an evil-doer in the same spirit as a doctor treats a patient and develop sympathy for him. It is better to maintain distance from unhealthy people and protect yourself rather than become intimate with them and later curse them for infecting you with their viruses.

...you have me,” Astrid said. “Do I?” “Yes.” That drained the anger and frustration from him like someone had pulled a plug. For a long moment he was lost, gazing into her eyes. She was very close. His heart shifted to a deeper rhythm that vibrated his whole body. There were just inches between them. He closed the distance by half, stopped. “I can’t kiss you with your little brother watching,” he said. Astrid stepped back, took Little Pete by the shoulders, and turned him so he was facing away. “How about now?

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

All politicians have three ways of expressing themselves - the intimate dialogue that can often be violent and raw, then the dialogue in front of the camera and then big public speeches.

And in the fearless, reckless pursuit of intimate love, it is not the destination it's the journey.

An English traveller relates how he lived upon intimate terms with a tiger; he had reared it and used to play with it, but always kept a loaded pistol on the table.

A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart.

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone.

Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Even though money seems such an objective topic, it can also be the most intimate, and possibly harmful, part of a relationship.

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

Good sexual chemistry is fundamental to a vibrant intimate relationship.

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.

I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

If we turn away from our sexual passion, then we freeze and beings are harmed. If we grab it, then we are burned and beings are harmed. But if we just stay close to it, walk around it, always in touch with the fact that we are sexual beings, neither identifying with nor distancing ourselves from our sexuality, then we gradually become intimate with it.

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

I never really make a film unless I feel like it's going to be personal and intimate, but also relevant to the audience.

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.

I knew that when it came time for me to finally make my own album, it wasnt going to be about being a jock. It had to be more personal and intimate.

I like A&E. I like those corny intimate-portrait things. They're so kind of ingenious and artificial and soothing.

In a lot of senses, things are definitely changing in my life, and with what's going on around me. But I still feel like the writing process is as intimate as it as before, if not more. Because I need my time more than I had before.

Is so interesting, is that when you're blindfolded and you're talking to somebody the conversation goes to places that it would never go if you could see the other person's reaction. You start talking about very intimate things. It's such an interesting experience.

I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.

It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.

I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally.

I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

I was on the central table and we were a very intimate group.

I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.