Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.
The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.
Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.
L.A. can be intense, but the second you get over the hill into Calabasas, your stress level immediately drops because it's so peaceful and safe. Sometimes I really miss it.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.
Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
L.A. is an intense industry town, and there's a side of it that's superficial, but I surround myself with the kind of people who don't let me get sucked into that.
One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness.
For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.
A lot of my intensity in wrestling was due to my mental preparation before the matches. I got myself into a different world.
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.
