Quotes of: Intimacy Keyword

Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them.

John Adams

My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.

Emraan Hashmi

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Bertrand Russell

To hold the courage to let another witness our tears, while refuting fears invitation to shield face, is to grant the most privileged of all loving intimacies to them.

Ged Thompson Liverpool Poet

Discover the fulfillment of intimate relationships with flesh-and-blood neighbors and teammates in concrete place and time, and we escape the pressure of mainstream media to channel intimacy only as virtual embrace.

Jose Panate-Aceves and John Hayes

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

Will Self

If you are her man, she will talk to you until there just aren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’re at rock bottom and think there just isn’t any way out, hold you in her arms when you’re sick, and laugh with you when you�...

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment

To us, your power comes from one simple thing: you’re a woman, and we men will do anything humanly possible to impress you so that, ultimately, we can be with you. You’re the driving force behind why we wake up every day. Men go out and get jobs ...

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment

I just read this great quote by Junot Diaz, he was talking about true intimacy, and he was saying that it was the willingness to be vulnerable and to be found out. That’s what I felt that YA did. It wasn't pretentious, and it wasn’t hiding its he...

Libba Bray

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.

Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

Even people who are entirely strange and indifferent to one another will exchange confidences if they live together for a while, and a certain intimacy is bound to develop.

Elective Affinities

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to a...

Deborah Tannen

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to lea...

Ellen Barkin

When you find real love — protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Sitting outside on a dark night, under the stars, invites confidences amongst people of all ages, and all walks of life. It invokes an intimacy you don’t find under most other circumstances.

Lifeboat

'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.'

Lexicon

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

While aloofness might fascinate others and makes them respect you, it will never allow for intimacy and profound relationships.

Rite Of Passage: Memoirs of a Survivor of the Pickup Community

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

Theory of Religion