Quotes about Intimacy

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. Votes: 6

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. Votes: 6

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. Votes: 4

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them. Votes: 4

You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart. Votes: 4

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. Votes: 4

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. Votes: 4

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. Votes: 4

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen Votes: 4

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 act alone. Votes: 4

Intimacy means "into me see"! Votes: 3

Intimacy is a difficult art ... Votes: 3

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. Votes: 3

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult. Votes: 3

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy Votes: 3

Intimacy. We hunger for it, but we also fear it. Votes: 3

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask. Votes: 3

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth. Votes: 3

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. Votes: 3

Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened! Votes: 3

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are. Votes: 3

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts. Votes: 3

Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair. Votes: 3

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source. Votes: 3

Intimacy with GOD is most exhilarating, most amazing, most exciting and most rewarding of all. Votes: 3

Seeking Intimacy with God and desiring Fellowship with Him, will make our calling in Christ sure. Votes: 3

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different. Votes: 3

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers. Votes: 3

Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick. Votes: 3

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work. Votes: 3

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together. Votes: 3

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Votes: 3

Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend. Votes: 3

Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting. Votes: 3

Intimacy with a beloved pet or special animal makes millions of people feel as though they win the lottery every day. Votes: 3

Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is. Votes: 3

Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation! Votes: 3

Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD. Votes: 3

The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire. Votes: 3

Intimacy is a wonderful thing. It's frustrating that growing up I thought it was wrong. It isn't. Exploring your sexuality is important when you're growing up. Votes: 3

Intimacy is at the heart of competence. It has to do with understanding, with believing, and with practice. It has to do with the relationship to one's work. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm. Votes: 3

Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me. Votes: 3

Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie. Votes: 3

Unlike film and TV, theater is a luxury object, but one that ordinary middle-class people can still afford. Above all, it isn't a mass medium: Live theater is a small-scale, handmade art form. Intimacy is what makes it special. Votes: 3

Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff. Votes: 3

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen. Votes: 3

If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need for sex; love is enough unto itself. When that moment comes then there is the possibility of prayer dawning upon you. Votes: 3

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. Votes: 2

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. Votes: 2

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. Votes: 2

Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable? Votes: 2

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.... Votes: 2

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. Votes: 2

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him. Votes: 2

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. Votes: 2

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God. Votes: 2

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling. Votes: 2

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity. Votes: 2

The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, and air. Votes: 2

The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love. Votes: 2

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person. Votes: 2

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment. Votes: 2

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give. Votes: 2

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. Votes: 2

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with. Votes: 2

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. Votes: 2

I was so ready to become a mom. Actually, I was ready secondarily to become a mom. I was so ready to have the intimacy and commitment of marriage. Votes: 2

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy. Votes: 2

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. Votes: 2

Forget about sex. Just play first. Dance, sing, read to each other, breathe together - communicate. Don't count on sex to be the door to intimacy. It's the other way around: first develop intimacy skills. Then make love to enjoy them. Votes: 2

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. Votes: 2

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self. Votes: 2

For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am. Votes: 2

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one. Votes: 2

San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo. Votes: 2

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other. Votes: 2

Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents. Votes: 2

When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known. Votes: 2

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. Votes: 2

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living. Votes: 2

Marriage is sacred intimacy. Votes: 0

All fruitfulness flows from intimacy. Votes: 0

Pulse proximity is not intimacy. Votes: 0

Secrets are the currency of intimacy Votes: 0

Deference and intimacy live far apart. Votes: 0

I love intimacy, always, of performing. Votes: 0

Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy. Votes: 0

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things. Votes: 0

Joint consumption doesn’t create intimacy, Votes: 0

True intimacy with God always brings humility. Votes: 0

You know what intimacy is? It's into-me-you-see. Votes: 0

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ. Votes: 0

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying. Votes: 0

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy Votes: 0

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it. Votes: 0

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy. Votes: 0

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy. Votes: 0

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion. Votes: 0

Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard. Votes: 0

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. Votes: 0

I try to stay away from forced intimacy. Votes: 0

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy. Votes: 0

All intimacy is rare-that's what makes it precious. Votes: 0

The truth within moves as intimacy of being. Votes: 0

Our intimacy with God broadens our influence on earth. Votes: 0

The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment. Votes: 0

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious. Votes: 0

With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence. Votes: 0

I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. Votes: 0

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality. Votes: 0

Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy. Votes: 0

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God]. Votes: 0

Keeping your heart open provides the opportunity for greater intimacy. Votes: 0

The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness. Votes: 0

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates… Votes: 0

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires. Votes: 0

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship. Votes: 0

Dancing, at its best, is independence and intimacy in balance. Votes: 0

Kissing's a good thing, man. It's the doorbell of intimacy. Votes: 0

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree. Votes: 0

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark. Votes: 0

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing. Votes: 0

A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy. Votes: 0

They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them. Votes: 0

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy. Votes: 0

I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy. Votes: 0

Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance Votes: 0

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy. Votes: 0

Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it. Votes: 0

To experience intimacy in marriage, both partners need to feel safe. Votes: 0

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Votes: 0

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life. Votes: 0

The abundance of fruit comes out of intimacy with the Lord. Votes: 0

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners. Votes: 0

With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'. Votes: 0

I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy. Votes: 0

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy. Votes: 0

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment. Votes: 0

If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain. Votes: 0

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older. Votes: 0

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy. Votes: 0

True intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex. Votes: 0

I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy. Votes: 0

Life is cold. People stay warm through the intimacy of a story. Votes: 0

Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch. Votes: 0

Real connection and intimacy is like a meal, not a sugar fix. Votes: 0

Physical intimacy isn't and can never be an effective substitute for emotional intimacy. Votes: 0

Everything we do for God will be the overflow of intimacy with God. Votes: 0

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit. Votes: 0

Real intimacy depends on truth - lovingly told - especially in the bedroom. Votes: 0

Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy. Votes: 0

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told. Votes: 0

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage. Votes: 0

INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. Votes: 0

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence Votes: 0

Once you achieve self intimacy & self-connection, success, peace & wealth is not far from you. Votes: 0

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex. Votes: 0

Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous. Votes: 0

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It's there in their dreams. Votes: 0

Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence. Votes: 0

That intimacy is nice, too - knowing that you know so much about someone. Votes: 0

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it. Votes: 0

True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming. Votes: 0

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me. Votes: 0

The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out. Votes: 0

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God. Votes: 0

There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters. Votes: 0

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality. Votes: 0

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking. Votes: 0

Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring. Votes: 0

We need imperfection in our relationships, else we would die from the thickness of intimacy. Votes: 0

Intensity is not the same as intimacy, although we tend to confuse these two words. Votes: 0

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge. Votes: 0

Prayer is awe before an infinite force, and yet it's intimacy with a personal friend. Votes: 0

I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa. Votes: 0

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy. Votes: 0

It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly. Votes: 0

When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers. Votes: 0

The more knowledge one person has of the other, the greater the intimacy within the relationship. Votes: 0

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. Votes: 0

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy. Votes: 0

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them. Votes: 0

Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy. Votes: 0

Over time, any deception destroys intimacy, and without intimacy couples cannot have true and lasting love. Votes: 0

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. Votes: 0

The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy. Votes: 0

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had. Votes: 0

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself Votes: 0

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language. Votes: 0

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference. Votes: 0

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer. Votes: 0

It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. Votes: 0

My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another. Votes: 0

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth. Votes: 0

I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve. Votes: 0

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude. Votes: 0

The truth is that the fever of desire in youth is fleeting disease that intimacy promptly cure. Votes: 0

A ministry of power must be the fruit of a holy, peaceful, loving intimacy with the Lord. Votes: 0

Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment. Votes: 0

The language of faith is crucial because it affords human beings the privilege of intimacy with the ultimate. Votes: 0

It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing. Votes: 0

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind? Votes: 0

Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces. Votes: 0

In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul. Votes: 0

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. Votes: 0

I want to be completely honest, I have to say that I love the intimacy of the camera. Votes: 0

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity. Votes: 0

Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back. Votes: 0

You have to get out of the boat so you can know the intimacy of walking with Jesus. Votes: 0

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me. Votes: 0

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy. Votes: 0

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. Votes: 0

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre. Votes: 0

...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy. Votes: 0

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately. Votes: 0

Live with passion and compassion, proceed with optimism, value disciplined thinking, be open to intimacy and love the mystery. Votes: 0

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences. Votes: 0

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences. Votes: 0

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview. Votes: 0

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates. Votes: 0

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. Votes: 0

Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. Votes: 0

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock. Votes: 0

We even refuse to be our true self with God- and then wonder why we lack intimacy with him. Votes: 0

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. Votes: 0

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers. Votes: 0

I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me. Votes: 0

I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children. Votes: 0

Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy. Votes: 0

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning. Votes: 0

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears "“ fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure". Votes: 0

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. Votes: 0

Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire. Votes: 0

The typewriter separated me from a deeper intimacy with poetry, and my hand brought me closer to that intimacy again. Votes: 0

It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day Votes: 0

It's good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn't lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people. Votes: 0

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine. Votes: 0

Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy. Votes: 0

I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities. Votes: 0

Love isn't material. It's energy... We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy. Votes: 0

There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter. Votes: 0

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life. Votes: 0

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s. Votes: 0

Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation. Votes: 0

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. Votes: 0

If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy. Votes: 0

Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise. Votes: 0

When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart. Votes: 0

As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things Votes: 0

The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package. Votes: 0

The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying. Votes: 0

Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself. Votes: 0

Money is of value for what it buys, and in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone. Votes: 0

Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy Votes: 0

The beauty of what I read in the gospel is the intimacy of what we're called to, that there's no middle man. Votes: 0

What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing. Votes: 0

On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table. Votes: 0

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy. Votes: 0

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe. Votes: 0

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. Votes: 0

We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people. Votes: 0

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion. Votes: 0

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable. Votes: 0

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Votes: 0

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger. Votes: 0

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible. Votes: 0

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader. Votes: 0

Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love. Votes: 0

The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded. Votes: 0

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point. Votes: 0

A deeper intimacy with God sharpens our awareness of sin, which causes a stronger need for grace and a freer offering of mercy. Votes: 0

Real intimacy; real love has to do with a joining of the mind, a joining of the spirit, a joining of the heart. Votes: 0

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships. Votes: 0

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy. Votes: 0

When I'm dancing with any woman, I immediately get rid of intimacy barriers. I just give her a big hug and crack on. Votes: 0

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. Votes: 0

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. Votes: 0

I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble. Votes: 0

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of. Votes: 0

Marriage is sacred intimacy. The husband must love, feed and care for the family. The wife must love, respect and submit to the husband. Votes: 0

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect. Votes: 0

We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow. Votes: 0

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject ... Votes: 0

Yoga is your direct intimacy with the nurturing power of Life. It is the practical means adapted to personal needs, age, health and all cultures. Votes: 0

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God. Votes: 0

Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other.... Votes: 0

The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible. Votes: 0

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215 Votes: 0

It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today. Votes: 0

I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people. Votes: 0

Our lack of intimacy is due to our refusal to unplug and shut off communication from all others so we can be alone with Him. Votes: 0

We must have a strong inner life of fellowship and intimacy with Jesus if we are going to have a strong outer life of ministry Votes: 0

I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit. Votes: 0

We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected. Votes: 0

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival. Votes: 0

Dating is a social brain teaser, as it requires constantly changing ratios of intimacy and distance, an erotic mental cha-cha choreographed by chemistry, insight, and fear. Votes: 0

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them. Votes: 0

Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can be rejected or refused. Votes: 0

And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy. Votes: 0

A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond. Votes: 0

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation. Votes: 0

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together Votes: 0

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God. Votes: 0

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy. Votes: 0

Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species. Votes: 0

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers. Votes: 0

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy. Votes: 0

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history. Votes: 0

The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness. Votes: 0

There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter. Votes: 0

A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to. Votes: 0

The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him. Votes: 0

Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy. Votes: 0

This is what intimacy does to us over time. That's what a long marriage can do: It causes us to inherit and trade each other's stories. (p.237) Votes: 0

It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you. Votes: 0

It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God. Votes: 0

Trust is the bedrock of intimacy; it is the ability to rely on someone because you believe that he or she has your best interest at heart. Votes: 0

One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied. Votes: 0

There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world. Votes: 0

Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the total and mutual gift of self. Votes: 0

For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend. r Votes: 0

To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won't be afraid of death because you're experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world. Votes: 0

Inside marriage, those feelings are pure. God wouldn't order us to be fruitful and multiply if He didn't want us to share intimacy. It fosters a special closeness. Votes: 0

Our fulfillment is not in our isolated human grandeur, but in our intimacy with the larger earth community, for this is also the larger dimension of our being. Votes: 0

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy. Votes: 0

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves. Votes: 0

Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to. Votes: 0

For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing. Votes: 0

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given. Votes: 0

: But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don't think they need that kind of intimacy with those people. Votes: 0

Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged. Votes: 0

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time. Votes: 0

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy. Votes: 0

The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship. Votes: 0

God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship. Votes: 0

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude. Votes: 0

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in. Votes: 0

There's an intimacy in listening to somebody's lies, I've always thought--you learn more about someone from the things they wish were true than from the things that actually are. Votes: 0

At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to meet that need for intimacy and love. Votes: 0

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it. Votes: 0

There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings. Votes: 0

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach. Votes: 0

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people. Votes: 0

Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an integrity, an intimacy of the universe with itself. Votes: 0

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort. Votes: 0

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy. Votes: 0

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life. Votes: 0

I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small. Votes: 0

Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions. Votes: 0

I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get more intimacy and a stronger foundation of trust. Votes: 0

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. Votes: 0

One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory. Votes: 0

Good boundaries, created by the use of good intimacy skills, keep a committed or intimate relationship lightly balanced between the needs of the individual and the needs of the relationship. Votes: 0

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse. Votes: 0

Sex is the expression of intimacy, touching and personalized care that takes friendship another step further. There is a trinity of sex, spirituality and friendship which all need to be present. Votes: 0

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate. Votes: 0

We tell ourselves that intimacy (and marriage) takes two people who are willing to work at it-but, unfortunately, we rarely have the slightest inkling of our job assignments in this project. Votes: 0

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge Votes: 0

One would hope, as well that intimacy would leave more of a mark, that more of it would remain. But it doesn't. You just end up thinking, who is this person? Votes: 0

I arise today... Blessed by all things / wings of breath, / delight of eyes, / wonder of whisper, / intimacy of touch, / eternity of soul, / urgency of thought, / miracle of health, / embrace of God Votes: 0

I've done collaborations in all my movies, and I think it's part of what I enjoy about the process. This kind of intimacy that you create. Because it becomes very intimate. Votes: 0

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship. Votes: 0

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Votes: 0

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy. Votes: 0

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you. Votes: 0

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. Votes: 0

If you want to improve your sex life as a couple, you need to examine your relationship outside the bedroom. What are you doing that is keeping you from sexual intimacy? Votes: 0

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy. Votes: 0

Tangentially, Americans, despite many of us being prone to sometimes-eyebrow-raising disclosures about our private lives on social media, still retain what I think of as reactionary views about sexuality and intimacy. Votes: 0

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon Votes: 0

Getting inside your character's head and letting the reader see the world through not just their eyes but their sensibility creates an intimacy that can't be duplicated in any other medium. Votes: 0

The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first. Votes: 0

He liked the way her hand felt in his, liked the simple intimacy of the gesture and the way it said - without the need for words - that they were together. Votes: 0

Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God. Votes: 0

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment. Votes: 0

This intimacy is not necessary; no one is compelling me to open my inmost self and lay it naked, undefended, against that of another "“ merely for the joy of the communion. Votes: 0

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. Votes: 0

We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie. Votes: 0

Lily had no real intimacy with nature but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. Votes: 0

...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley. Votes: 0

Consciousness-raising is at the very least supposed to bring about an intimacy, but what it seems instead to bring about are the trappings of intimacy, the illusion of intimacy, a semblance of intimacy. Votes: 0

I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque. Votes: 0

Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage. Votes: 0

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity. Votes: 0

I've struck up a tremendous intimacy with Conte Alberto, and we literally can't live without each other. He is the first object my eyes greet in the morning, and the last at night. Votes: 0

The Five A’s (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and of universal compassion, and the essential qualities of mindfulness practice. Votes: 0

[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage. Votes: 0

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before. Votes: 0

Most people, if they're doing really well in their career, often don't have the right intimacy with their partner, or they're doing great in their home life, but their finances are a mess. Votes: 0

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved. Votes: 0

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. Votes: 0

The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision. Votes: 0

The most frequent thing people said to me about Princess Diana when I was conducting interviews for my biography was that she could create a circle of intimacy in the middle of a crowd. Votes: 0

Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy! Votes: 0

Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable. Votes: 0

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience. Votes: 0

I think our lack of intimacy with the land has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. What we perceive as non- human, outside of us, is actually in direct relationship with us. Votes: 0

That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love. Votes: 0

Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is. Votes: 0

The only driver for his work was desire, a kind of hunger for reality, for presence, and also for intimacy, as opposed to publicity. In a very wide sense, he was interested in transcendence. Votes: 0

I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time. Votes: 0

I love the intimacy of small venues, I really do, I like that look that people have that they feel like they're special and they can hear and they can see the band as well. Votes: 0

You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you. Votes: 0

I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way. Votes: 0

People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down. Votes: 0

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. Votes: 0