#heighten

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#america #changes #democratic #example #free

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#culture #everything #explain #frenzy #heightened

It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#awareness #because #completely #down #everything

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it. ↗

— R. W. Apple, Jr.

#catastrophe #country #heightened #inevitably #national

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. ↗

— Jean Houston

#accounts #artists #athletes #beings #believe

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#current #heightened #language #poetical #should

I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#both #brought #generation #heightened #i

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that. ↗

— Ali MacGraw

#any #bad #career #during #feel

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion. ↗

— Edward Hall

#heighten #i #make #order #our

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends