#intensely

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches. ↗

— Jean Genet

#black #branches #country #deep #did

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#along #become #cutting #desire #desires

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#being #being the best #best #dedicated #field

You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough. ↗

— Frank Crane

#enough #intensely #know #succeed #want

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think. ↗

— Miranda Otto

#away #back #coming #going #going away

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#both #choice #city #cold #first

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#ball #book #hand #intensely #light

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#existence #flux #future #intensely #mobile

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#acting #comedy #express #feelings #fit

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#debated #discussed #grew #i #intensely