#tens

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#enormous #evil #exist #makes #menacing

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#dance #exposing #ideas #intense #itself

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. ↗

— Angela Davis

#arise #between #certain #contributions #current

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#burden #else #lightens #useless #who

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny. ↗

— Jim Dine

#being #funny #i #i do #intensity

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#attracted #between #carved #i #i am

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#intensely #literature #live #more #ourselves

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#being #completeness #course #desire #even

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens. ↗

— David Duchovny

#darwin #going #listens #need #nietzsche

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#campaigns #depend #domestic #harassment #image