Intimate Quotes

You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Thus not only the mental and the material, but the theoretical and the practical in the mathematical world, are brought into more intimate and effective connection with each other.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?

A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart.

The truth about intimate relationships is that they can never be any better than our relationship with ourselves.

Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject.

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.

To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts.

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

Usually state laws refer to touching intimate parts, it can be breasts or buttocks.

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.

Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be.

Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

I don't think that you should be per­fectly candid and frank about the intimate details of your personal life with the public at large. Subsequently, it creates consider­able personal problems.

I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

Accepting what we're given is a practice in being present to everything beyond us that lets us become intimate with the nature of life.

I do films to be behind the camera, not in front of the camera. I'm sure I say very intimate things about myself in all my films, but it's better to say it not too directly, to be hidden behind a woman.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer.

The most intimate question we can ask, and the one that has the most spiritual power, is this: What or who am I?

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.

There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn't start to get that until I turned 60.

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.

The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that come forth from that love.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.