Intensity Quotes

• Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

  

  Rick Renzi
  • Intensity
  • Preparing
  • Reduce

• The idea came to me that I was, am, and will be, but perhaps will not become. This did not scare me. There was for me in being an intensity I did not feel in becoming.

  

  Nina Berberova
  • Idea
  • Becoming
  • Intensity

• When working out, length is not a substitute for intensity.

  

  Bill Loguidice
  • Intensity
  • Length
  • Working Out

• For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

  

  Cesare Beccaria
  • Men
  • Should
  • Crime

• I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.

  

  Keith Crown
  • Subjects
  • Intensity

• I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

  

  Carrie Snodgress
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Position

• The intensity with which Janis Joplin sings, you simply can't find a singer like that. It's almost scary the amount of emotion and energy and passion she puts into her performance.

  

  Michael Wadleigh
  • Emotion
  • Performance
  • Amount

• I woke up; I go to the window, open the curtain. I don't know why! In the middle of night, usually I don't do that. Something drove me... And then I was freeze-framed! The lightship showed one light after the other, in such intensity!

  

  Nina Hagen
  • Night
  • Light
  • Window

• To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Energy
  • Luck
  • Intensity

• Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Materials
  • Surface
  • Smooth

• I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

  

  Nina Berberova
  • Life
  • Sense
  • Intensity

• I never could see that delicacy of constitution is pretty, either in plants or women. No doubt there are many lovely flowers to be had by heat and constant coaxing, but then for each of these there are fifty others still lovelier that will gratefully grow in God's wholesome air and are blessed in return with a far greater intensity of scent and colour.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Women
  • Blessed
  • Gods

• I am professional. Hardworking. Committed. Loyal. Also sentimental. But I had changed a little over the years. There was a bit of a heaviness to my soul because of the intensity of my job.

  

  Meredith Vieira
  • Committed
  • Sentimental
  • Heaviness

• I just don't think our intensity was there. We were there, we knew what they were going to do, we were ready to play but I just don't think our heart was in it.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Heart
  • Ready
  • Intensity

• When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Christ

• To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Natural
  • Libertarian
  • Relative

• Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Football
  • Sometimes
  • Games

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