Intense

Famous quotes containing the word intense:

“Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

“It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one’s own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)