Intimate

Famous quotes containing the word intimate:

“who would connive
in civilized outrage
yet understand the exact
and tribal, intimate revenge.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

“The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological—resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)