Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"You have to be intimate with a person to know that person."
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Intimate
153 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novelist
"Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature."
Ada Lovelace
Mathematician, Writer
"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."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"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."
Byron Katie
Author, Speaker
"Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts."
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"God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies"
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"To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
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"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?"
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"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."
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"For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone."
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"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."
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"I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin."
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"When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you."
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"the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions."
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"What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote."
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"In order to share intimate feelings, you have to have intimate feelings."
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"I took you to an intimate restaurant, then to a suggestive movie. There's nothing left to talk about, unless it's horizontally."
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"We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have"
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"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."
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"We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important."
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"Be polite to all, but intimate with few."
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"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
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"Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person."
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"The deep, intimate connection I am searching for is within me. I am all that I am looking for. I am love. All is well."
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"I do like choral music a lot, the voice is a pretty strong instrument - out of all the instruments, it's the most intimate. There's nothing you can do about it, it just feels so good when you hear a bunch of voices sing together."
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