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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. -- A. B. Yehoshua
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. -- Orson Welles
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. -- George Washington
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. -- Robert A. M. Stern
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. -- Sun Tzu
Intimate acquaintance must precede real friendship -- Anne Bronte
Intimate relationships only have God's blessing if the man and woman are married. -- Sunday Adelaja
Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around. -- Daniel Craig
Intimate knowledge of God is possible if we habitually search His Holy Scriptures & translate what we find into obedience. -- George Muller
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you. -- Aristotle
Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives. -- Clayton Christensen
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. -- Harriet Lerner
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. -- Thomas Jefferson
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few. -- George Washington
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. -- Dorothy Parker
Writing songs is super intimate. It's a bit like getting naked. -- Gwen Stefani
A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. -- M. F. K. Fisher
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. -- Evelyn Cunningham
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that. -- Keanu Reeves
I have to be in a relationship in order to be intimate. I'm not the one-night-stand kind of girl. Despite the rumors. -- Kim Kardashian
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition. -- Sigmund Freud
A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride. -- Carolina Herrera
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. -- Raymond Chandler
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life. -- Maya Angelou
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner. -- Amy Bloom
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self. -- Diane Ackerman
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. -- Barbara de Angelis
Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses. -- Nikola Tesla
Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers. -- Neil T Anderson
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife. -- Paulo Coelho
The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration. -- Ole Hallesby
On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity. -- April Gornik
It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. -- Sonia Gandhi
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then -- Henry David Thoreau
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience. -- Alice Sebold
We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends. -- Gretchen Rubin
An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes. -- Patricia L. Fry
If you kiss on the first date and it's not right, then there will be no second date. Sometimes it's better to hold out and not kiss for a long time. I am a strong believer in kissing being very intimate, and the minute you kiss, the floodgates open for everything else. -- Jennifer Lopez
A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility. -- Andrea Bocelli
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling. -- Peter Zumthor
In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting. -- Caleb Deschanel
There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook. -- Steve Jobs
I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it. -- J. C. Watts
What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him. -- Joyce Meyer
Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. -- Pablo Neruda
Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event. -- Grete Waitz
I like cosy, intimate houses. -- Tori Amos
Most sex is not really intimate. -- Erica Jong
Our greatest longing is to be intimate. -- Tara Brach
You can actually be intimate with the universe. -- Diane von Furstenberg
But music-good music-was by nature an intimate act. -- Cinda Williams Chima
I love how intimate I've become with failure. -- Bob Hicok
Death is the last intimate thing we ever do. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Savior's atonement...is intimate as well as infinite. -- Merrill J. Bateman
A tree is our most intimate contact with nature. -- George Nakashima
There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone, -- Lauren Kate
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies -- Viktor E. Frankl
I've never had any intimate relationships with a dolphin. -- Morgan Freeman
We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God. -- Stefan Emunds
Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings. -- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Good sexual chemistry is fundamental to a vibrant intimate relationship. -- John Friend
It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are. -- Malcolm Bradbury
I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes. -- Joan Chen
There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. -- Havelock Ellis
The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable. -- Charlie Huston
An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself. -- Deepak Chopra
Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be. -- Faraaz Kazi
No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace. -- Havelock Ellis
My relationship with food is intimate. I don't eat and tell. -- CeeLo Green
There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends -- Maya Angelou
A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man. -- Leonard Ravenhill
In order to share intimate feelings, you have to have intimate feelings. -- Dean Martin
Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting. -- Nicholas Haslam
Your most intimate relationship is the one you have with your thoughts. -- Byron Katie
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation. -- Honore de Balzac
Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world. -- Harry von Zell
Writing novels is where I'm most comfortable. It's a very intimate experience. -- Matthew Nable
I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis." -- Susie Bright
Portraits are the most intimate photographs. The image will survive the subject. -- Victor Skrebneski
I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis. -- Susie Bright
It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark. -- William McFee
You have to be intimate with a person to know that person. -- Kevin Gates
No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed. -- Michael Cadnum
We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
There's something so familial and intimate between a boxer and his trainer. -- Jimmy Smits
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Spirituality is that place where the utterly intimate and the vastly infinite meet. -- Rick Fields
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. -- Willa Cather
Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients. -- Henry Dreyfuss
To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love. -- Anne Michaels
I was on the central table and we were a very intimate group. -- I. K. Gujral
Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person. -- Jonathan Swift
I like to think I have matured since those intimate times in Uruguay. -- Milarepa
A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart. -- Emanuel Ungaro
It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way. -- Giada De Laurentiis
...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object. -- Donna Tartt
The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part. -- William Wetmore Story
I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets. -- Tom Stoppard
We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have -- Keith Miller
You know, I play in small, intimate venues; I'm not an arena performer. -- Sondre Lerche
He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher. -- Elaine Pagels
Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices. -- John Friend
I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening. -- Vera Farmiga
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. -- Katherine Dunn
I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people. -- Gisele Bundchen
The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. -- Oswald Chambers
Usually state laws refer to touching intimate parts, it can be breasts or buttocks. -- Megyn Kelly
Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself. -- Robert Schumann
In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private -- Monica Bellucci
In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private. -- Monica Bellucci
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. -- G. Stanley Hall
Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship. -- Gwendoline Riley

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