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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! -- Emily Dickinson
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. -- Patrick Kavanagh
Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships. -- Patti Davis
I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman. -- Ingrid Bergman
I don't like the outside world to intrude when I'm making a film. I like to either see my family or work, but I don't like to go out. -- Jodie Foster
Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives. -- Jay Chiat
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. -- E. O. Wilson
I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment. -- Ian Anderson
I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family. -- Gary Ackerman
The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark. -- Julia Glass
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now. -- Patti Davis
It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out. -- Kristin Gore
No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. -- Paul Tsongas
I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write. -- J. D. Souther
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?' So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world... It's peculiar. -- Alan Moore
Do not allow things to intrude from outside. -- Sri Aurobindo
Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science. -- K.W. Jeter
I'm gonna spread out over America intrude my proud blackness all over the place. -- Mari Evans
A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it. -- Robert Ludlum
No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend. -- John Marsden
For me it's not a question of whether we should intrude in family life, but how and when. -- Margaret Hodge
Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her. -- Milan Kundera
In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be. -- Mark Barrowcliffe
Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway - we just disguise them as logic. -- Edward de Bono
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. -- George Santayana
Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung! -- Stonewall Jackson
Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude. -- Mary Balogh
They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels. -- John Calvin
Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics. -- George Will
In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans. -- Edward Kennedy
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools consult interpreters in vain. -- Jonathan Swift
'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude. -- John Clare
I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in the darkest night, And a social crowd in solitude. -- Tibullus
If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free? -- June Jordan
In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;Where all the noises, that on peace intrude,Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee,Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude. -- John Clare
As you open your awareness, life will improve of itself, you won't even have to try. It's a beautiful paradox: the more you open your consciousness, the fewer unpleasant events intrude themselves into your awareness. -- Thaddeus Golas

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