| "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 courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." »George Washington |
| "My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." »Orson Welles |
| "Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly." »M. F. K. Fisher |
| "The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." »James Baldwin |
| "The price one pays for pursuing a profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." »James Arthur Baldwin |
| "To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations--such is a pleasure beyond compare." »Kenko Yoshida |
| "No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington |
| "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 |
| "O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know." »William Cowper |
| "When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "What do I believe As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand." »Adlai Ewing Stevenson |
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