Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.
The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.
The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.
I fell in love with the classical crossover genre when I was on AGT. I found out that I could use the microphone to establish a deeper intimacy with the audience. I did not portray an opera character; I was my true self. I would sing a four-to-five minute piece for the audience and then I could talk to them and say "Hi" to them! I would not need to act out scenes where my character was dying from tuberculosis or killing somebody else on stage, I could have a nice conversation with them.
Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.
The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.
The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human.
The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty. Emotions to a world of intimacy. It takes a universe to make a child both in outer form and inner spirit. It takes a universe to educate a child. A universe to fulfill a child.
I get asked, 'What do you miss most about being a pastor?' I think it's the intimacy, the incredible gift of intimacy. You go through death with somebody, with their families, and there's an intimacy that comes through that that is just incomparable.
It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.
It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?
They spent their time doing nothing. . . they let intimacy fuse them.
Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you have crossed paths with all your life.
I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for heshe is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written. . .
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places.
Women want to talk first, connect first, then have sex. For men, sex is the connection. Sex is man's language of intimacy
I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.
Jesus invites us to abide in his love. That means to dwell with all that I am in him. It is an invitation to a total belonging, to full intimacy, to an unlimited being-with. The light of the Spirit reveals to us that love conquers all fear.
Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.