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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

George Washington

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

William Orville Douglas

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

Rita Dove

What he has to say about the intimate details of his relationship with anybody is between him and his family, and him and the people that console him.

Abbe Lowell

The intention is not just sexual, but it's intimate in a sacred way.

Chenzira Kahina

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M. F. K. Fisher

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

William McFee

His voice was a intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Dorothy Parker

I learned to view God on a more intimate level. This experience ignited the passion of my calling.

Meagan Fields

Something in the last few months has got them filming the most intimate, graphic attacks -- like up-close and personal.

Michael Ware

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

Harry A. Blackmun

It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.

Al Jones

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Homer

It seems like people become intimate more quickly (in cyber-relationships).

Nan Mccarthy

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.

Harry A. Blackmun

A transmission, which cannot be completely ruled out, would only be possible through very intimate contact with an infected animal.

Thomas Mettenleiter

Baseball in this setting is much more intimate.

Dave Mcclenahan

How strange yet fitting that the future of nature's greatest creature, man, depends upon an intimate cooperation with nature's least, the germ.

Philip Tierno

After the concert, people said it was almost too intimate to watch us play.

Janine Jansen

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

Mike Farrell

People are psyched to be there. They're really excited and it's an intimate show.

Garrison Starr

It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.

Max Webber

We approached the Hilton. We were looking for a nice, intimate venue, an intimate place. It was our first choice.

Kathi Glist

With the smaller shows, it's a more intimate experience, so people don't seem to balk at that. You pay more to get closer to the artist.

Ray Waddell

An infection of humans, which theoretically cannot be ruled out, could probably only occur with very intimate contact to infected animals.

Thomas Mettenleiter

An intimate voice with wonderful pathos.

Mike Gill

Harold and Maude: An Intimate Musical.

Tom Jones

It wasn't intimate, it wasn't friendly.

Lee Elliott

It's intimate, like a boudoir. You can pre-order the Champagne and have it waiting for you when you arrive.

Mark Fraser

Competency means having the technical understanding ... teaching the intimate details.

Todd Brown

We wanted to make it an intimate evening at the Crown Room.

Roy Strong

I'm not fond of any of my films in an intimate way, but Gregory's Girl would be number 4 on my list.

Bill Forsyth

He never claimed to be an intimate insider in the Republican primary. It would take an outsider to challenge DeLay.

Michael Stanley

We wanted to go from the most intimate sound to the largest, in the space of a heartbeat.

David Harrington

I like those acoustic, intimate shows - as well as ear-bleeding rock.

Sheri Giordano

I think we have the perfect, intimate venues for chamber music.

Mark Sforzini

The hope was to give the fans an intimate setting, ... Of course, another goal was to increase revenue.

Mark Jackson

This reduces diversity; it does not increase it. A choice is being eliminated — the choice to attend a small, intimate art school.

Bill Barrett

They are so good to each other, so supportive. I don't know if they've already had sex but they've been pretty intimate with each other and that's OK with me.

Maureen Graham

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

We might play more intimate songs in an intimate setting.

The Sandman

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

It's very intimate. They're playing to each other and letting the audience in on the secret.

Ryan Raichilson

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Edward Hopper

When I stepped out of the campaigns, we decided we'd focus on the word intimate and capture a model in a moment.

Elle Macpherson

He wants to have intimate contact. His parents want him to date, his father wants him to get married.

Zeno