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Touching Quotes:

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

topic: Real, Touching, Directors

quote photography is a way of feeling of touching of loving what you have caught on film is aaron siskind Quotes

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

- Aaron Siskind

topic: Photography, Touching, Feelings

She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.

topic: Laughing, House, Touching, Short Laugh

I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts

topic: Hurt, Choices, Touching, Touching You

German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.

- Adrienne Monnier

topic: Touching, Civility, Shows

Before, they had never found themselves broken together. Usually, it was one needing the other but not both needing each other, and so there had been a way, by touching, to borrow from the stronger one's strength.

topic: Broken, Touching, Together, Lovely Bones

Keep in touch without touching

topic: Touching

And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.

topic: Beach, Long, Touching

There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

topic: Home, People, Touching

Most of us are visual learners. Some of us are auditor learners â€“ we learn by hearing. Many of us are kinesthetic learners. We learn by doing, touching, feeling. I have found â€¦ that we need an educational model that is current, that meets the need of our students. America must understand that she needs Muslims.

topic: Educational, America, Touching, Auditors

There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are.

topic: Touching, Trying, Looks

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

topic: Thinking, Long, Touching

Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit

topic: Doctors, Touching, President

But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.

topic: Commitment, Thinking, Touching

A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit. Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room.

topic: Men, Giving, Touching, Niceties

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

topic: Touching, Firsts, Students, One Hour

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

topic: Hands, Touching, Guarantees, Many Hands, Ballots

Peter," she whispered and reached out, touching his cheek. "My little Peterbird? You flew back to me.

topic: Touching, Littles, Flew

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

source: "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.

topic: Lying, Destiny, Touching, Math Problems, Mathematical Problems

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.

- Cecilia Bartoli

topic: Simple, Voice, Touching

I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Crazy, Fishing, Touching, Fishing Boats, Right Road

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

- Charles Simic

source: Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.67, Copper Canyon Press

topic: Writing, Touching, Despair

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Touching, Needs, May, Soul Winning

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

- Chogyam Trungpa

topic: Thinking, People, Touching

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Selfish, Thinking, Touching, Quaint

A lot of times, as an actor, especially a TV or film actor, you don't get a lot of interaction, or you don't get the feeling you are actually touching someone, or someone actually cares about what you do.

- Christopher Judge

topic: Touching, Feelings, Actors, Film Actors

The body is like the earth ... as vulnerable to overbuilding, being carved into parcels, cut off, overmined, and shorn of its power as any landscape.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

topic: Cutting, Hands, Touching

Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art... It's like touching skin.

topic: Art, Touching, Skins

To most magicians, cards themselves are marvels...For one thing, they feel special in your hand. Touching them, holding them, shuffling - the whole process is almost poetic. If you're in a room full of magicians and someone just mentions the word cards, within seconds, everyone is digging into their pockets and pulling out a deck of cards. It's one of the most amazing feelings ever.

topic: Hands, Touching, Feelings, Deck Of Cards, Shuffling

I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.

- David Nicholls

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Moving, Cynical, Touching, Very Romantic, Wilder

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

- David R. Brower

topic: War, Men, Touching, Young Man

The Internet has transformed many parts of our daily lives, touching everything from how we find information to how we go shopping, get directions, and even stay in touch with friends and family.

topic: Shopping, Touching, Family And Friends

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Heart, Touching, Mind, Ability To Speak

Touching people is very rewarding to me.

topic: People, Touching

Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies....

- Denise Levertov

topic: Butterfly, Touching, Fields

After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, â€œno hablo ingles.â€

- Dennis Wolfberg

topic: Years, Touching, Psychologist

The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching picture of unavailing misery and ruin, and hopeless chaos, than the plug hat that has endeavored to keep sober and maintain self-respect while its owner was drunk.

- Edgar Wilson Nye

topic: Self, Drunk, Touching, Drunkenness

If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.

topic: Touching, Way

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

- Elizabeth Lesser

topic: Beautiful, Thinking, Touching

I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.

- Elizabeth Moon

source: Elizabeth Moon (2003). “The Speed of Dark”

topic: Ignorance, Light, Touching

Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a stereotype but it's true. British people can appear repressed in expressing emotions. Not very good at self-evaluating, or affirming situations, touching, anything like that.

topic: Self, People, Touching, Expressing Emotions, Repressed

Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.

topic: Kids, Touching, Faces

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

- Florence Welch

topic: Children, Voice, Touching, Coming Together, Singing In Church

Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It's not about that. It's about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way.

source: Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

topic: Differences, Touching, Who Cares

Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Sex, Touching, Technique

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

source: KlassikNet interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

topic: People, Touching, Feelings

Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

- George William Curtis

topic: Memories, Romance, Touching, Romanticism

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

source: Gina Barreca (2013). “They Used to Call Me Snow White ... But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor”, p.105, UPNE

topic: Laughing, Touching, Hug, Kisses And Hugs, Laughing Together

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

- Gisele Bundchen

topic: Drinking, Beer, Touching

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

- Guy de Maupassant

topic: Art, Bored, Touching

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

- H. Rider Haggard

topic: Memories, Touching, Lips

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

topic: Men, Touching, Symbols, Vertical

Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Disappointment, Giving, Touching

Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.

source: "Paisley to quit as first minister and DUP leader" by Henry McDonald, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2008.

topic: Dancing, Touching, Lust, Incitement

It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

- Ingmar Bergman

topic: Cutting, Touching, Humanity, Cutting Off

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.

- J. D. Salinger

topic: Hands, People, Touching

It goes like this: teaching is touching life

- Jaime Escalante

topic: Teaching, Touching

My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

topic: Children, Touching, Looks

As a human sentiment, it's touching to behold.

- James Crawford

topic: Touching, Sentiments, Humans

Touching Hearts, Changing Lives.

topic: Life Changing, Heart, Touching, Touching The Heart

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

- James Herriot

topic: Cat, Expression, Touching, Expressions Of Love, Claws

Perhaps I'm dead. Perhaps this is all it will be. The living will carry on in their world â€“ touching, walking. And I'll continue in this empty world, tapping soundlessly on the glass between us.

- Jenny Downham

topic: Glasses, Touching, World, Tapping

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

- Jerry Stiller

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Ideas, Touching, Audience

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

topic: Knowing, Hands, Touching, Reassurance, Primal

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

topic: Mean, Leaving, Touching

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

- Joan Sutherland

topic: Touching, World, Complicated

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

- Joe Abercrombie

topic: Men, Touching, Stories

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

- John C. Reilly

topic: Real, Character, Touching

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

- John D. MacDonald

source: John D MacDonald (2013). “Bright Orange for the Shroud: Introduction by Lee Child: Travis McGee”, p.5, Random House

topic: Touching, World, Spirit

Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than onâ€¦there was something touching and appealing about her.

topic: Touching, Steps, Remember, Asphalt

As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman...For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.

source: "World Studies for Christian Schools". Book by Terri Koontz, 2000.

topic: Blow, Office, Touching

...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...

- John M. Geddes

topic: Soul, Touching, Sensual

Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.

topic: Sympathy, People, Touching

I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was something I lived for. I never could explain why. Little, nothing touches, my fingers against his shoulder, the outsides of our thighs touching as we squeeled together on the bus. I couldnt explain it, but I needed it. Sometimes I imagined stiching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love?

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 1, 2005.

topic: Hands, Making Love, Touching

This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Heart, Hands, Touching, Left Handed

The soul, considered with its Creator, is like one of those mathematical lines that may draw nearer to another for all eternity without a possibility of touching it; and can there be a thought so transporting as to consider ourselves in these perpetual approaches to Him, who is not only the standard of perfection, but of happiness?

- Joseph Addison

topic: Perfection, Soul, Touching

Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

- Kathryn Stockett

topic: Touching, Nerves, Satisfaction

Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in...at least for 10 minutes.

topic: Powerful, Touching, Overcoming, Hanuman

When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.

- Kristen Stewart

topic: Google, Touching, Feelings

It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.

topic: Touching, Way, Subtle

Let's be clear on this, he growled. You have no idea how badly I want to be inside you. Standing up, lying down, taking you from behind. All of it. Right now. Not being able to do any of that is killing me. Literally. But strangely enough, I like just being with you. Touching you however I can, whenever I can. So no. The virginity thing is not what will keep us apart. ~Wraith

topic: Lying, Ideas, Touching, Lying Down, Touching You

â€ŽI have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

- Lauren DeStefano

topic: Ocean, Forever, Touching

Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard.

topic: Dwelling, Perfect, Touching

I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.

topic: Children, Years, Touching

Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

topic: Poetry, Touching, Charm

As soon as we surrender the principle that the state should not interfere in any questions touching on the individuals mode of life, we end by regulating and restricting the latter down to the smallest details.

- Ludwig von Mises

topic: Touching, Principles, Details

When we kissed, it didn't matter that I had been a wolf hours ago, or that I would be a wolf again. It didn't matter that a thousand snares were laid for us as soon as we left this moment. All that mattered was this: our noses touching, the softness of his mouth, the ache inside me.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Touching, Mouths, Matter

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings.

source: "The Secret Teachings of All Ages". Book by Manly P. Hall, 1928.

topic: Book, Symbolism, Touching, Hidden Truth

I'm not skilled enough to explain properly how we feel. Not only me, but I'm sure Tony and Tim and Pop feel the same way. Last year was a tough one for all of us. We felt like we had the trophy, that we were touching it, and it slipped away. We all felt guilty. We got to this spot, and we didn't let it go.

- Manu Ginobili

topic: Nba Championships, Years, Touching, Nba Finals

I told (Anze) Kopitar 'You aren't touching the puck enough. I don't like your breakout.' I think Kopitar can make magic with the puck

- Marcel Dionne

topic: Thinking, Touching, Magic

Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.

topic: Support, Touching, Doe

No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.

source: Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

topic: Father, Iron, Touching

To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.

topic: Running, Hands, Touching

Though I play at the edges of knowing, truly I know our part is not knowing, but looking, and touching, and loving

topic: Play, Knowing, Touching

I strained to remember where I was or even what I was wearing, touching my green corduroy jeans and staring at the exposed-brick wall. As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me.

topic: Wall, Jeans, Touching, Brick Wall, Corduroy

In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor,

- Maurice Herzog

source: Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.9, Open Road Media

topic: Men, Touching, World, Overstepping

I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.

topic: Men, Thinking, Touching, Restful

Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

- Mignon McLaughlin

topic: Touching, Middle, Bottom

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

- Mikhail Bulgakov

topic: Touching, Fixing, Trouble, Causing Trouble

If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.

topic: Heaven, Touching, Packs

Even touching Erdogan is a form of worship,

- Mustafa Akyol

topic: Touching, Worship, Form, Erdogan

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

- Naguib Mahfouz

topic: Prayer, Men, Touching, Always Praying

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

topic: Touching, Listening, Essentials

Touching clothes is just shopping foreplay, but it's changing. After all, you don't need to try a Mercedes to know that you'd like one.

- Natalie Massenet

topic: Shopping, Clothes, Touching

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Eye, Heart, Touching, Caverns

I don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves touching them - caging them.

topic: Animal, Touching, Purpose

Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

source: Song: Sweet Caroline

topic: Sex, Hands, Touching, Touching You

But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

topic: Rapper, People, Touching, Female Rapper

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

topic: Drinking, Beer, Touching, Drinkers, Alcoholism Funny

I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Running, Feet, Touching, Inspirational Women

A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

source: Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.44, Faber & Faber

topic: Book, Intelligent, Touching, Fondling

What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?

topic: Hands, Touching, Earth

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

- Padma Lakshmi

topic: Beautiful, Touching, Body

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

- Pamela Frankau

topic: Writing, Touching, Sides

Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.

- Patience Strong

source: Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

topic: Winter, Sunshine, Touching

It's exciting to think that something I'm involved in is touching so many people in so many cultures.

- Paul Guilfoyle

topic: Thinking, People, Touching

I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

- Paul McCartney

topic: Forever, Touching, Looks, Damn Good

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

source: "John Kinsella interviews Peter Porter". www.johnkinsella.org. 1993.

topic: Relationship, Illustration, Touching

As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.

- Pliny the Elder

topic: Names, Touching, Peaches, Persia

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

topic: Touching, Suffering, Trying, Samaritans

As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

source: "Sallustius: Concerning the Gods and the Universe". Book by Sallustius,

topic: Knowing, Touching, Obscurity

The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state.

topic: Leadership, People, Touching

The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

- Queen Victoria

topic: Powerful, Voice, Touching, Jenny, Great Events

Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

topic: Jesus, Touching, Human Nature

I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

- Rachel Kushner

topic: Thinking, Touching, Want

You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him.

- Rae Dawn Chong

source: "What’s With the Jewish-Man/Asian-Woman Connection, Anyway?" by Deborah Jiang-Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

topic: Men, Touching, Seduction

Touching souls... The best feeling in the world.

topic: Mma, Touching, Feelings

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

- Robert Briffault

topic: Ideas, Goal, Touching, Pinnacle

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

- Roberto Bolano

topic: Dream, Night, Touching

Then he went out without touching anything and put his arm around Ingeborg, and like that, with their arms around each other, they returned to the village while the whole past of the universe fell on their heads.

- Roberto Bolano

topic: Past, Touching, Village

Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn`t bother them at all. The untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere.

- Russell Means

topic: Home, Doors, Touching

The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.

- Santiago Calatrava

topic: Beautiful, Community, Touching, Something Beautiful

It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

- Sarah Strohmeyer

topic: Reading, People, Touching, Dead People

So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.

- Scarlett Thomas

topic: Making Love, Touching, Together, Quarks, Repelling

Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

topic: Morning, Touching, Noses

Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.

source: "CNN Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 15, 2001.

topic: Sleep, Touching, Firsts

This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and Ungraspable. What are we touching right here and now?

- Soen Nakagawa

topic: Touching, World, Wonderful

I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do.

topic: People, Touching, Helping

The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

- Sri Aurobindo

topic: Essence, Joy, Touching, Subliminal

On an iPhone, you touch on the digital keyboard and you know how the letter pops up and shows up bigger so you're making sure you're touching the correct letter? That's Nokia innovation.

source: "Nokia Has $6 Billion In Patents And It's Ready To Start Selling Some Of Them" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. Julу 19, 2012.

topic: Iphone, Touching, Innovation, Nokia

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

- Stephen Levine

topic: Memories, Touching, Difficult

Edward and I had not had a last grand scene of farewell, nor did I plan one. To speak the word was to make it final. It would be the same as typing the words The End on the last page of a manuscript. So we did not say our goodbyes, and we stayed very close to each other, always touching. Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated.

- Stephenie Meyer

topic: Goodbye, Farewell, Touching, Bella Cullen

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

topic: Touching, Action, Film, Animated Movies

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

topic: Writing, Talking, Touching

It's going to be a lot of work, Gideon," Eva warned him. "I'm not afraid of work." He was touching me restlessly as if it were as necessary to him as breathing. "I'm only afraid of losing you.

topic: Breathing, Touching, Gideon

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

topic: Touching, Pits, Mediocrity

My last coherent thought, as Lucas took his time kissing and touching every part of me he could reach and my body arched into his, was: oh... so this is what all the fuss is about.

- Tammara Webber

topic: Kissing, Touching, Lasts

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

topic: Eye, Touching, High Standards, Public Eye

I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

topic: Believe, Doors, Touching

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

topic: Touching, Bigger, Ends, Universal Truth

I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can't help, but touch myself.

source: Song: You're Makin Me High, Album: Secrets, 1996

topic: Touching, Helping, Imagine, Thoughts Of You, Private Parts

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth..

topic: Moving, Touching, Age

There is no work better than to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all are one; to wash dishes and to preach are all one, as touching the deed, to please God.

- William Tyndale

topic: Water, Touching, Deeds

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

- Yoshida Kenko

source: "The Tzuredzure gusa of Yoshida no Kaneyoshi". Book by Yoshida Kenkō, translated by George Sansom, 1911.

topic: Truth, Touching, Truth Is

I love the holiday season, almost as much as I love touching myself in front of orphans.

topic: Holiday, Touching, Holiday Season

When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were things that I did to make myself sadder. It was almost as if I were luxuriant in my own melancholy. Looking at the diaries and thinking about my old self, thinking about my lost youth - that was part of that project of making myself totally miserable.

- Claire Dederer

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Kids, Thinking, Touching, Really Sad

As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.

- Claude-Michel Schonberg

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Touching, Kind, Human Life

You have a long history of changes in diagnosis, from no touching to touching, to assessing acoustics and visuals. But visual is a problem, because if you're a living being you can't see beyond the surface of the skin. Now you don't have that problem. Laparoscopic surgery, inserting a camera into the body, is sometimes called "Nintendo surgery" - the best training for laparoscopic surgeries has actually been video games.

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Long, Touching, Training

These artists all have some kind of message to the public. These messages can be quite personal, maybe about their own existential situation, and it can be about suffering, it can be about questioning of one's existence and so on. They are all telling us very genuine stories, which are touching us in different ways and they are enlightening in different ways. But it's not only the stories themselves, but it's how it is done - that creates the impact of the story. It is not what is said but how it is said. I don't think you can dissociate the content from the form.

- Gunnar Kvaran

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Thinking, Artist, Touching

If you reach for the stars you may find yourself touching the sky.

- Heather Dorff

topic: Stars, Sky, Touching

We, black British, were searching - as the first generation that was born and raised here - for our own identity. We already knew what the Caribbean thing was about. We grew up with the racial tension and unrest. They were either touching your head for good luck or kicking you down the stairs for being too dark. But that was part and parcel of how we grew up in London. But in terms of our identity, it was more about us claiming it y'know?

topic: Good Luck, Dark, Touching

A sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing.

- John J. Geddes

topic: Soul, Touching, Sensual

Often touching . . . Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips . . . In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurb.

topic: Appreciation, Rip, Touching

I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same moment.

- Malgorzata Szumowska

topic: Funny Things, People, Touching, Black Humor

My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that [Adolf] Hitler has a gift of touching the important points, the essential points.

- Manfred Rommel

topic: Father, Touching, Important

One gets used to success very quickly. The surprise was how deep and enduringly I was touching people, in such different places and throughout generations.

- Michel Ocelot

topic: People, Touching, Different

To me, the most important tool is not a physical or a technical one. It's more of a cerebral one. It's your brain. It's about having an interest in experimenting musically, perhaps touching on several different genres of music. No doubt, the most important tool is the mind. It's the willingness to experiment freely.

topic: Touching, Brain, Mind, Different Genres, Different Genres Of Music

Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Funny, Touching, Sides

Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!

- Peter Travers

topic: Air, Shining, Touching, Dig Deep

I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.

topic: Powerful, Touching, Musical

The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.

topic: Fun, Touching, Pieces

The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.

topic: Hands, Touching, Feelings, Human Body

I hear from so many women who really started to pay attention to it at all times and stopped, you know, touching their faces and necks and playing with their hair and twisting their legs. I think women become more aware of it when they learn about this stuff, and you see their body language change.

source: Source: www.marieclaire.com

topic: Thinking, Hair, Touching

After Chen Zhen, I wanted to make an emotional, touching story.

topic: Emotional, Touching, Stories

There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.

- Antony Hegarty

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Touching, Feelings, Guilt, Shame And Guilt

Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.

- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

topic: Moving, Touching, Mind

In Tantrism, the first thing is having the experience of touch, of profound contact with things, with the universe, without mental commotion. Everything begins there: touching the universe deeply. When you touch deeply, you no longer need to let go. That occurs naturally.

topic: Letting Go, Profound, Touching

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.

- Rose Macaulay

topic: Home, Tired, Touching, Last Dance

We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.

- Humberto Maturana

source: "Reality; The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument". The Irish Journal of Psychology, Volume 9, Issue 1, 1988.

topic: Touching, Body, Smooth

As with anything you set out to learn in life, you don't get from point A to point Z without touching upon all those letters in between.

topic: Touching, Letters

Sports have a way of touching people.

topic: Sports, People, Touching

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

- Sofia Coppola

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Touching, Feelings, Bittersweet

I was aware that my nomination was drawing a lot of attention, particularly in the Latino world, not just in Puerto Rico. It was touching.

- Sonia Sotomayor

source: Source: eldiariony.com

topic: Drawing, Touching, Attention, Puerto Rico, Rico

Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others

- Leonard Cohen

topic: Heart, Touching, Grows

Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to seduce you into understanding. I am trying to teach you." He leaned forward until his face was almost touching mine. "Quit grabbing at my tits.

- Patrick Rothfuss

source: Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.222, Penguin

topic: Sleep, Understanding, Touching, Kvothe

I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.

- Stephen Chbosky

source: Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

topic: Thinking, Touching, Trying

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Believe, Men, Touching, Athenians

She was yours, if you'd truly wanted her," Harry continued, a pitiless smile touching his lips. "But I wanted her more.

source: Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.153, Macmillan

topic: Touching, Lips, Wanted

My advice is don't use technology primarily to lower costs. Use technology to create new, effective ways of touching the market and creating new businesses and if you do that right, the cost savings will come.

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Technology, Advice, Touching, New Business

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

- Jeffrey Tambor

source: "Actor Jeffrey Tambor On 'Transparent': 'I Loved It From The Very Beginning'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

topic: Thinking, Sobriety, Touching

Reading the word and learning how to write the word so one can later read it are preceded by learning how to write the world, that is having the experience of changing the world and touching the world.

source: Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo (2005). “Literacy: Reading the Word and the World”, p.12, Routledge

topic: Reading, Writing, Touching, Learning How To Write

All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

- Peggy Orenstein

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Girl, Hair, Touching, Grim, Pubic Hair

The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Keys, Focus, Touching

At times your entire body tingles with ecstasy as you feel the waves of psychic energy that emanate from the master's aura touching your own body.

- Frederick Lenz

source: Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

topic: Teacher, Psychics, Touching

With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President.'

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: School, Thinking, Touching

The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.

- Jerry Spinelli

source: Instructor, Volume 103, 1992.

topic: Writing, Touching, Care, If You Care

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.50, e-artnow

topic: Girl, Brave, Touching

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

topic: Men, Giving, Touching, Pathos, Artistic Genius

The most painful love there is, is the love left unshown A love that cannot be expressed, affection left unknown The love that withholds touching,afraid of what it would say And the most painful thing about unexpressed love is.., it never fades away

- Susan Polis Schutz

topic: Love Is, Touching, Affection, Never Fade, Painful Things

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

topic: Memories, Past, Touching, Our Memories, Endearing

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