Contact Quotes - Page 20

• Their whole life will begin to shift, from their first physical contact with you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Rama, Firsts

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• Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early modern and modern history, they have had more contact with more parts of the world than almost any other nation - it is just that this contact has regularly taken the form of aggressive military and commercial enterprise.

  Linda Colley

  Military, Taken, People

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.8, Yale University Press

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• I have seen myself lose intolerance, narrowness, bigotry, complacence, pride and a whole bushel-basket of other intellectual vices through my contact with Nature and with men. And when you take weeds out of a garden it gives you room to grow flowers. So, every time I lost a little self-satisfaction, or arrogance, I could plant some broadness or love of my own in its place, and after a while the garden of my mind began to bloom and be fragrant and I found myself better equipped for my work and more useful to others as a consequence.

  Luther Burbank

  Weed, Flower, Pride

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• The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

  Jared Diamond

  Loss, Literature, Individual

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• Man never ceases to seek knowledge about the objects of his experiences, to understand their meaning for his existence and to react to them according to his understanding. Finally, out of the sum total of the meanings that he has deduced from his contacts with numerous single objects of his environment there grows a unified view of the world into which he finds himself "thrown" (to use an existentialist term again) and this view is of the third order.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Men, Views, Order

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• I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Business, Men, Business Man

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• People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Spiritual, Fighting

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• I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.

  Gloria Steinem

  Ability, Knows

  "Gloria Steinem on why she’s going to North Korea". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. May 1, 2015.

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• There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

  Emily Carr

  Writing, Soul, Stronger

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.281, D & M Publishers

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• Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book.

  Karl Schroeder

  Book, Taken, Ideas

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• It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind.

  Paul Horowitz

  Discovery, Earth, Evolution

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• Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.

  David Bayles

  Reality, Artist, Vision

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.15, Image Continuum Press

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• God is not an elusive dream or a phantom to chase, but a divine person to know. He does not avoid us, but seeks us. When we seek Him, the contact is instantaneous.

  Neva Coyle

  Dream, Phantoms, Doe

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• My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

  William E. Gladstone

  Mind, Divine Revelation, World

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• Constant contact is what people require these days. Its tough on artists.

  Emily Robison

  Artist, People, Tough

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• Men educate each other in reason by contact or collision, and keep each other sane by the very conflict of their separate hobbies. Society as a whole is the deadly enemy of the particular crotchet of each, and solitude is almost the only condition in which the acorn of conceit can grow to the oak of perfect self-delusion.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Self, Perfect

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• The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Criticism, Purity, Judicial

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1870). “Essays and Reviews”, p.21

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• Dare we let children grow up with no vital contact with the Saviour, never intentionally and consciously put into His arms? Not to bring them to Him, not to teach them to walk toward Him, as soon as they can walk toward anyone, is wronging a child beyond words. The terrible indictment uttered by the Lord, "Them that were entering in ye hindered," and the millstone warning for offending little ones, are close akin to the deserts of those who ruin a man's whole day of life by wronging his morning hours. Not to help a child to know the saving power of Christ is to hold back a man from salvation.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Morning, Growing Up, Children

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• The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Circles, Errors

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.22

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• True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Prayer, Communication, Inward

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Healing, Circles, Broken

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.95, Open Road Media

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• prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Prayer, Trying, Ineffable

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• No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Character, Class, Long

  "Grappling with the Monster; Or, The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink" by Timothy Shay Arthur, (Ch. 4), 1877.

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• Eye contact is a method utilised by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Many women find it difficult to look a man directly in the eyes, not because of shyness, but because a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.

  Rita Rudner

  Eye, Men, Looks

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• I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and wants to talk about a 'strong' chicken she bought two weeks ago. The register tape also runs out just before her sub-total. In the public restroom, I always stand behind the teen-ager who is changing into her band uniform for a parade and doesn't emerge until she has combed the tassels on her boots, shaved her legs, and recovered her contact lens from the commode.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Strong, Two

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.9, Fawcett

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