Touched Quotes - Page 19

• We are but shadows: we are, not endowed with real life, and all that seems most real about us is but the thinnest substance of a dream,--till the heart be touched. That touch creates us--then we begin to be--thereby we are beings of reality and inheritors of eternity.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Real, Heart

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joel Myerson (2002). “Selected Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne”, p.80, Ohio State University Press

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• Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

  Epictetus

  Brother, Kindness, Two

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• Even as the needle that directs the hour,
  (Touched with the loadstone) by the secret power
  Of hidden Nature, points upon the pole;
  Even so the wavering powers of my soul,
  Touch'd by the virtue of Thy spirit, flee
  From what is earth, and point alone to Thee.

  Francis Quarles

  Soul, Secret, Wavering

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• [On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

  Mae West

  Hem, Littles, Way

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• God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

  Simone Weil

  Wealth, Rich, Mercy

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.24, Routledge

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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

  Sheila Rowbotham

  Men, Curls, Nerves

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• If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

  Meryl Streep

  Success, Thinking, People

  Meryl Streep Barnard Graduation Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• Sometimes it feels like God has reached down and touched me, blessed me a thousand times over, and sometimes it all feels like a mean joke, like God's advisers are Muammar Qaddafi and Phyllis Schlafly.

  Anne Lamott

  Life, God, Blessed

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart.

  David Swing

  Integrity, Heart, Greatness

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• Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Taken, Food

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.

  Jessica Stockholder

  Tree, Feelings, Clay

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 10, 2012.

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• My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

  George Sand

  Ambition, Mad, Done

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• Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

  Mary Astor

  Beautiful, Sex, Cutting

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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• pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dark, Roots, Charity

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.178, Macmillan

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• We are hungry for things that have touched human hands.

  Faith Popcorn

  Hands, Popcorn, Hungry

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• All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Children, Encounters, Social

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1947). “The Museum of Cheats: Stories”

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• [... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of an egg beater that] whirled independently and never touched, so that perhaps one arm never knew the other was there; yet they were together, turned by the same handle, and the cake was mixed by both.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Eggs, Cake, Together

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• Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

  Anzia Yezierska

  People, Poverty, Rich

  Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

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• The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Memories, Cells, Water

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• So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Nice, Giving, Together

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• People want an idol. They want royalty. They don't want a public servant. Hell no. They want someone to clap for and go, "Oh, he touched my hand at the rally!"

  Doug Stanhope

  Hands, Idols, People

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• People come up to me and share very personal and intimate things with me, and I am so touched by all the trust they have in me.

  Tim Gunn

  People, Intimate, Share

  "Project Runway's Tim Gunn". Interview with Tony Peregrin, chicagoist.com. September 8, 2010.

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• I was touched by the magic of music. My way to communicate was through my guitar and music.

  Juanes

  Guitar, Magic, Way

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• I had my first kiss under a tree near the school. It was with a boy named Michael who rarely spoke, but he would sometimes give me one of the cookies from his lunch. Maybe it was the gifts that made me feel special? I don't know, but when our lips touched, it felt magical.

  Paula Abdul

  School, Kissing, Boys

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