Touched Quotes - Page 21

• When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change.

  Peter Hans Kolvenbach

  Heart, Mind, May

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• On the eve of the Civil War, James Parton could write that 'the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years, dates from the moment when the soft hand of Mr. Van Buren touched Mrs. Eaton's knocker.'

  James Parton

  War, Writing, Hands

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• There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

  Brennan Manning

  Essentials, Connections, Trust In God

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.75, Multnomah

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• Surely there had been no figure leaning on the back of his chair; no face looking over it. It is certain that no gliding footstep touched the floor, as he lifted up his head, with a start, and spoke. And yet there was no mirror in the room on whose surface his own form could have cast its shadow for a moment; and, Something had passed darkly and gone!

  Charles Dickens

  Mirrors, Shadow, Gone

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.323, Courier Corporation

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• Jim Rohn's perspective on personal development is simply unparalleled. His books and appearances have touched the lives of untold thousands, and I am pleased to include him among my most admired friends.

  Don Hutson

  Book, Perspective, Development

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• That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.

  Patti Davis

  Heart, Legacy, Earth

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. December 3, 2004.

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• David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.

  David Nicholls

  Mother, Eight, Years

  "Author Imagines 'One Day' For Connected People". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 19, 2010.

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• What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.

  Michael Jackson

  Joy, Feelings, Wish

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Dec 20, 2012

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• The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Strong, Regret, Memories

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• An age is the reversal of an age:
  When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,
  We lived like men that watch a painted stage.
  What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:
  It had not touched our lives.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, What Matters, Age

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.703, Simon and Schuster

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• What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here.

  Mark Twain

  Rome, Thrill, Charm

  Mark Twain (1869). “The Innocents Abroad: or, The New Pilgrims' Progress”, p.267

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• Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
  Better that they were not touched at all.

  Ovid

  Hands, Restraint, Grows

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• In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Hands, Style

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.435

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• What was I saying? An Egyptian king
  Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.

  Allen Tate

  Kings, Twilight, Long

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.194, Macmillan

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• Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

  J. B. Priestley

  Past, People, Bovine

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• True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Wisdom, Sadness, Suffering

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.19, Regnery Publishing

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• As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Men, Two, Doubt

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• You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

  Paul Mooney

  Past, Reality, Deals

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Country music and the world will miss George Jones. He was someone who set a high standard in our industry for great music and lyrics that tapped into the emotions of the human heart at a very deep level. His music has touched the lives of country music lovers for over five decades. My prayers are with his family and I pray for the repose of his soul. May you rest in peace, brother.

  Collin Raye

  Country, Brother, Rest In Peace

  FaceBook post by Collin Raye from Apr 26, 2013

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• Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.

  Taeyang

  Tvxq, Influence, Stage

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• Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets his

  Oswald Chambers

  Heart, Rights, Independence

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.337, Discovery House

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• In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Theatre, Principles, May

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book V, Chapter V, Section 1,

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• The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many young people whose lives are touched by the pain and delinquency that so often accompanies a life of poverty. Therefore, these parents live in fear for their children's future--fear that they'll lose control, that the children will wind up on the streets or, worse yet, in jail.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Children, Pain, Wind

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• Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

  John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

  Laughter, Flying High, Hands

  "High Flight". Poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., September 3, 1941.

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• One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sister, Book, Smirk

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.98, Рипол Классик

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