Touched Quotes - Page 24

• I used to wash my hands every ten minutes. I couldn't step out of the house unless I had gloves on. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette unless I opened the pack myself, and I would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.

  Joan Crawford

  Hands, House, Steps

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

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• And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Flower, Wind, May

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Hunger And Thirst, Ancient

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• I think Hillary Clinton is a militarist. She is a political coward. The interesting thing about Hilary Clinton, like Bill Clinton dodging the draft, he never touched the Pentagon - she is in the same position.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Interesting, Political

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.

  Shahin Najafi

  Boys, Tears, One Day

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• He will long be remembered as one of the great Christian thinkers of our century, with a childlike faith and a profound compassion toward others. It can rarely be said of an individual that his life touched many others and affected them for the better; it will be said of Francis Schaeffer that his life touched millions of souls and brought them to the truth of their creator.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Compassion, Long

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• Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.

  Steven Blum

  Anime, People, Profound

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• I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

  Jacqueline de Ribes

  Mother, Long, Fantasy

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• Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

  Barbara Ascher

  Self, Joy, Solitary

  Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins

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• I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched in so many giddy offences as He hath generally taxed their whole their whole sex withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Sex, Thank God, Giddy

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• A poor life is lived by any one who doesn't regularly take time out to stand and gaze, or sit and listen, or touch, or smell, or brood, without any further end in mind, simply for the satisfaction gotten from what is gazed at, listened to, touched, smelled, or brooded upon.

  Clement Greenberg

  Smell, Mind, Satisfaction

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• When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you freedom and independence. Once touched by this power, you are no longer swayed back and forth by the countless opinions, ideas, and feelings which flow through you. You have found a center for your life that gives you a creative distance so that everything you see, hear, and feel can be tested against the source.

  Henri Nouwen

  Distance, Ideas, Giving

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• Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art, athletics, and music. He was a student of peace and he embodied peace. Sri Chinmoy was a great man and his life's work significantly helped to build world harmony and will continue to do so.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Art, Teaching

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• Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Want, Fortune

  William Shakespeare (2005). “Antony and Cleopatra”, Cambridge University Press

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• All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Morning, Simple, Waiting

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• Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.

  Robert Kennedy

  Passion, Men, Justice

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Being involved in NASCAR, I've learned a lot. I've met a lot of people. I've met a lot of special people. I've met some of our leaders. I've met some of the smartest people out there. I've met a lot of average folks. But they've all touched my life and made me look at things differently. I thank the Lord for my good days.

  Joe Nemechek

  Good Day, Average, Special People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Intellectually I touched God many times as truth and emotionally I touched God as love. I touched God as goodness. I touched God as kindness. It came to me that God is a creative force, a motivating power, an over-all intelligence, an ever-present, all pervading spirit - which binds everything in the universe together and gives life to everything. That brought God close. I could not be where God is not. You are within God. God is within you.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Kindness, Giving, Creative

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• Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest.

  John Lyly

  Sound, Instruments, Sweetest

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• Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in Government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Book, Reading

  1816 Letter to Samuel Kercheval, 12 Jul.

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• The Buddhists have a story about blind men trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's various parts, and each describes the elephant according to the part he touched.  That is the way we can hope to know God.

  Kent Nerburn

  Buddhist, Men, Elephants

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.118, New World Library

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• When I started to be published I thought about Margaret Bourke-White and the whole journalistic approach to things. I believed I was supposed to catch life going by me - that I wasn't to alter it or tamper with it - that I was just to watch what was going on and report it as best I could. This shoot with John was different. I got involved, and I realized that you can't help but be touched by what goes on in front of you. I no longer believe that there is such a thing as objectivity.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Believe, Objectivity, White

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• The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.

  Robert Collyer

  Beautiful, June, Extravagance

  Robert Collyer (1877). “The Simple Truth: A Home Book”

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• I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.

  Zell Miller

  Thrill, Littles, Excitement

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• Meadowlark Lemon's book Trust Your Next Shot is written by a remarkable person. I have had the pleasure of knowing Meadowlark for quite some time. He has given back to his community quite generously in addition to serving as an outstanding role model for young people. Meadowlark's career has allowed him to touch people's lives everywhere and I am so proud to be his friend. God has certainly touched his life.

  Lenny Wilkens

  Book, Careers, Knowing

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