Touched Quotes - Page 30

• Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Loyalty, Good Life, Passion

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• There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

  Charles Kuralt

  Conscience

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• I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.

  Ali MacGraw

  Animal, Levels, Cruelty

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• I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm selling out arenas in London, and when I'm in Australia and Japan, there aren't any Grammys there. There are human beings who I've touched. There are human beings who are inspired by me, who I love dearly. And that's what my career is based on.

  Nicki Minaj

  Artist, Japan, Careers

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• For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

  Christopher Moore

  Loyalty, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

  Liam Neeson

  Asking, Scripts, Sometimes

  "Liam Neeson - 'A sex symbol? Flattering, but I don't think so'" by Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. April 5, 2012.

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• I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Healing, Ideas

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

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• Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

  Boris Pasternak

  Grateful, Proud

  Christopher Barnes, Christopher J. Barnes, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (2004). “Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography”, p.342, Cambridge University Press

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• Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Alzheimer's, Epidemics, Years

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• Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Dark, Mississippi Delta

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• He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

  Ernest Renan

  God, Men, May

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• Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Intellectual, Mind

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• Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.

  John Sculley

  Technology, Adoption, Way

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• These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

  Ayrton Senna

  Reality, Able, Moments

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• Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Social, Force

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• I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

  Bruce Springsteen

  School, Trying, Way

  "Glastonbury 2009: Bruce Springsteen". Interview with Steve Lamacq, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2009.

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• I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

  Sting

  Catholic, Church, Week

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• God's finger touched him, and he slept.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Grieving, Funeral

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 85

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• I'm different, and I have to be a warrior to be that way. But I have had some success; I hope I have touched the lives of some wonderful people, all by being what I see as myself but some others people see as different.

  Johnny Weir

  Warrior, People, Different

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• There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

  Muhammad Yunus

  Expression, Selfishness, Different

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• When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

  Laura Ziskin

  Cancer, Epidemics, Disease

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• Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.

  Helen Fisher

  Mother, Philosophy, Medicine

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• With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Arms, Necks, Infinite

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• I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.

  Edna O'Brien

  Children, Hair, Hands

  Edna O'Brien (1985). “A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories of Edna O'Brien”, Plume

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• If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.

  Steve Irwin

  People, Want, Wildlife

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