Touching Quotes - Page 13

• These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

  Victor Hugo

  Two, Long, Feelings

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.

  Susan Orlean

  Fun, Moving, Hands

  "Connected" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Touching his hair, she leaned hesitantly forward, and he folded his arms around her, sinking into sensation again as they kissed--the slight weight of her on his lap, the smell of her. He glided his hands up the warm dip of her spine, felt her shiver and press closer. He could never get enough of this. Never.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Hair, Hands, Smell

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• Let's be clear on this, he growled. You have no idea how badly I want to be inside you. Standing up, lying down, taking you from behind. All of it. Right now. Not being able to do any of that is killing me. Literally. But strangely enough, I like just being with you. Touching you however I can, whenever I can. So no. The virginity thing is not what will keep us apart. ~Wraith

  Larissa Ione

  Lying, Ideas, Touching You

  Larissa Ione (2009). “Passion Unleashed”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Race, Sublime

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.108, The Floating Press

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• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  Walter Benjamin

  Disgusting

  Walter Benjamin (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• ‎"The earth is so beautiful. We are beautiful also. We can allow ourselves to walk mindfully, touching the earth, our wonderful mother, with each step. We don't need to wish our friends, 'Peace be with you.' Peace is already with them. We only need to help them cultivate the habit of touching peace in each moment."-

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Mother, Wish

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• It's been the toughest week of my life, not touching you. Not talking to you. Waiting to see what you were going to do." He kissed her again, a warm, damp touch of lips, exquisitely controlled. "But it doesn't matter whether you stay or go. I'll still need you. So if you want to go off to Boston, Ill wait. Right here, whenever you need me.

  Rachel Caine

  Boston, Talking, Touching You

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.243, Allison & Busby

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• I know how you guys feel about us. I'm not stupid, and believe me, I've tried to get you out of my head. But there isn't enough liquor or art or any other distraction in the world to do it. I had to stop going to Wolfe's because it was too hard being that close to you, even if it was all just pretend fighting. I couldn't stand the touching. It was agonizing because it meant something to me－and I knew it meant nothing to you. I kept telling myself to stay away altogether, and then I'd find excuses… like the car… anything to be around you again.

  Richelle Mead

  Art, Stupid, Believe

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.323, Penguin

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• He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Sleep, Night, Insomnia

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• Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Believe, Dirty, Thinking

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.561, Simon and Schuster

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• They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Night, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Where are you getting your affection? Who's touching you? Who's holding you? Who makes you feel alive? Who says, "You are a beautiful person, you are the beloved of God, don't forget it"? That's an important discipline.

  Henri Nouwen

  Beautiful, Touching You, Discipline

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Once I was in the Blink-182, going to Iraq was really touching. It was kind of emo for me, going and meeting soldiers who were, like, 19 and hadn't even met their kids... Or dealing with depression. Just being with those soldiers and traveling with them in helicopters and people with M-16s. It was an eye-opener.

  Mark Hoppus

  Emo, Kids, People

  Source: www.spin.com

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• Art is a funny thing. It's a communicative medium. It really is, and it works outside of literature, the movies, stage, it has its own realm. It's like when you say "The Arts," those are all the arts, dance, theater, ballet. So within that set of areas of expression, we have visual art and it is visual and it's about looking at something and seeing it in the light with our eyes, maybe touching it or not touching it, or wanting to touch it, not being able to touch it.

  Michael C. McMillen

  Art, Eye, Work Out

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• When I was really sad, I would be like a little kid wiggling a loose tooth or touching a sore spot - there were things that I did to make myself sadder. It was almost as if I were luxuriant in my own melancholy. Looking at the diaries and thinking about my old self, thinking about my lost youth - that was part of that project of making myself totally miserable.

  Claire Dederer

  Kids, Thinking, Youth

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• My advice is don't use technology primarily to lower costs. Use technology to create new, effective ways of touching the market and creating new businesses and if you do that right, the cost savings will come.

  Paul Saffo

  Technology, Advice, New Business

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I never really got any backlash from coming out. Across the board all I really got was kids who were grateful, which is so touching and rewarding for me. So grateful that I came out, that I could serve as someone in their world that was gay and helped them feel comfortable about being gay themselves.

  Roddy Bottum

  Grateful, Kids, Gay

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love The End of the Batman story. I have my original copy, the hardcover, at my house from when I was a kid, whenever that was,'88 or '89. It was very influential to me because it was so explicit in touching on the notion that Batman might be mad and that he might belong in the mad house.

  Scott Snyder

  Kids, Mad, House

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• Just do exactly what it is that makes you want to do what you do. The stuff I listen to in my private collection, it's what moves me, makes me want to play. I want to make other people feel like I feel when I listen to that music. Whether other people like it or criticize it - even if there's only 10 people on the planet that love it, you're touching 10 people that way.

  Dustin Diamond

  Moving, Play, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was aware that my nomination was drawing a lot of attention, particularly in the Latino world, not just in Puerto Rico. It was touching.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Drawing, Attention, World

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative is that whatever is happening in the reality of America, where there is a murder rate worse than Lebanon's and where there is so much homelessness and poverty, still America will be a shorthand throughout the world for everything that is young and modern and free.

  Pico Iyer

  Reality, Thinking, America

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• There is something which is going to be one of the main challenges in the Muslim world today, in the Muslim-majority countries in the Arab world, is the religious credibility. How are you going to react to what is said about Islam? So, by touching the prophet of Islam, the reaction should be, who is going to be the guardian?

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Religious, Challenges

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• In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Children, America, People

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• As long as we see America and her wealth as something that we want, we will never leave Pharaoh. As God's hand touched the wealth of Pharaoh, it is now touching the wealth of America. As the Black man and woman become more awakened to the wicked machinations of government, the aim is the same today: We should never be free of their influence and power.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, Hands, Influence And Power

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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