Touching Quotes - Page 17

• We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Real, Lying, Dancer

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• Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Artist, Shadow, Veils

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• Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges ordinary Chinese people have to put up with, it's beneficial and, and, by any rational standard, non-threatening to have national energies channeled into this kind of competition. It's touching to see so many ordinary Chinese crowds cheering for their new heroes.

  James Fallows

  Cheer, Hero, Years

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• I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Law, Ideas, Enforcement

  Source: collider.com

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• I've never had anything cold and wet touching my butthole before. That was quite the experience!

  Ronda Rousey

  Cold, Wet

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have received many touching letters and emails from people who live in the most religious parts of the country, in places like rural Texas, saying it is so good to see someone be able to say I am an atheist without shame.

  Susan Jacoby

  Country, Religious, Atheist

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

  Chris Milk

  Motivation, Real, Emotional

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever was not significant until the development of a male-dominated medical establishment made possible the situation in which a professional might move from touching a corpse (for the purposes of study) to putting his unwashed hands up against, or into, a woman in labor.

  Laura Mullen

  Moving, Thinking, Hands Up

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Hair, Age

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!

  Peter Travers

  Air, Shining, Comic

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• You have to realise that touching is a real violation of personal space.

  Jane Goodall

  Real, Space, Violation

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Health, Eye

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.7, Parallax Press

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• Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this first, that they have done no harm; next, that they have no power whatever of resistance; it is the cowardice and tyranny of which they are the victims which makes their sufferings so especially touching.

  John Henry Newman

  Moving, Heart, Animal

  "Parochial and Plain Sermons".

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• It's important that I make a difference in some way. If it's performing and touching someone that way, that's great; if it's being a teacher and helping some kid understand something, that's even better.

  Clay Aiken

  Teacher, Kids, Differences

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• Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him

  Jennifer Connelly

  Mother, Growing Up, Important

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• Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well.

  Ken Hom

  Sweet, Laughter, Struggle

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• These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lakes, Hands, Jewels

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• Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Couple, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

  James Crumley

  Morning, Children, Rose

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.184, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

  Pamela Frankau

  Writing, Use, Sides

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• Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Children, Father, Reading

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• I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He'll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me.

  Maya Banks

  Men, Please Me, Want

  Leanne Banks, Catherine Mann, Sara Orwig, Olivia Gates, Katherine Garbera (2009). “One-Click Buy: May 2009 Silhouette Desire: Billionaire Extraordinaire\Propositioned Into a Foreign Affair\Montana Mistress\The Once and Future Prince\The Moretti Arrangement\The Tycoon's Rebel Bride”, p.547, Silhouette

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• There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Sky, Dying

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• Some of the memories were not clear - -dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Baby, Memories, Flower

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• He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Night, Destiny

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Book of Illusions”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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