Touching Quotes - Page 7

• I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do.

  Sonny Perdue

  People, Helping, Reaching

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• And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.

  Amy Hempel

  Beach, Long, Window

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be thirty; more touching to be forty; tragic to be fifty; and heartbreaking to be sixty. As to seventy, as to eighty, one would feel as one did during the last dance of a ball, tired but fey in the paling dawn, desperately making the most of each bar of music before one went home to bed.

  Rose Macaulay

  Home, Tired, Heartbreaking

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• After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”

  Dennis Wolfberg

  Years, Psychologist, Said

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• I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

  Paul McCartney

  Forever, Goes On, Body

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• While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

  David R. Brower

  War, Men, Mountain

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• Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.

  Patience Strong

  Sunshine, Winter, Magic

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.

  Steve Aylett

  Stars, Book, Sea

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• But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.

  Bel Kaufman

  Commitment, Thinking, Nerves

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• none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Pain, Book, Learning

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• society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?

  Sydney Biddle Barrows

  Sex, Athlete, Qualms About

  Sydney Biddle Barrows, William Novak (1987). “Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows”, Ivy Books

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• No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.

  Mari Evans

  Father, Iron, Entity

  Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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• All my early memories are of forms and shapes and textures. Moving through and over the West Riding landscape with my father in his car, the hills were sculptures; the roads defined the form. Above all, there was the sensation of moving physically over the contours of fullnessess and concavities, through hollows and over peaks - feeling, touching, seeing, through mind and hand and eye. This sensation has never left me. I, the sculptor, am the landscape. I am the form and the hollow, the thrust and the contour.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Art, Memories, Father

  Barbara Hepworth (Dame) (1978). “A pictorial autobiography”

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• There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.

  Amy Sedaris

  Home, People, Groups

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• German civility, which often seems stiff to us, shows an attentive and touching respect for the person that I often prefer to our offhandedness.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Civility, Shows, Persons

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• Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Nerves, Satisfaction, Southerner

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• Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.

  Vinod Khosla

  Mean, Winter, Thinking

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were in school and they'd do those hearing tests? And you'd really be listening hard, you know? I wanted to do unbelievable on the hearing test. I wanted them to come over to me after and go, 'We think you may have something close to super-hearing. What you heard was a cotton ball touching a piece of felt. We're sending the results to Washington, we'd like you to meet the President.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  School, Thinking, Listening

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• [Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

  Charles Lloyd

  Art, Blessed, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.

  Charles Lloyd

  Mother, Men, Blessing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. Theres a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. Its the same in relationships.

  Tracy McMillan

  Thinking, Order, Masculine And Feminine

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• You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

  Tiki Barber

  Eye, High Standards, Standards

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• The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

  Tom Hooper

  Ends, Bigger, Universal Truth

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• The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.

  Jay Leno

  Names, Airports, Government

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• I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

  Mother Teresa

  Broken, Suffering, Body

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