Touch Quotes - page 3

Slaves cannot breathe in England if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free They touch our country, and their shackles fall. (William Cowper)
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions. View quote
Deepak Chopra
Nations touch at their summits. View quote
Walter Bagehot
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. View quote
Bob Dylan
Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch. View quote
William Butler Yeats
If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest. View quote
William Butler Yeats
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. View quote
Aeschylus
Nothing eases suffering like human touch. View quote
Bobby Fischer
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate. View quote
Michael Jordan
His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind. View quote
Anne Brontë
The following general definition of an animal a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. (Denis Diderot)
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of. View quote
Lord Byron
We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important. View quote
Eric Carle
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast. View quote
William Shakespeare
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
It isn't given for us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people, we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps. View quote
William Boyd
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within. (David Duchovny)
I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook. View quote
Eve Ensler
For an instant she felt his touch on her cheek then he stepped back. There that was my ration for all eternity. People have died for less I dare say. View quote
Eva Ibbotson
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself. View quote
Etgar Keret
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. View quote
Christopher Lasch
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