Compassionate Quote by Andrea Levy Download Open image ““He looked so pained that I dreamed of taking his hands and making him dance”” — Andrea Levy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compassionate Dreams
“We danced forever, and not nearly long enough. Now that I faced him, I could touch him, too, rather than self-consciously drip through his fingers. I explored his back, fingertips discovering ridges of his spine, muscles, a place below his left shoulder blade that made him writhe, as if struggling not to laugh. I tickled him again, devouring the sensation… — Jodi Meadows Copy Share
“A quiet but indomitable voice behind me said, “I believe this is my dance.” It was him. I could feel his presence. The warmth… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“He was unreasonably drawn to her and touching her, just the slightest brush, made the feeling intensify, so dancing was an irresistible torment.” — Sheri Richey Copy Share Image
“Would you like to?” he says. His voice is hardly audible above the wind— so low it’s barely a whisper. “Would I like to… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Do me a favor,” he whispers, curling my fingers over the back of his and bringing them to his mouth. “What?” His eyes never… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and let the music flow through my body like I was made for dancing to this specific song. When I… — Nacole Stayton Copy Share Image
“It was frantic, his hands on my hips, running up the curves of my waist, bringing me as close to him as possible. His… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“The touch of his fingers sent her heart to dancing, and her mind flitted to being held in his arms after he had saved… — Melanie Dickerson Copy Share Image
“His eyes blazed at me, but it was the best kind of heat. He smiled, and for the first time in my life I… — Garrett Leigh Copy Share Image
“No, no, no, no. Don't get carried away, man. One thaw is not the summer.” — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just… — Andrea Levy Copy Share
“Gilbert: How Clark Gable turn every women's head so? Foolish young English girls would see a movie star in every GI with the same Yankee-doodle voice. Glamour in US privates named Jed, Buck or Chip, with their easy-come-by-gifts and Uncle Sam sweet-talk. Dreamboats in hooligans from Delaware or Arizona with fingernails that still carried soil from home, and eyes that… — Andrea Levy Copy Share
“The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
Describe snow to someone who's lived in the desert. Depict the colour blue for a blind man. Almost impossible to fashion the word. — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
“We went up and up into the heavens until people were just dots below us. As we hung right at the top--the twinkling electric… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
“Paved with gold, no - but, yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain” — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
“Why you wan' the whole world when ya have a likkle piece a hope here? Stay. Stay and fight, man. Fight till you look… — Andrea Levy Copy Share Image
“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A hard heart makes for hard judgments; a compassionate heart understands the humanity of the one we presume to judge. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia. It has been hard, yet this assistance together with the compassionate work of private charities, people… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share
God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I… — Elton John Copy Share Image
If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
Those who grieve frequently find themselves alone. Missed is the laughter of children, the commotion of teenagers, and the tender, loving concern of a departed companion. The clock ticks more loudly, time passes more slowly, and four walls can indeed a prison make. I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share
The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them. — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share