Gesture Quotes

376 quotes by 304 authors

He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me, don't you, Mouse?"… — Ilona Andrews
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. — W. Somerset Maugham
Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget... — Leo Tolstoy
I can see why you like it here," he said,making a sweeping gesture that encompassed Kyle's collection of movie posters and science fiction books. "There's… — Cassandra Clare
A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to… — Damon Galgut
The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the… — David Foster Wallace
The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing… — Pope Benedict XVI
He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're… — Sarah Addison Allen
Much has happened since last we met, Bartimaeus," he went on. "Do you remember how we parted?" "No." I did. "You set light to me,… — Jonathan Stroud
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last… — Hermann Hesse
Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates,… — Steven Erikson
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can.… — Kate DiCamillo
It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a… — E. M. Forster
She tried to open the bottle, but the top slipped through her fingers without moving. He took the bottle from her hand and opened it… — Paolo Giordano
I make a gesture that is intended to convey, "Hey, no hurry, talk as long as you'd like," and probably actually conveys, "Hey, look at… — John Green
Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling… — Milan Kundera
Can I ask you a personal question"? Of all the rhetorical questions in the world, that is the one which irritates me most with its… — Kamila Shamsie
I could just barely see the dark curve of his shoulder, and something about the shape it made, the gesture it suggested, filled me with… — Maggie Stiefvater
What do you mean, Araluen? Death?" Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all.… — John Flanagan
Morley put his hand over his heart and bowed from the waist, a gesture that somehow reminded Claire of Myrnin. It reminded her she missed… — Rachel Caine

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