Gesture Quotes

376 Gesture quotes by 304 unique authors

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. — John Updike
That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that -… — Lorrie Moore
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. — Libba Bray
Kisses open doors, I've noticed. That one gesture can unlock secrets, ease open feelings. It can't be prevented--these kisses just are. It's how they work.… — Susan Fletcher
I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates… — Aimee Bender
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life… — Jack Kornfield
When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is… — Paulo Coelho
Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love. — John Milton
My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth… — Steve Martin
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. — Franz Kafka
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of… — John Berger
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see… — Rainer Maria Rilke
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He… — Diana Gabaldon
I'll wager at the end a body realizes the Lord has already shown Himself. That things as they are -- her hand circles in a… — Truman Capote
Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. — Hermann Hesse
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt,… — May Sarton
If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the… — Steve Erickson
In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace. — J. G. Ballard
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would… — Bernhard Schlink
I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic,… — Anita Diament
Every gesture is a revolutionary act. — Fernando Pessoa
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs… — Tom Stoppard
somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or… — E E Cummings
Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same… — George Orwell
I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled.… — Janet Evanovich

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