Gestures Quotes

552 quotes by 444 authors

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame… — Dag Hammarskjold
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring… — E E Cummings
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
How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset… — William Faulkner
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
Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one. — Brian Morton
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by… — Edith Wharton
All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I… — Alberto Manguel
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. — Franz Kafka
Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes… — Oscar Wilde
What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the… — Gustave Flaubert
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

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