Gestures Quotes

552 Gestures quotes by 444 unique authors

We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . .… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
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
to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge… — Alain de Botton
No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns. — Cassandra Clare
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
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost… — Chris Abani
Every gesture is a revolutionary act. — Fernando Pessoa
Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome — Christopher Moore
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
We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our… — Maggie O'Farrell
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
But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of all, one tiny… — Janet Fitch
I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of… — James Joyce
I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water.… — Pema Chodron
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. — Maile Meloy
Ascension seemed at such times a natural law. If one added to it a law of completion - that everything must finally be made comprehensible… — Marilynne Robinson
Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from… — Chetan Bhagat
Enter my first neighbor - a woman who spoke in complete, coherent sentences, who ate with a knife and fork and who only cried at… — Erma Bombeck
She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are… — Jeffery Deaver
The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from… — Guy Debord

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