Gestures Quotes
552 Gestures quotes by 444 unique authors
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-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't…
— Nora Roberts
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It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating…
— Arundhati Roy
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Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows…
— Vera Nazarian
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Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words…
— Elliot Perlman
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Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me. But…
— Suzanne Collins
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Go to sleep," he says softly. His hand brushes the lose strands of my hair off my forehead. Unlike the staged kisses and caresses so…
— Suzanne Collins
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V?" Butch said. "Don't leave, okay?" "Never." V brushed Butch's hair back with a gesture so tender it was out of place coming from a…
— J R Ward
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I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies…
— Anne Rice
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Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no…
— Emile M. Cioran
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She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature, a rose in…
— Edmond Rostand
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Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was…
— Frank Herbert
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she was aware of his love - how could she not? She perceived it every time he looked at her. He was not demonstrative, but…
— Cecilia Dart-Thornton
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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and…
— Honore de Balzac
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I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
— Graham Greene
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...that left Francesca to slink into the chair opposite us. My feeling of superiority was short-lived, however, when she settled herself down and then crossed…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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Alec drew his hand back with a low whistle. "The Inquisitor meant business." "Of course she did. I'm a dangerous criminal. Or hadn't you heard?"…
— Cassandra Clare
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In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are…
— Wallace Stegner
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We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken
— Ian Mcewan
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I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the…
— John Irving
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The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly,…
— Gaston Leroux
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I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.
— Cassandra Clare
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They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a…
— N. Scott Momaday
Who Wrote These Gestures Quotes
444 authors contributed a total of 552 Gestures Quotes, led by these top contributors: