Touching Quotes

625 quotes by 505 authors

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and… — Honore de Balzac
All disgust is originally disgust at touching. — Walter Benjamin
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The… — Warren G. Bennis
It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching… — Gisele Bundchen
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during… — Julie Burchill
My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a… — Ray Charles
Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and… — Maya Angelou
Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more… — Miyamoto Musashi
There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child… — A B Simpson
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing… — Elizabeth Bowen
When covering the man with the ball, the defense should be able to touch the ball with his hand. He should assume this touching position… — Ralph Miller
Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by… — Ruth McKenney
See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which,… — George Gissing
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. — Wassily Kandinsky
Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to each other, the… — Yao Ming
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of… — Sri Aurobindo
Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes… — Norman Lear

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