Touching Quotes
625 quotes by 505 authors
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People may like a person’s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.
— Anuj
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Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn…
— Nhat Hanh
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A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then…
— A. A. Gill
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We’re now recognizing that the mind, which is an energetic field of thought which you can read with EEG wires on your brain or with…
— Bruce H. Lipton
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And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve…
— Anton Chekhov
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A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.
— H. L. Mencken
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Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not…
— Eric Hoffer
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[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a…
— Troy Perry
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down…
— Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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For touching an adversary's man, when it cannot be captured, the offender must move his King.
— Howard Staunton
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The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with…
— Frederick Lenz
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An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to…
— Susan Faludi
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"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of waters,…
— Joan D. Chittister
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Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties. How…
— Bernie Siegel
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Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
— Susan Sontag
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When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your…
— Michael Azerrad
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Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
— Anton du Beke
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Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they…
— Marco Arment
Who Wrote These Touching Quotes
505 authors contributed a total of 625 Touching Quotes, led by these top contributors: