Contact Quotes

• After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religious, Atheist, Philosophical

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• In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

  Carl Sagan

  Emptiness, Found, Bearable

  "Fictional character: Alien". "Contact", 1997.

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• Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Ignorant, Censorship

  "Picasso". Book by Antonina Vallentin (p. 168), 1963 (1957).

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• You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.

  Carl Sagan

  Beautiful, Dream, Nightmare

  "Fictional character: Alien". "Contact", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Beauty, Truth, Work

  Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “The Peter Principle”

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• You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

  Carl Sagan

  Beautiful, Dream, Cutting

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• Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teaching, People

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  Carl Jung

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.49, Psychology Press

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• Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

  Regina Brett

  Eye, Hands, People

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• Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Happy, Art, Feelings

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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• The eyes are the windows to the soul

  Hilary Duff

  Eye, Window To The Soul, Shop Windows

  Hilary Duff (2011). “Elixir”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

  Carl Sagan

  Two, Government, Firsts

  "Fictional character: S.R. Hadden". "Contact", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Peace

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Children, Book

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• Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Eye, Way, Intimate

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• No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Agency, Government, Makers

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• Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Uplifting, Mind, Looks

  "Complete Works".

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• The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

  Brian Tracy

  Law, People, Probability

  "Secrets of Success from Business Coach Brian Tracy". Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, homebusinessmag.com. December 07, 2015.

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• If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities? Were we really designed in order to recline on the couch, extending our wrists perpendicular to the floor so we can flick through the television's offerings? Were we really designed in order to shop some more so the economy can grow some more? Or were we designed to experience the great epiphanies that come from contact with each other and with the natural world?

  Bill McKibben

  Offering, Order, Television

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• In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives that we have forgotten how to provide ourselves-all meaningful contact between ourselves and the earth is broken. We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand.

  Wendell Berry

  Meaningful, Thinking, Ideas

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.85, Counterpoint

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• My experience in the United States was living in a society that was very much at war with itself, that was very alienated. People felt not part of a community, but like isolated units that were afraid of interaction, of contact, that were lonely.

  Assata Shakur

  Lonely, War, People

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• A good friend of mine took me out and had me hit off a tee. He made me understand what was my strike zone and - with my speed - the importance of making contact. So I give him a lot of credit for changing my game and making me the player I became. He showed me how to work on me and my game, and not worry about patterning myself after someone else and focusing on what they were capable of doing rather than what I was capable of doing.

  Rickey Henderson

  Good Friend, Player, Games

  "AN Interviews Rickey Henderson". Interview with Donald Marquez, www.athleticsnation.com. May 7, 2012.

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• God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.

  Oswald Chambers

  Encouragement, Religious, Blessing

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• All men think that they're nice guys. Some of them are not. Contact me for a list of names.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Nice, Humor

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• Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed at men they came in contact with, because it had been pent up too long - women now come from a new position of easier, more comfortable self-affirmation and empowerment. Women are given to tolerance and are more able to love. I hope it happens also to men.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Law, Self

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