Gestures Quotes - Page 10

That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland

Jonathan Stroud

Kissing, Fire, Hug

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How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness on a regular basis. Just think- to make happiness out of nothing more than a few kind words or a generous gesture.

Jonathan Carroll

Kindness, Thinking, Magic

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Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.

Serge Lutens

Writing, Choices Made, Weapons

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Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.

Fanny Howe

Heart, Doubt

Fanny Howe (2003). “Gone: Poems”, p.25, Univ of California Press

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Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us.

Pope Benedict XVI

Giving, Joy, Littles

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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

Eric Hoffer

Men, Age, Answers

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You have to teach yourself to act but Michael Chekhov will give you the necessary tools - and for me, Psychological Gesture and Centers are extremely valuable They work like a charm. I've used them all along and still do.

Clint Eastwood

Giving, Tools, Chekhov

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You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture. That's what happened with your girlfriend, Paloma- she stooped to pick up her purse and your heart flew out of you.

Junot Diaz

Girl, Falling In Love, Heart

Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.88, Faber & Faber

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Being shown a gesture of love is like being offered a portion of God.

Deepak Chopra

Love Is, Love Is Like, Portions

FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Mar 30, 2011

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Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.

Miroslav Volf

Simple, Echoes, Attention

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Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.

George Mikes

Funny, Humor, Sleep

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Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them – acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life and then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being.

Fernando Pessoa

Taken, Cutting, Thinking

"The Book of Disquiet".

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Right after winning the Oscar, when everyone was going home, they let these little gold Oscary shapes flutter down from the ceiling. Leonardo DiCaprio came over, bowed down, and kissed my hand. It was the most fabulous moment - such a lovely gesture. He didn't say anything.

Helen Mirren

Home, Winning, Hands

"Helen Mirren: What I've Learned". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 07, 2011.

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Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

Randall Munroe

Science, Eyebrows, Doe

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Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

Paulo Coelho

Beautiful, Opportunity, Simple

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The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for consummation with the other.

Roland Barthes

Dream, Unions, Longing

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The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.

Thomas Merton

Spiritual, Attitude, Men

Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.16, Liturgical Press

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You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'.

John Climacus

Christian, Wish, Splinters

Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.149, Paulist Press

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My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “Where’s the bathroom?” and making theatrical looking-around gestures like a lost foreign tourist. But then, instead of finding the bathroom, I sneakily grab my coat and leave.

Mindy Kaling

Air, Deception, Exit

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You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture

Junot Diaz

Girl, Falling In Love, Expression

Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.88, Faber & Faber

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When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while.

Robert Jordan

Men, Thinking, Hands

Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.316, Macmillan

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Sincerity is romantic. I don't think you need gestures.

Simon Cowell

Thinking, Needs, Sincerity

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I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

Carrie Mae Weems

Moving, Looks, Body

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In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Song, Men, Air

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Humanity needs to see these gestures of peace and to hear words of hope and peace!

Pope Francis

Humanity, Needs, Words Of Hope

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