Touched Quotes - Page 16

• I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Worry, Anxiety

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.

  Aga Khan IV

  Determination, Motivation, Mean

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• If the sky were to suddenly open up, there would be no law, there would be no rule. There would be only you and your memories, the choices you've made and the people you've touched.

  Katharine Ross

  Meaningful, Memories, Sky

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• I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world. May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. Farewell.

  Barry Hughart

  Love, Beautiful, Daughter

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• Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

  Pablo Picasso

  Power, Sacred, Able

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• You are Hannah, a lover of life, a strength to those who shared in your friendships. You are a dream, a creator of happiness, an artist who has touched a thousand souls. You've led a full life and wanted for nothing, because your needs are spiritual and you have only to look inside you. You are kind and loyal, and you are able to see the beauty where others do not. You are a teacher of wonderful lessons, a dreamer of better things.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dream, Spiritual, Teacher

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on this cloud sea is not human, And here is no shore, no intimacy, Only the start of space, the road to suns.

  F. R. Scott

  Moon, Night, Lakes

  1945 'Trans Canada'.

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• He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Should Have, Eggs

  Charles Dickens (2004). “The Shorter Novels of Charles Dickens”, p.561, Wordsworth Editions

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• It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have touched, in one way or another, on every aspect of computers and computerization. And (mark this!) I did it without ever knowing anything at all about computers in any real sense. To this day, I don't. I am totally inept with machinery... on my typewriter I turn out books at the contemptible rate of one a month

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, Book, Thinking

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• I want to express my deepest condolences at the passing of Steve Jobs, one of the founders of our industry and a true visionary. My heart goes out to his family, everyone at Apple and everyone who has been touched by his work.

  Steve Ballmer

  Jobs, Condolences, Heart

  "Nationwide Outpouring of Remembrance for Apple's Steve Jobs", www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2011.

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• But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even the most foolish error. The important inventions which have been brought about in every realm of science from false hypotheses number in the hundreds, indeed in the thousands.

  Stefan Zweig

  Errors, Numbers, Important

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• My fingers traced the melody on an invisible keyboard—my usual way to connect with the music, to feel its emotions on my fingertips. I touched the keys softly, as if gliding my hands through water, but the musical notes kept slipping between my fingers like bubbles, waltzing away in the blue radiance.

  Ella Leya

  Keys, Blue, Hands

  Ella Leya (2015). “The Orphan Sky”, p.24, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• When the world around you is falling to pieces. Invite yourself into a new world that you have invented and can't be touched.

  Jan Hellriegel

  Fall, Pieces, World

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• Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.

  Don McLean

  Deep Inside, Died

  "American Pie" (song) (1971)

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• In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.

  Mitch Albom

  Opportunity, Choices, Heaven

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• It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man — where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Appreciation, Adventure, Men

  Charles A. Lindbergh, Reeve Lindbergh (2003). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody has a heart that can be touched by something.

  Naoki Higashida

  Heart

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• Your hair," repeated Dimitri. His eyes were wide, almost awestruck. "Your hair is beautiful." I didn't think so, not in its current state. of course, considering we were in a dark alley filled with bodies, the choices were kind of limited. "You see? You're not one of them. Strigoi don't see beauty. Only death. You found something beautiful. One thing that's beautiful." Hesitantly, nervously, he ran his fingers along the strands I'd touched earlier. "But is it enough?" "It is for now." I pressed a kiss to his forehead and helped him stand. "It is for now.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.135, Penguin

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• I can feel his presence here in every stone he has touched, every person he has lifted up, every street and alley and city that he has changed in the few years of his life, because he is the Republic, he is our light, and I love you, I love you, until the day we meet again I will hold you in my heart and protect you there, grieving what we never had, cherishing what we did. I wish you were here. I love you, always.

  Marie Lu

  Love You, Heart, Grieving

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• He scowled at Jason. "And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again.

  Rick Riordan

  Jason, Hades, Please

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus Book 4)”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• Sydney, I'm so happy to see you again. If there's anything I can do for you, please let me know. And you must be Neil." "Your majesty." Neil swept her a bow so low that his forehead touched the ground. Above him, Adrian rolled his eyes. "Easy there, Lancelot," Adrian said. "I don't think bowing is required when she's in jeans and bunny slippers.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Thinking, Jeans

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• See Time has touched me gently in his race,
  And left no odious furrows in my face.

  George Crabbe

  Time, Race, Faces

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.160

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• Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Moving

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• When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Happiness, Happy, Men

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.80, Xist Publishing

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• When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

  John Ruskin

  Father, Future, Men

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.188, Courier Corporation

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