Touching Quotes - Page 15

• The essence of education is the education of the body.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.137

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• 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 as the ball is being received. When the ball is received, the defense should discourage the pass into the post area. The hands should be kept up. Keeping the hands up reduces a tendency to foul and allows a player to move his hands quickly.

  Ralph Miller

  Basketball, Moving, Player

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• 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 the silence.... For the first time in history, American mass-production workers had stopped a conveyor belt and halted the inexorable movement of factory machinery.

  Ruth McKenney

  Struggle, Perfect, Long

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• 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 place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Eye, Darkness

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1732, Delphi Classics

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• 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, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

  George Gissing

  Truth, Honesty, Soul

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.148, The Floating Press

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• The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

  Terence Fisher

  Reflection, Glasses, Flames

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• 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 sounds of the ball touching the wooden floor, the sneakers touching the floor, and the sounds of the fight, the muscle and the sweat. Oh, and the last one-when the ball goes through the net. Don't laugh at my sensitivity and romanticism - those sounds really attract me.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Fighting, Sneakers

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• I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can't help, but touch myself.

  Toni Braxton

  Helping, Imagine, Masturbation

  Song: You're Makin Me High, Album: Secrets, 1996

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• There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Sky, Dying

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• Reading to children at night, responding to their smiles with a smile, returning their vocalizations with one of your own, touching them, holding them - all of these further a child's brain development and future potential, even in the earliest months.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Children, Father, Reading

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• I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

  Pamela Frankau

  Writing, Use, Sides

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• Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a pair invents its own commonwealth, complete with anthems, rituals, and lingos-a cult of two with fallible gods.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Couple, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

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• These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lakes, Hands, Jewels

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• Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well.

  Ken Hom

  Sweet, Laughter, Struggle

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• I think that argument is completely morally bankrupt, and I think people know that when they make it. There's a very big difference between having a sincere, passionate interest in a topic and being a paid shill. Particularly for PR firms, it's something they should really very strongly avoid: ever touching an article.

  Jimmy Wales

  Thinking, Differences, People

  PRWeek, January 30, 2007.

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• Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Mother, Pain, Children

  Louis Auchincloss (1965). “The Rector of Justin”

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• With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.

  Anthony Trollope

  Heart, Feet, Doubt

  'Miss Mackenzie' (1865) ch. 10

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• Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, this pitch it seldom attains. But what a Tully or a Demosthenes could scarcely effect over a Roman or Athenian audience, every Capuchin, every itinerant or stationary teacher can perform over the generality of mankind, and in a higher degree, by touching such gross and vulgar passions.

  David Hume

  Teacher, Passion, Reflection

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.127, tredition

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• This it is that gives a majesty so pure and touching to the historic figure of Christ; self-abandonment to God, uttermost surrender, without reserve or stipulation, to the guidance of the Holy Spirit from the Soul of souls; pause in no darkness; hesitation in no perplexity, recoil in no extremity of anguish, but a gentle unfaltering hold of the invisible Hand, of the Only Holy and All Good--these are the features that have made Jesus of Nazareth the dearest and most sacred image to the heart of so many ages.

  James Martineau

  Jesus, Heart, Invisible Hand

  James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

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• I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Beautiful, Thinking, Lovely

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Sight, Able

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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• What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.

  Robert Henri

  Thinking, Way, Canvas

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rain, Land, Clouds

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• I don't approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves touching them - caging them.

  Neal Barnard

  Animal, Purpose, Use

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