Touching Quotes - Page 27

• A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby, intelligent folk will say, 'Go on then, read what the letter tells you!' whereas the dull-witted will say, 'Go on then, read what he's written!

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Intelligent, Goes On

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.44, Faber & Faber

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• Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life.

  Kim Novak

  Moving, Essence, Tree

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• What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?

  Pablo Neruda

  Hands, Earth

  Pablo Neruda (1974). “Pablo Neruda: Five Decades, a Selection (poems, 1925-1970)”, p.249, Grove Press

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• There is no work better than another to please God: to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a souter [cobbler], or an apostle, all is one; to wash dishes and to preach is all one, as touching tho deed, to please God.

  William Tyndale

  Water, Cobblers, Deeds

  "Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures".

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• Touching His human nature, Jesus is no longer present with us. Touching his Divine nature, He is never absent from us.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Human Nature, Divine

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2017

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• Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.

  Neil Diamond

  Song, Sex, Hands

  Song: Sweet Caroline

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• For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

  Nan Goldin

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in...at least for 10 minutes.

  Krishna Das

  Powerful, Able, Stuff

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Oct 06, 2015

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• Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety – best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens to be where you are in the universe to keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light – good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Stars, Kindness

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.3, Beacon Press

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• At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Autumn, Sea, Smell

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• When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Needs, May, Eternal Life

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• THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Giving, Words Of Wisdom

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.

  Queen Victoria

  Powerful, Voice, Acting

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• The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

  Robert Briffault

  Ideas, Goal, Modern

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• President Bush gave a rousing speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Afterward, in a touching show of support, every foreign dignitary shook hands with the president and smiled warmly as he mispronounced their names.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Hands

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• I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Ignorance, Light, Darkness

  Elizabeth Moon (2003). “The Speed of Dark”

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• There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

  Bob Schaffer

  Hands, Voters, Guarantees

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• At times your entire body tingles with ecstasy as you feel the waves of psychic energy that emanate from the master's aura touching your own body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Psychics, Energy

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

  Jim Rohn

  Business, Mean, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 27, 2017

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• Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

  Pope Francis

  Suffering, Trying, May

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• Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit

  Barack Obama

  Doctors, President, Nannies

  "Robin Williams dead; family, friends and fans are 'totally devastated'" By Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2014.

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