Untouchables Quotes - Page 2

• The bones seem to cut sharply to the center of something that is keenly alive on the desert even tho' it is vast and empty and untouchable... and knows no kindness with all its beauty.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beauty, Kindness, Cutting

  Roxana Robinson, Georgia O'Keeffe (1989). “Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life”, p.365, UPNE

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• Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

  Lawren Harris

  Beauty, Men, Games

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• From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

  Jose Saramago

  Garbage Disposal, Our World, Jam

  Jose Saramago's intervention in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, February 1992.

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• While all men are born as equals, to say that Brahmins alone are the highest and all others are low as Pariah (the Untouchables) or Panchama is sheer nonsense. It is roguish to say so. It is a big hoax played on us.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Men, Hoaxes, Nonsense

  Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 482, 2005.

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• So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Moving, Reality, Serenity

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• To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.

  David Whyte

  Reality, Identity, Weakness

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• About 80 percent of the stuff I live with is old. I like letting things take on the character they’re meant to have by really being used. … when you own things that have the imperfections they deserve, that they’ve earned from a well-lived life, it frees you from feeling as though they’re untouchable.

  Nate Berkus

  Character, Imperfection, Feelings

  "Nate Berkus: Why You Should Break the Rules When Decorating Your Home". Interview with Lisa Kogan, February 8, 2011.

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• Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle - and not just in the sense of money, by the way. The Beatles are untouchable. That’s just a joke.

  Bono

  Boys, Way, Billionaire

  "Bono, Facebook IPO: U2 Singer To Become The World’s Richest Musician (UPDATED)" by Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Simple, Years, Two

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.

  Kathy Reichs

  Home, Female, Safe

  Kathy Reichs (2015). “Deja Dead: A Novel”, p.597, Simon and Schuster

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• Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable

  Ben Elton

  Beautiful, Real, Imagination

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• But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Blue

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• Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Ache, Sad Love

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• And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouchable or whether you were born in this city or arrived only this morning or whether you live in Malabar Hill or New York or Jogeshwari; whether you’re from Bombay or Mumbai or New York. All they know is that you’re trying to get to the city of gold, and that’s enough. Come on board, they say. We’ll adjust.

  Suketu Mehta

  Christian, Morning, New York

  "Bombay can take it" by Salil Tripathi, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2006.

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• It took my breath away, that evening. If you've ever dreamed that you walked into your best-loved book or film or TV program, then maybe you've got some idea how it felt: things coming alive around you, strange and new and utterly familiar at the same time; the catch in your heartbeat as you move through the rooms that had such a vivid untouchable life in your mind, as your feet actually touch the carpet, as you breathe the air; the odd, secret glow of warmth as these people you've been watching for so long, from so far away, open their circle and sweep you into it.

  Tana French

  Moving, Book, Feet

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• I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I can hurt people. But I hate that part of myself, because it is the part of me that is the most broken

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Hate, People

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• Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Dying, Decay

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

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• Glamour is an attitude-it's the expression of a certain kind of confidence. A glamorous woman is always elegant, but she also possesses an air of mystery and excitement. She's dramatic-almost untouchable.

  Ralph Lauren

  Attitude, Air, Expression

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• My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

  Bill Shankly

  Ideas, Giving, World

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• Never stop fighting till the fight is done.

  Eliot Ness

  Fighting, Done, Never Stop Fighting

  "Fictional character: Eliot Ness". "The Untouchables", 1987.

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• I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.

  Brion Gysin

  Crazy, Real, Night

  Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.77, The Overlook Press

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• Stay wise and the mind is untouchable.

  Rakim

  Wise, Mind, Adages

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• I can criticize your religion all I want, and you can criticize mine. I don't like this whole climate of, 'You can't ever say anything bad about the group I'm in, cause every group is untouchable.' We can all criticize each other and engage in debate all we want.

  Kathy Griffin

  Say Anything, Climate, Groups

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• I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach.

  George Carlin

  Children, Thinking, Law

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  India, Way, Shame

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