Touches Quotes
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Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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I believe she imbued my body thus, finding every touch enhanced by ambiguity of intention, as if it too required translation, and so each touch branched out, became a variety of touches.
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When I was 9, I saw a wrestler on television named Gorgeous George. He said, "I'm beautiful. I'm so pretty that if a sucker touches my face, I'll kill him. If he messes with my hair, I'll pummel him." I said to myself, "That's a good idea. I am the greatest, I'm pretty." And then I took it a little further than he did.
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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.
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He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.
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And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was happening outside? When I saw an external object, my awareness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, lining it with a thin spiritual border that prevented me from ever directly touching its substance; it would volatize in some way before I could make contact with it, just as an incandescent body brought near a wet object never touches its moisture because it is always preceded by a zone of evaporation.
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Everything touches me—I see too much, I hear too much, everything demands too much of me.
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He who love touches walks not in darkness.
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I’m pretty happy when what I’m doing touches people and inspires people.
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I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
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The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
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Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.
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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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Everybody touches the basketball on offense for us. We don't run plays for particular people. We expect everybody to score and contribute defensively.
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I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Meet me where the sky touches the sea. Wait for me where the world begins.
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As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches.
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While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.
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When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.
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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
