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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He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
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He whom loves 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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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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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 who love touches walks not in darkness.
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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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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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I’m pretty happy when what I’m doing touches people and inspires people.
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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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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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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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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
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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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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
