Touch Quotes - page 2

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. (Anthony Sampson)
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming. View quote
William James
Those who marry God can become domesticated too it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night. View quote
Graham Greene
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
The history of science is rich in the example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air. View quote
Robert Frost
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine. (Samuel Johnson)
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. View quote
George W. Bush
You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am. View quote
Gene Simmons
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us and we must walk that road to the end. View quote
Neil Gaiman
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. View quote
John Dryden
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see You hang around cafTs. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there. View quote
Richard Bach
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul. View quote
George Harrison
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. (Oscar Wilde)
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit touch it, and the bloom is gone. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive-that you can touch the miracle of being alive-then that is a kind of enlightenment. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive. View quote
Nhat Hanh