Quotes of Touching - somelinesforyou

“ On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting,'Twas only that when he was off, he was acting. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. ”

- Ben Hecht

“ Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere. ”

- Corrie ten Boom

“ It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there. ”

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

“ I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. ”

- William Ernest Hocking

“ States are great engines moving slowly. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country. ”

- Ian Rush

“ To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. ”

- Richard Thompson

“ Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate. ”

- Geena Davis

“ She said, 'We need truck drivers and National Guard,'... I'll get moving on it. ”

- Bill Richardson

“ The Shepherd and the Wolf A shepherd once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The Wolf, having shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd, Since you have taught me to steal, you must keep a sharp lookout, or you will lose some of your own flock. ”

- Aesop

“ I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason. ”

- Paula Poundstone

“ I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them. ”

- Titus Livius

“ There isnothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs. ”

- Diana Nyad

“ The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. ”

- Warren Bennis

“ He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ Holding hands is a very intimate thing to do, she found herself whispering. Even to hold a child's hand. It's very touching. ”

- Cynthia Propper

“ My father … lived as if he were poured of iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching. ”

- Mari E. Evans

“ Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. ”

- Elizabeth Bowen

“ Romance, like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ”

- George William Curtis

“ 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. ”

- R. Briffault

“ The most touching epitaph I ever encountered was on the tombstone of the printer of Edinburgh. It said simply: "He kept down the cost and set the type right.". ”

- Gregory Nunn

“ The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching. ”

- Yoshida Kenkō

“ There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith… Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop. ”

- Noel Coward

“ I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop. ”

- Noel Coward

“ You can seduce a man without taking anything off, without even touching him. ”

- Rae Dawn Chong

“ I cannot forget that, just as my life was touching its fullest flower, love came and destroyed it all in a single hour. ”

- Laurence Hope

“ It's always very touching when you find a character on the screen who is fiercely defending your character. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. ”

- John O’Hara
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