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Touching Quotes (page 11)

But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?"Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power. Joan D. Vinge
My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been convinced that, if these men could have gone into the South and taken up and become interested in some practical work which would have brought them in touch with people and things, the whole world would have looked very different to them. Bad as conditions might have seemed at first, when they saw that actual progress was being made, they would have... Booker T. Washington
She was afraid to touch the dictionary Oki was even there. Innumerable words reminded her of him. To link whatever she saw and heard with her love was nothing less than to be alive. Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace. Yasunari Kawabata
But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees. Robert A. Heinlein
Thee'th not to be touched, the goat screamed, spraying spittle all over Zollo. Thee hath to be a maid, you foolth! Thee'th worth a bag of thapphireth! George R. R. Martin
Thomas Hardy quote: "The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent..."
The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful. Thomas Hardy
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." "The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. Helen Keller
Virgil quote: "Here, too, the honorable finds its dueand there are tears for..."
Here, too, the honorable finds its dueand there are tears for passing things; here, too,things mortal touch the mind. Virgil
Edith Hamilton quote: "For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love..."
For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness. Edith Hamilton
The book answers questions other people have thought of. I have thought of questions they have not answered. I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance. Maybe my questions matter. Elizabeth Moon
Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye-lids curve over chaos. My handswhere they touch you, createsmall inhabited islandssoon you will beall earth: a known land, a country. Margaret Atwood
Ayn Rand quote: "Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are..."
Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched. Ayn Rand
Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week."And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized. He grinned and touched his can to mine. Stephenie Meyer
I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and rather spectacular, and I thought I would carry them around with me, like the relic of a dead lover, till they wore off of their own accord. Sylvia Plath
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was. Toni Morrison

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