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Quotes About Gesture

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me, don't you, Mouse?" "Nope!" "Ahhh, I'm hurt. Nobody likes me.
~ Ilona Andrews
Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.
~ Indro Montanelli
He took a strand of hair that had fallen loose from her chignon between his fingers. The gesture shocked her, not because his self-control seemed to have snapped, but the exact opposite - it felt like a deliberate choice on his part.
~ Sherry Thomas
Perhaps he should have brought her something. Flowers. Or cake, if she had managed to reverse Maximum Tolerable Chins.
~ Sherry Thomas
Acting, Dickens and his contemporaries believed, was the art of gesture, no more and no less.
~ Simon Callow
Hands have their own language.
~ Simon Van Booy
When he smiles, they mostly look away. But Martin likes to think they carry his smile for a few blocks – that even the smallest gesture is something grand.
~ Simon Van Booy
If no words come, you can always give him the finger.
~ Simone Elkeles
I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.
~ Esai Morales
Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.
~ John L'Heureux
She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag, and right then and there, he fell in love." -Animal Magnetism
~ Jill Shalvis
If you really want to tell someone you love them, you don't just go and blurt it out. There's a dance. And your movie does that.
~ Cary Fukunaga
That's when Steve bent down and kissed her.
~ Maureen Johnson
Instead, he gestured to the DJ, who deemed Single Ladies to be the correct jam for this particular car crash of a moment.
~ Maureen Johnson
The goddamn kid just sat there and out of the blue thrust his middle finger in the air and waved it at Jon with a brazen defiance only ten-year-olds and Nazis can muster.
~ Max Allan Collins
when this engineer, Sergeant Mukherjee, grabbed me by the arm
~ Max Brooks
I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
~ Maya Angelou
Impulsively, she leaned across the truck and kissed him on the cheek. He glanced over in surprise when she pulled away, but pleasure glowed in his eyes. What was that for? Just seemed like the thing to do, she said. Well, feel free to do it more often, he encouraged. I assure you I won't mind.
~ Maya Banks
He walked hesitantly toward her and then wrapped his arms around her in a gentle hug. "You just looked like you needed one," he said.
~ Maya Banks
He laughed against her, his chest rumbling with the effort. "Well, right now we're going to go eat breakfast and afterward I'm taking you shopping for some clothes. And if that doesn't say I love you, I don't know what does. I don't go shopping for anyone.
~ Maya Banks
to Graeme, kissing was almost as intimate as the act of lovemaking itself. It wasn't something to be hurried or to be offered as a token to woo a reluctant lass. It was an expression of regard.
~ Maya Banks
Hasn't anyone ever told you," Jesse asked, in a semi-amused voice, " that a gentleman never lays a hand on a lady?" Which I thought was kind of funny, considering where Jesse had had his hand the last time I'd seen him. But I thought it better to let that slide.
~ Meg Cabot