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Quotes About Gesture

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.
~ Ruta Sepetys
Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.
~ Henry Wriston
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
~ Viggo Mortensen
In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.
~ Perry Brass
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
~ Plautus
Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
~ Mason Cooley
One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.
~ Boman Irani
The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
~ Adolf Loos
A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
~ Ettore Sottsass
My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.
~ David Ulevitch
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
~ Oliver Herford
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature.
~ Ken Wilber
The peace sign is with two fingers not one.
~ Meg Cabot
To build the bridges of love, extend your hands of kindness.
~ Debasish Mridha
Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.
~ Jane Wagner
And I'm also talking about kindness, not just about being nice. You can be gruff or abrupt and still be kind. Kindness has much more to do with what you do than how you do it.
~ Will Schwalbe
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
~ William Arthur Ward
He was holding a tray. On the tray were two glasses of milky Indian chai. 'Chota hazari, sahib,' said Ladoo. Bed tea. 'What a nice gesture,' I said returning to Olivia. 'Mrs Puri has sent us up some tea.' 'I wish she had sent it up two hours later,' said Olivia from beneath her sheets.
~ William Dalrymple
IF YOU WANT A DOG TO STOP KISSING YOU, turn your head away silently like another dog.
~ William Lashner
She just went on eating her apple, shaking her head, and looking us over with that calculating, almost contemptuous, look she has at certain times." "Oh, I know! I know!" said Christine. "I've seen that look so many times!
~ William March
He hit McMaster twice, with the left from fear, with the right from courtesy.
~ William McIlvanney
Pourquoi sommes-nous autant marqués par un détail, un geste, qui font de ces instants minimes le coeur d'une époque?
~ David Foenkinos