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Quotes About Touching

My story, gracious ladies, will not be of folk of so high a rank as those of whom Elisa has told us, but perchance 'twill not be less touching. 'Tis brought to my mind by the recent mention of Messina, where the matter befell.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Eve teasing," the sexual harassment and touching that women may suffer in public, was what my college friends traveled in groups to avoid.
~ Gloria Steinem
the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
~ James Crumley
It is a touching story, and it is written more to convince than to tell. I am not convinced.
~ James Frey
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.
~ Jermaine Jackson
As for the tokens whereof thou ask me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee.
~ Compton Gage
When a word of God is spoken it will always be personal and yet we will find it touching the lives of others in some most amazing ways
~ John M Sheehan
The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.
~ Hans Arp
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.
~ H. L. Mencken
Don't move. I like this ledge of loose diamonds waiting to be spilled into the night. Let's shine awhile without touching. Sensuality is, after all, a river that is always waiting.
~ Tess Gallagher
Sounds to me like those nails are touching too much gray matter.
~ Clive Barker
The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
~ Laura Schlessinger
He works on instinct, Agent Travers." "Does instinct include touching evidence without gloves? And looking like Charlie Manson on crack?" "Sometimes. Perhaps. I don't think one really knows.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
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
He looked closely into Vyvyan's round and smiling face and said solemnly, "Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.
~ Gyles Brandreth
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
~ Park Geun-hye
I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
~ Nathan Sawaya
'The Notebook' made me cry! It got me.
~ James Marsden
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
~ Charles Lamb
When you say you experience my writing as sacred what you are touching is the divine place within me that is my mother. Sugar is the temple I built in my obliterated place.
~ Cheryl Strayed
I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.
~ Jane Green
In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'
~ Andrew Haigh
It is only the sacred things that are worth touching, Dorian
~ Oscar Wilde