Quotes About Contact

A slightly more conscious awareness of writing as compensation may lend us energy to acknowledge our unrequited ache for more visceral forms of contact.

But few black parents had any substantial contact with the school. Rist doubts their assessment would have been so positive had they been "really aware" of what was happening to their children.

La « classe mobilisée » ou perçue comme mobilisable et donc idéalisée, héroïsée même, diffère des individus qui la composent Ã¢â'¬â€œ ou la composent potentiellement. Et je détestais de plus en plus me retrouver au contact immédiat de ce qu'étaient Ã¢â'¬â€œ de ce que sont – les classes populaires.

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.

I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful.

Because memory cannot be adequately utilized to retain an image, the borderline forgets what the object of his concern looks like, sounds like, feels like. To escape the panicky sensation of abandonment and loneliness, the borderline tries to cling desperately—calling, writing, using any means to maintain contact.

When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?

Humans in the developed world spend more than 90 percent of their lives indoors, where they breathe in and come into contact with trillions of life forms invisible to the naked eye: microorganisms.

Don't lose the address," he said to Bucher. "Be a pity if we lost touch with one another.

Starting in 1897, Henry Havelock Ellis devoted six volumes to it: his pioneering Studies in the Psychology of Sex, sprinkled with case studies of unexpected explicitness and perversity. One memorable phrase from volume four, Sexual Selection in Man: "the contact of a dog's tongue with her mouth alone afterward sufficed to evoke sexual pleasure.

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.

But the whole idea of knowledge, even, or especially, of oneself and one's own inner states, attained by direct contact and not dependent on theoretical and conceptual assumptions, is absurd.

how long now it would be before we would see the enemy, and listening all the while for the first noises that would signal that ever mysterious event called contact

The serving that we are called to requires direct contact. You cannot wash the feet of a dirty world if you refuse to touch it.

In our world of instant communication, we supplement our relationships with an assortment of technological devices in the hope that all these gizmos will strengthen our connections. This social frenzy masks a profound hunger for human contact.

So many "emotional affairs" are pulsing with sexual tension, regardless of whether genitals have made contact, and giving them a new label seems to me to promote erotic reductionism. Clearly, affairs can be sexual without involving a penis entering a vagina, and in such cases, it is more helpful to call a spade a spade.

Two percent of the population is sociopathic. They just don't feel the way you or I do about others. If you come in contact with fifty people in a day, one of them is a sociopath.

I felt my hands quiver at the unexpected contact. I... wasn't used to being touched in a way that didn't involve violence, at least not in the last few years. It helped that it was Sera. I pictured when we'd held hands as children. It had been perfectly normal, even comforting, when we were little. I hadn't associated touching with pain back then.

Où nos héros arrivent à Münsterberg lors d'un tournoi de chevalerie très européen. Pour Reynevan, ce contact avec l'Europe s'avère triste. Bah ! Douloureux même.

And that brief contact allowed her to believe that her colleagues were wrong. She did have friends. She did have a life away from the job.

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.