Quotes About Contact

Anglo-Saxon and Franco-Norman came into closer contact, and the linguistic survival techniques on both sides led to the emergence of a supple, adaptable language in which you could invent or half-borrow words and didn't have to worry so much about whether your sentences had the right verb endings or respected certain strict rules of word order and style (as this sentence proves). The result was the earliest form of what would become English.

If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans.

There's a sick joke that the reason we have not been contacted by an alien civilization is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves when they reach our stage. But I have sufficient faith in the good sense of public to believe that we might prove this wrong.

DeVries is correct in his judgment that duration of life dropped sharply upon contact with civilization.

The Vikings could have been saved if they had borrowed survival strategies from the Inuit, but the only record we have of contact between the two peoples is the remark from a Viking settler that the Inuit bleed a lot when stabbed - an observation that hardly indicates a willingness to learn from their northern neighbors.

They were like animals, men. They found too much direct contact threatening

I could easily become one of those people who so crave human contact that they talk inappropriately to other passengers on trains or spend ten minutes picking things in a shop so they can chat to the assistant. I

So, for instance, the law of the red heifer – purification from contact with the dead – occurs just before the death of Miriam and Aaron, as if to say: Bereavement and grief interfere with our contact with God but this does not last forever. We can become pure again. The story explains the law, and the law illuminates the story.

The result may be important but it's not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

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Though the anima figure also has transpersonal characteristics, she is closer to the ego, and contact with her is not only possible, but is the source of all fruitfulness.

She touched his sleeve, drawing her hand away at once, as if burned by the contact, but with practiced subtlety.

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Tim was the Fed's principal contact with Fuld.

When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.

The way football has evolved in some of the bigger leagues in the world, you'd have to say there has become a bigger distance between the contact that you have, for everybody really. It's quite refreshing actually to experience something as simplistic as enjoying winning a game, and the players and the fans being together.

We have different rules in Europe and that makes the game different. In regards to contact, there are more things allowed overseas. You can do a lot more 'dirty' stuff.

The longer a region is in contact with modern civilization, the higher the degree to which the society in the region is civilized.

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

I love big hits.

So, my role on an NBA basketball team was the defensive stopper, was to be the most physical player on the team. I love that role. I love contact. I love hitting.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

When you think about the worst places humans come into contact with, they are often our health environments.

The Benefactors could not have known our character before you sent your ships into the Earth's system…