Quotes About Presence

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

I do not want to see the whole Egyptian people feel protected by my presence. They really have to fight for their freedom whether I'm there or not.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

I am less interested in tearing down the veil than in pointing to its presence.

I didn't hear you come in. I was away with the ghosts of my beautiful youth.

I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.

My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under his chair.

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains...

their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

I just think of people, she continued, whether they seem right where they are and fit into a picture. I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when people do anything.

Deepest of all in her personality was the golden radiance that she diffused around her. As an open fire in a dark room throws romance and pathos into the quiet faces at its edge, so she cast her lights and shadows around the rooms that held her.

Don't ever phone if you can possibly come yourself. Don't ever leave if you can stay.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

When a girl feels that she's perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That's charm. The more parts of yourself you can afford to forget the more charm you have.

she awoke often to lie and wish for that presence beside her—inanimate yet breathing—still Jeff.

Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

They stood an uncomfortable little group weighted down by Abe's gigantic presence: he lay athwart them like the wreck of a galleon, dominating with his presence his own weakness and self-indulgence, his narrowness and bitterness. All of them were conscious of the solemn dignity that flowed from him, of his achievement, fragmentary, suggestive and surpassed. But they were frightened at his surviving will, once a will to love, now become a will to die.

I tried to go then, but they wouldn't hear it; perhaps my presence made them feel more satisfactorily alone.

Tenemos que aprender a demostrarle nuestra amistad a un hombre cuando está vivo y no después de muerto

They are glad to see each other now – their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

He felt so intensely about people that in moments of apathy he preferred to remain concealed; that one could parade a casualness into his presence was a challenge to the key on which he lived