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Quotes About Touch

Maybe they are intended to be images about emptiness,' said the man solemnly. 'I think that's something the kids are very much in touch with right now.' 'How can you be in touch with emptiness?' asked Patrick.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
With our touch, Jesus becomes our scapegoat. In his touch, Jesus takes our sin and absorbs our shame (Psalm 69:9; Romans 15:3), and we receive his righteousness. If you prefer symmetry in your relationships, in which you give a gift of similar value to the one you receive, you have not yet touched Jesus.
~ Edward T. Welch
You never expected that God himself would, by his representatives, actually come close to unclean people and touch them. The Holy One is not human. The triune God is not human. Don't limit God's character by your expectations of what a decent human king might do. You expect God to reject; he accepts. You expect him to turn away; he turns toward.
~ Edward T. Welch
Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Mais qu'avons-nous tous, pauvres humains, à vouloir nous serrer contre un autre corps ?
~ Albert Cohen
nada más triste que beber alcohol a solas porque hay una necesidad urgente de tocar manos y oír canciones y guitarras
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Cuando te acaricié me dí cuenta que había vivido toda mi vida con las manos vacías.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
That night I lay in bed, remembering the moment when her hand touched mine. I wondered what it would be like to have her touch me not by accident, to maybe have her let me touch her.
~ Alex Flinn
Clever, clever cat. He knew precisely what to say. And how to touch, she acknowledged, as his fingers moved from her ass to trace the curve of her waist. "My need for dominance doesn't bother you?" she pressed, knowing his answer was important. Her cat would never be happy in a subservient role. "Let's say I'm willing to compromise," he said, the rasp of his breath filling the air. "I don't always have to be on top.
~ Alexandra Ivy
It's a different style the way the German players play. I think the English players like to play a lot of one and two touch and we can find each other in the pockets.
~ Reiss Nelson
There's going to be a lot of collaborative social experiences with Rift and Touch.
~ Brendan Iribe
The rules of comedy are, don't complain, it's a brilliant job. You complain, and you're seen as losing touch with reality.
~ Lee Mack
I played as a 10 and, in Sweden, they let me take as many touches as I could. All of a sudden, I come to Arsenal and I have to play one and two touches - it was a little bit alien to me.
~ Freddie Ljungberg
Unlike art, the making of home does not stay done. Every morning, every evening, the mess awaits us. The messy, hungry, beautiful world, wanting and needing our touch.
~ Rebecca McClanahan
Every other way is like that -- him waiting for something to happen to him, daring somebody to do something nice such as come up and touch him just so he could say, 'Why in the world did you do that?' and hold on tight till whoever bothered him vanished -- and nothing about him since has ever surprised me.
~ Reynolds Price
Son el revés del rey Midas, hay que ver el talento que tienen para convertir en mierda lo que tocan.
~ Ricardo Garibay
By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.
~ Richard Aldington
He either fears his fate too much / Or his deserts are small / That puts it not unto the touch / To win or lose it all.
~ Richard Cohen
The symbolism of the action has been replaced by the reality of the touch.
~ Richard Cohen
We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero's shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.
~ Richard Siken
Slowly he lifted his hands in the darkness and held them in mid-air, the fingers spread weakly open. If he reached out with his hands, and if his hands were electric wires, and if his heart were a battery giving life and fire to those hands, and if he reached out with his hands and touched other people, reached out through these stone walls and felt other hands connected with other hearts -- if he did that, would there be a reply, a shock?
~ Richard Wright
Poison! Grover yelped. Don't let those things touch you or... Or we'll die? I guessed. Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes. Let's avoid the swords, I decided.
~ Rick Riordan
Akhlys lunged at Percy, and for a split second he thought: Well, hey, I'm just smoke. She can't touch me, right? He imagined the Fates up in Olympus, laughing at his wishful thinking: LOL, NOOB!
~ Rick Riordan
She (Annabeth) put her hand on my spine, and my skin tingled. I (Percy) moved her fingers to the one spot that grounded me to my mortal life. A thousand volts of electricity seemed to arc through my body.
~ Rick Riordan