Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Yehudi Menuhin

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Terry Tempest Williams

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

Lee J. Cobb

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it.

Katherine Heigl

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

Bernhard Schlink

It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

Sam Shepard

Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

Craig Newmark

Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

Howard Zinn

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

Dean Gilmour

He has a woman dress up like a boy in order to make a deep connection with the object of her affection. In the disguise, she can really be herself. We put on a mask to be more ourselves; we hide to reveal. This is the great contradiction about the art of acting, in fact.

Rick Carlisle

He has an affinity for the 'everyman' type of player, ... He's been here the last two summers working out with summer league players. It's something he has a liking for.

William Bennett

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

Zara Phillips

I'm an affectionate person.

David Whyte

In the poetic tradition, the heart's affections are indeed holy, and if organizations are asking for people's hearts and minds, they are asking in a way for their holy and hidden affections at the same time.

John Humphrys

In fact nobody has ever complained about the sorts of things I say because it is done with affection and is obviously light-hearted,

Wayne Fields

In the early stages, it showed affection for the president. But now what you want is somebody with maturity and confidence who doesn't need that kind of assurance.

William Shea

I'm both gratified and a little surprised at the on-rush of sentiment and affection for him that we've seen. You would suppose that in these circumstances a lot of hyperbole goes on, and I'm just not seeing that. This affection for Tim pre-existed these circumstances.