Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.

Sarah Rees Brennan

I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie

Walter Benjamin

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

Henry Rollins

Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

Pope Francis

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

Natsuki Takaya

He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!

Terence McKenna

Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

Holly Black

She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.

Rudyard Kipling

King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre.

David Fink

Know what you want. Become your real self.

Keisha Brown

John knows what it takes to win and be a leader. He has the desire to win and he always steps up as a leader. Sometimes in the locker room, I don't need to say what needs to be said because John has already done it for me.

Chris Gordon

J.R. expressed a desire to be a part of something on (The Team) again.

Steve Cleveland

He just lost his desire to play competitively. I have full respect for that. We wish him the very best.

Sigi Schmid

He is the type of player that has a tremendous desire to win. He needs to be an example to our younger players. He needs to be a vocal player, but he can't do any of that until he gets on the field, so first he needs to get healthy.

Dan Gilroy

I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

Dar Williams

What do you love more than loveWhen you question what your desire is forWhen you don't just figureThat you just want more.

Edward Felten

It is not legitimate to undermine the user's desire to secure their own computer. I don't think they should be hiding files and programs and registry entries from the system administrator, ever.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Samuel Johnson

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.

William Blake

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Winston Churchill

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Rebecca Solnit

Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

Mary Renault

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

Mary Baker Eddy

Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson is not awaiting thee. Therefore despair not nor murmur, for that which seeketh to save, to heal, and to deliver, will guide thee, if thou seekest this guidance.

Mario Vargas Llosa

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Mary McCarthy

In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them and may even be driven to kill ourselves if the separation, the "knowledge," seems sufficiently final.