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“And it is the way with us that you may express disapproval of the sun or the moon, or anything you like, but God preserve you from touching the Liberals! Heaven forbid!”

Way May Heaven Sun Moon Preserves Touching Disapproval

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

“A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.”

Men Needs Self Mother Wish Environment Delusion Touching Helplessness Amiable Self Delusion

Book:In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

“Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.”

Middle Bottom Touching Neurotic Back Again

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.”

Men Beautiful Next Literature Tree Objects Touching Longevity Wounded Living Things Admirable

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.”

Mind Humor Funny Hair Bears Humorous Tolerance Touching Intolerance Tolerate Familiarity Baldness

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.”

“If you had told me 28 years ago that the largest organization in the world touching the lives of gays and lesbians would be a church, I would not have believed you.”

Ifs World Years Would Be Church Gay Years Ago Organization Touching

Author:Troy Perry

“An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time-but, like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal.”

Looks Might Sides Goal Lines Rights Progress Mathematical Touching Infinity Passages Accurate Curves Loops Passage Of Time American Woman Charting

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“"Ideals are like stars," Carl Schurz wrote. "You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like seafarers on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny." Ideals do not determine what we do to make a living in life; They govern what we become as we do it.”

Hands Stars Water Destiny Succeed Ideals Determine Following Guides Desert Touching You Choose Our Destiny Your Destiny

Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its inevitable difficulties. How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see, the words of love you hear, and the life you feel touching your body and soul, then you know you have discovered the great value of misfortune.”

Source: Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life

“Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.”

Writing Talking Touching Punching

Author:Susan Sontag

“When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing.”

Writing Ideas Stuff Brain Four Nice Fingers Hearing Touching Contrast Limbs Feedback Involving Converting Drumming

Author:Michael Azerrad

“Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.”

People Two Together Perfect Harmony Dancing Touching Ballroom Ballroom Dancing Perfect Harmony

Author:Anton du Beke

“Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.”

Ifs Doe Support Pages Paid Lists Copies Touching Site

Author:Marco Arment

“Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.”

“The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.”

Feels Hands Seems Stage Reflection Scripts Glasses Flames Touching Helpless

Author:Terence Fisher

“I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can't help, but touch myself.”

I Can Helping Imagine Touching Masturbation Thoughts Of You Private Parts

Author:Toni Braxton

“It's exciting to think that something I'm involved in is touching so many people in so many cultures.”

People Thinking Culture Involved Exciting Touching

Author:Paul Guilfoyle

“A lot of times, as an actor, especially a TV or film actor, you don't get a lot of interaction, or you don't get the feeling you are actually touching someone, or someone actually cares about what you do.”

Feelings Care Film Actors Tvs Touching Interaction Film Actors

Author:Christopher Judge

“I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.”

Thinking Want Persons Sun Poison Touching

Author:Rachel Kushner

“Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.”

Soul Spirit My Soul Touching Rock And Roll Unfolding

Author:John Lennon

“Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you.”

Hands Song Sex Reaching Touching Reach Out Singer Songwriters Lyrical Touching You

Author:Neil Diamond

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