It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?
Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.
I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
Music does communicate across language and racial and religious and philosophical barriers. It is one of the most distilled forms of human emotions.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
I've been distilled to this computer nerd.
But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.
Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.
Your experience of life is to a large part distilled into your performing. As you grow older, you concentrate on aspects of music that you perhaps only touched on earlier.
All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
A good poem is an amazing thing: a perfectly distilled, articulate moment. It opens you up - sometimes slowly, like the blooming of a flower, and sometimes with a quick knife-slice.
In prayerful sympathy and love. Hold to the old truth -- double distilled.
"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.
A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
After Ive enjoyed a floral bouquet to its fullest, I drop a few petals in a bottle with distilled water to create my own soothing toner.
If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
I can't negotiate and collaborate with a character to create a distilled dramatic investigation of the raw material. I need to work with an actor. That stuff about actors who stay in character all the time is nonsense.
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.
I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Throughout my career, I have been confronted with people who have doubted my ability to achieve the dreams and ambitions distilled into my soul by my father.
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.
Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.
I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration.
For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
I've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die!
Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.
A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up."
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.
And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
There are countless books written on self-defense. Not all are non- sensical, but many are. Nathaniel Cooke has clearly thought a great deal about the subject and distilled its essence in a way that is wholly admirable.
Poetry is life distilled.
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
Distilled down, it is pretty simple, the only way to overcome shyness is to allow yourself to be vulnerable and nothing made me as vulnerable as unconditional love.
The TV Tropes QC page is every single idiotic comment from my forums distilled into one HTML document.
Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.
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