They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.
Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.
I like to touch people's hearts.
We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.
The left has lost the common touch.
We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.
Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.
What I see is tellin me this world's gone crazy, but, What is real says God's still on His throne, What I need is to remember one thing, that the Lord of the gentle breeze is Lord of the rough and tumble, and he is the King of the jungle.
You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.
At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.
I can photograph someone if I can touch them.
I wouldn't touch Chimbonda with a barn door
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry
Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.
Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand.
In every queen there's a touch of floozy.
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport;
By his own talents he worked his undoing.
Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved,
Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.
Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics.
The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.
God's chief way of acting is by persuasion and patience and long-suffering, not by coercion and stark confrontation. He acts by gentle solicitation and by sweet enticement. He always acts with unfailing respect for the freedom and independence that we possess.
Thought is just an apprehension of touch.
My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.
I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
I enjoy humor with a poignant touch.
Like, at the gym, I don't touch my phone.
You have the sense of touch because you need it.
I'm a big believer that if you touch it, you can believe in it.
If it don't touch my soul then I can't listen to it.
It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
There are a lot of people who touch the customer.
To touch the surface is to stir the depths.
Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.
Please, touch me, I pray.
Get smart and nothing can touch you.
Everything I touch turns to gold.
As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.
You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
O gentle vision in the dawn:
My spirit over faint cool water glides,
Child of the day,
To thee;
And thou art drawn
By kindred impulse over silver tides
The dreamy way
To me.
I never touch fast food.
When you touch me, good God.
You touch me and I'll kick you in the rear.
There are always safe spaces. You can be a beacon for other people who are struggling. It's hard to put your heart out there and put it in other peoples' hands. But the receiving end is gentle.
No one will ever touch Elvis
I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
I'm in touch with the social networks and stuff.
Dance should touch people.
She sent him a warm and gentle wind, and Lord Odysseus was happy as he set his sails to catch the breeze. He sat beside the steering oar and used his skill to steer the raft.
Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! *It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.*
It's a cold world when no one will touch you.
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
To touch somebody’s heart with design.
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