Touching People Quotes

Don't make the effort to appeal to logic and reasoning all the time; very few people can relate to that. Appeal to emotions instead; everyone, at least, can relate to that. ~ Ufuoma Apoki

Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and I'm thinking, Is this really worth it? Or am I doing this only because my mother taught me never to give up? Then you realize, no, even if it doesn't come back to you, you are touching people. ~ Micah Lexier

I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people. ~ David Bowie

Some people fall in love with their co-stars and feel things that they never thought they would feel for them because they are touching. ~ Catherine Deneuve

Sports have a way of touching people. ~ Joan Ryan

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. ~ Gavin Bryars

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost. ~ Jill Scott

One gets used to success very quickly. The surprise was how deep and enduringly I was touching people, in such different places and throughout generations. ~ Michel Ocelot

In high fashion, we're always accused of doing things that are not very relevant, not the real world. I know that it's important sometimes to do fantasy, but I felt like touching people and going back to different women and men, especially the idea of different ages and body shapes. ~ Alber Elbaz

The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know? ~ Jon Brion

I always train heavy and it worked well for me. I always train heavy and put on size for a competition. Most people would be worried about an injury but if you're gonna worry about it so much, it's gonna happen anyway. ~ Ronnie Coleman

The leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril. ~ Sun Tzu

Meeting new people is just remembering faces of God we've forgotten. ~ Harry Whitewolf

Bangkok is one of the world's great cities, all of which own red-light districts that find their ways into the pages of novels from time to time. The sex industry in Thailand is smaller per capita because the Thais are less coy about it than many other people. Most visitors to the kingdom enjoy wonderful vacations without coming across any evidence of sleaze at all ~ John Burdett

When people say, 'But what is acceptable in erotica?' I sometimes answer them by saying: there are certain taboos and limits in writing about sex as a positive, enjoyable, blissful, exciting activity. There are no taboos and limits whatsoever to describing the same sexual activities if they are traumatic, horrible, full of suffering and disgust. You can describe anything. ~ Senta Holland

I worry that I upset people without meaning to. I worry that I don't check my privilege enough. I worry about people being imprisoned for crimes they didn't do. I worry about human rights abuses. I worry about prejudice and politics and pollution and the world my children, and their entire generation, are inheriting from us. I worry about all of the species going extinct because of humans. I worry about my carbon footprint. I worry about all of the pain in the world that I am not actively able to stop. I worry about how much I'm wrapped up in myself, which makes me even more wrapped up in myself. ~ Matt Haig

People have too many theories about raising children. I believe simply in love, security, and discipline. ~ Shelly Branch

You can't imagine how much I hated middle school. Remember the way people would look at you blankly and say, "Um, okaaay," after you finished talking? Everyone just had to make it so clear that, whatever you were thinking or feeling, you were totally alone. The worst part, of course, was that I did the same thing to other people. It makes me a little nauseated just remembering that. ~ Becky Albertalli

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family. ~ Busy Philipps

You ask some people to say grace and that's it! The food gets cold but their prayer doesn't end. ~ Paul Silway

I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there. ~ Sasha Alexander

You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do. ~ Drew Magary

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't. ~ Angus Wilson

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world ... would do this, it would change the earth. ~ William Faulkner

The deepest cuts are given by the people who are nearest to you. Why? Because they can. ~ Kapil Raj

You may not understand this, but I don't think it matters killing people so long as you don't hate them. I also think that there are times when you can only show your feeling of brotherhood for someone else by killing him, or trying to. I believe most ordinary people feel this and would make a peace in that sense if they had any say in the matter. There has been very little popular resistance to this war, and also very little hatred. It is a job that has to be done. ~ George Orwell

Writing is not a job description. A great deal of it is luck. Don't do it if you are not a gambler because a lot of people devote many years of their lives to it (for little reward). I think people become writers because they are compulsive wordsmiths. ~ Margaret Atwood

Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do. ~ Jenny Lawson

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics. ~ Zosia Mamet

So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer. ~ Mel Torme

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard. ~ Mahmoud Abbas

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience. ~ Bernice Johnson Reagon

I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if everyone had the luxury of expressing the unique combinations of talents in this world, our society would be transformed overnight. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country. ~ Khem Veasna

There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families. ~ Mary Crosby

The best place to hide an item was on your person. But when you couldn't manage that, the next best place was to hie it in plain view. People searched there last. ~ Nadine Brandes

Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.' ~ Ellen Stofan

I decided to become a surgeon named Bernie who writes books and gives seminars to teach people what he has learned and is still learning about how to deal with life's difficulties. ~ Bernie Siegel

You know what I hate most of all in the whole wide world? ... More than people who think that if you're bisexual it means you'll fuck absolutely anyone (especially them)? ~ Alan Cumming

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom. ~ George Pataki

I would never ever, ever, ever, ever do it again [All My Children]. It was the scariest thing I've ever done. I have such respect for people who do it, who can do it. What happened was they caught me at a good moment. I could use the money and this came along and it was with Susan and I thought, Susan Lucci. I have to do this. ~ Richard Masur

People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are ~ Charles Dickens

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. ~ Lawrence Durrell

So my hope and prayer is that people will be impacted by the realization that miracles are everywhere and that God uses them to communicate to us that we're not alone, and that we do have help. ~ DeVon Franklin

That name was a sadistic play on the Underground Railroad that smuggled American slaves north. The old Nazis set up their own version and used it mainly to move their people. They called it Die Spinne. ~ John Pearce

Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. ~ Anonymous

Maybe the secret to fulfillment is to stop wondering what we're lacking; to stop seeking love and instead to start accepting ourselves and loving the people we encounter. ~ Kristine Gasbarre

If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate. ~ Alan Moore

There must surely be much more to be said than the mere recounting of an incident: about the loves and hates of my people; their desires; their poverty and affluence; their achievements and failures; their diligence and idleness; their cold indifference and enthusiasm; their sense of the comic; their full-throated laughter and their sense of the tragic with its attendant emotional sobs and ostentations signs of pity. ~ Es'kia Mphahlele

For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

The Commonwealth - humanity - is in deep shit, and we're the people with the shovels. ~ Marko Kloos

The first recorded use to date of OMG is from 1917, and reads in full "I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis - O.M.G. (Oh! My God!) - Shower it on the Admiralty!" The citation comes from a letter by one John Arbuthnot Fisher, who happens to have been the admiral in charge of the British navy (a position known as first sea lord), and was written to Winston Churchill, staunch defender of both the English people and their language. ~ Ammon Shea

If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another. ~ A.J. Darkholme

When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context. ~ Kumail Nanjiani

Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me. ~ Jon Anderson

How do people who live utterly alone survive? There are so many things that won't open. I've got a few dresses in New York, and I can somehow get them on, but I can't get them off. ~ Marian Seldes

We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, "We the people," this breed called Americans. ~ Ronald Reagan