David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974 Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924) Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the colony, touching one here and there with his icy fingers.
I refuse to live as if I were trapped within the walls of a museum: looking but never touching, afraid to ruin the so-called perfection of the artifacts inside.
Ascham , in "The Schoolmaster", tells a touching story of his last visit to Lady Jane Grey .
" "I'm sure she knows," I said, reaching over and touching his hands rough, carpenter's hands that were gripping the cup as if it were the only thing he had to hang onto "but she needs to hear it, Bill.
I want to capture23 for her the belly laugh24 of a baby who is touching the soft fur of a dog for the first time.
For we are touching the body of Christ twenty-four hours…And I think that in our family we don't need bombs and guns, to destroy, to bring peace, just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home.
Tuck up your gown and go through them without touching anything, or you will die instantly.
When they felt he was touching the ground they drew up the cords and left him.
After sailing about for some time and touching at many ports we came at last to the island of Salahat, where sandal wood grows in great abundance.
nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs.
David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974 Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.
A Blind Man was accustomed to distinguish different animals by touching them with his hands.
This is the touching moment a giraffe bid a sad farewell to a dying worker who had spent his entire adult life cleaning the animal's enclosure at a Dutch zoo.
So it went down to the water and bathed itself therein, and then it soared upwards and swept between the trees without touching them, as if it had recovered its sight.
Now the maiden still lay sleeping, and she was quite sewn into her night-dress, and he cut a morsel from this also, and thrust it in with the rest, but he did all without touching her.
He caught her like the first, by simply touching her, and carried her away.
Then she perceived the finger which had become golden from touching the fire of heaven, and saw well that the child had sinned, and said for the third time 'have you not done it.
Then the poor idiot, as the cretin was often called, looked at Rudy with a most touching expression in his eyes, clasped his hands, and said, solemnly and devoutly, "Saperli wants to send a letter to Jesus Christ, to pray Him to let Saperli die, and not the master of the house here.
