Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.[Mother Teresa] Quote:We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.[Mother Teresa] Quote:No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.[Aristotle] Quote:Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.[Helen Keller] Quote:If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been.[Jack Handey] Quote:There is no great genius without some touch of madness. [Seneca] Quote:Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. [Bette Davis] Quote: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. [Carl Schurz] Quote:The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. [Alfred North Whitehead] Definitions of: touchDefinition: To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.Definition: To perceive by the sense of feeling. Definition: To come to; to reach; to attain to. Definition: To try; to prove, as with a touchstone. Definition: To relate to; to concern; to affect. Definition: To handle, speak of, or deal with; to treat of. Definition: To meddle or interfere with; as, I have not touched the books. Definition: To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften; especially, to cause feelings of pity, compassion, sympathy, or gratitude in. Definition: To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. Definition: To infect; to affect slightly. Definition: To make an impression on; to have effect upon. Definition: To strike; to manipulate; to play on; as, to touch an instrument of music. Definition: To perform, as a tune; to play. Definition: To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly. Definition: To harm, afflict, or distress. Definition: To affect with insanity, especially in a slight degree; to make partially insane; -- rarely used except in the past participle. Definition: To be tangent to. See Tangent, a. Definition: To lay a hand upon for curing disease. Definition: To compare with; to be equal to; -- usually with a negative; as, he held that for good cheer nothing could touch an open fire. Definition: To induce to give or lend; to borrow from; as, to touch one for a loan; hence, to steal from. Definition: The act of touching, or the state of being touched; contact. Definition: The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile. Definition: Act or power of exciting emotion. Definition: An emotion or affection. Definition: Personal reference or application. Definition: A stroke; as, a touch of raillery; a satiric touch; hence, animadversion; censure; reproof. Definition: A single stroke on a drawing or a picture. Definition: Feature; lineament; trait. Definition: The act of the hand on a musical instrument; bence, in the plural, musical notes. Definition: A small quantity intermixed; a little; a dash. Definition: A hint; a suggestion; slight notice. Definition: A slight and brief essay. Definition: A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone. Definition: Hence, examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality. Definition: The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers; as, a heavy touch, or a light touch; also, the manner of touching, striking, or pressing the keys of a piano; as, a legato touch; a staccato touch. Definition: The broadest part of a plank worked top and but (see Top and but, under Top, n.), or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters. Definition: That part of the field which is beyond the line of flags on either side. Definition: A boys' game; tag. Definition: A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, that is, less than 5,040. Definition: An act of borrowing or stealing. Definition: Tallow; -- a plumber's term. |
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