Top 100 Quotes About Contact
#1. Sheep do best when they have personal contact with their shepherd. It was intended that the Church would continue after his departure to heaven. There are many roles in a functioning, normal Church.
Word Alive Press
#2. Caring is open-hearted, keeping us available to transmit love to a stranger through simple eye contact and without condition. This is not the opportunistic sizing-up of sexual cruising; instead, it's the felt recognition of the divinity and humanity in another individual.
Alexandra Katehakis
#3. The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.
Arthur Lydiard
#4. My attitude is that you very rarely come in contact with someone of Master Ren's level, so every opportunity I could get to learn from him I wanted to do that.
Lou Reed
#5. I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
Henry Villard
#6. There were about two years when I literally paid no rent anywhere in the world. Everyone's a contact, but there's no real human interaction. That's a very wearying thing.
Matthew Stewart
#7. The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
Booker T. Washington
#8. Even in the investigations into direct production of calcium peroxide in an alkali melt with highly compressed oxygen, it was found to be necessary to bring the high-pressure gas into contact with the suspension of lime in caustic alkali melt by agitation or some other means of mixing.
Friedrich Bergius
#9. Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.
Michael Crapo
#10. We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.
Konosuke Matsushita
#11. Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
Nicolas Chamfort
#12. Every moment of contact between us seems important - every glance, every touch, every word. I don't understand him, but I know him, and he knows me. It's this strange connection we share. No matter how often we fight, lie, make mistakes, I choose him and deep down, I think he chooses me, too.
Caroline George
#13. Words have not just the astonishing capacity to banish boredom and create wonders. They also enable contact with the lives of others and with story worlds, arousing endless curiosity about ourselves and the places we inhabit.
Maria Tatar
#14. We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.
David Sedaris
#15. All forms of contact are good: letters, parcels, e-mails - I've been trying to get a Webcam for my computer, but I'm such a Luddite.
Rose Byrne
#16. Books are people,' smiled Miss Marks. 'In every book worth reading, the author is there to meet you, to establish contact with you. He takes you into his confidence and reveals his thoughts to you.
D.E. Stevenson
#17. When you come in contact with the anointing of God, it not only affects your moment, it affects your tomorrow.
Creflo A. Dollar
#18. I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
Aaron Klug
#19. Anonymous, faceless homicides, he decides, lack the thrill of human contact.
David Mitchell
#20. The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.
Dalai Lama
#21. In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
Carlos Alvarez
#22. I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
Owen Benjamin
#23. The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
James G. Frazer
#24. Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.
Hu Jintao
#25. The value of friendship and just deep human contact grows out of giving.
Patch Adams
#27. I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
Samuel L. Jackson
#28. I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.
Geoffrey Boycott
#29. When you make contact with your Higher Self, you'll have the support of Nature, which will allow for the manifestation of all you desire
Deepak Chopra
#30. The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.
Charles Caleb Colton
#31. Sometimes you just make a contact, and it feels right, but you don't know why. But down the road, something will happen that will make it clear why that connection had to be made at the point it was made.
James Redfield
#32. There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities ties which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#33. Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them ... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
John Muir
#34. The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#35. They forget that the CIA is all about collecting information. Information for other people to act on. If you join the CIA expecting a life of laser guns, ju-jitsu and exotic STDs, bear in mind that your only contact with them may come through the pages of The Lancet and Popular Mechanics.
Jay Spencer Green
#36. You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own superior inner resources.
Flower A. Newhouse
#37. Aiden grabbed my arm, pulling me right against his chest. The unexpected contact fried my brain. If I was like every other pure-blood, I would have had you by now, without even thinking about the consequences for you. Every day is a struggle not to be like them.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#38. The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the attributes which common sense ascribes instinctively to reality. A chair may be a collection of whirling electrons.
G.H. Hardy
#39. I tentatively attempted to make contact with the muscles in my body. They told me to leave them the fuck alone.
Richelle Mead
#40. In its extreme form, this fear of losing one's orientation is the fear of psychosis. When persons actually are on the brink of psychosis, they often have an urgent need to seek out some contact with other human beings.
Rollo May
#41. You make a difference for every single person you come into contact with at work. Is that difference for the better or worse?
Alexander Kjerulf
#42. Leaders of political parties need to keep in contact with the people; that's what it's all about. If violence were to erupt, I am fairly confident that we could control our people. Whether or not the authorities can control theirs is another matter altogether.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#43. But Lord Arglay, at once in contact and detached, at once faithless and believing, beheld all these things in the light of that fastidious and ironical goodwill which, outside mystical experience, is the finest and noblest capacity man has developed in and against the universe.
Charles Williams
#44. There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#45. For optimal health and rejuvenation, we all need exercise, rest, time to feel deeply into ourselves, and meaningful and emotionally expressive human contact.
Alan Fogel
#46. I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.
Dean Norris
#47. I know that lack of contact creates more lack of contact, and contact creates more contact, or at least an ability to talk to with each other.
Gloria Steinem
#48. The best conversationalists don't just engage on the literal, surface level of conversation. They listen instead to tonality, pay attention to eye contact, note shifts in body language.
Charlie Houpert
#49. Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#50. I have family in Italy that my mother keeps in contact with, but I don't because I don't speak Italian.
Pauly D
#51. He didn't immediately answer. His focus, however, remained glued to her cleavage. Ground control, we have contact.
Jodi Redford
#52. Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists.
Emily Robison
#53. Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
Jodi Picoult
#54. Marketing is every bit of contact your company has with anyone in the outside world. Every bit of contact. That means a lot of marketing opportunities. It does not mean investing a lot of money.
Jay Conrad Levinson
#55. You're so fucking hot, you know that?" Kelly whispered.
"I bet you tell that to all your oldest friends as you're jacking them off."
Kelly snickered and arched his back, seeking contact. "No, just you.
Abigail Roux
#56. But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation.
Maria Montessori
#57. Being down is not abnormal; it's a virus that we all must contact at different times. Who you look up to recovery is what separates us! This phase has a terminal date.......
Bayode Ojo
#58. Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
Nicolas Chamfort
#59. Not aging is not the same as living, and without human contact, his soul dried up.
Mitch Albom
#60. The more you look into pigs the more you realize quite how everywhere they are. People come in contact with parts of pigs probably between 20 and 50 times a day. And that's before you even eat your dinner. And yet we just have a long string of negative words about them.
Herbert
#61. Not what I have, but what I have not, is the first point of contact, between my soul and God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#62. He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears ...
Thomas Hardy
#63. This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
Rajneesh
#64. Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma.
Patrick White
#65. Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
Germaine Greer
#66. Never make eye contact with a stranger when you're having a churro.
Rucy Ban
#67. If they do have her are they going to kill her? Don't lie to me."
I study the cracks in the asphalt for a while before making eye contact. "If they do have her, we need to find her as soon as possible.
D.R. Graham
#68. Not anxious to come in contact with their fangs, I sat still; but, imagining they would scarcely understand tacit insults, I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces at the trio, and some turn of my physiognomy so irritated madam, that she suddenly broke into a fury and leapt on my knees.
Emily Bronte
#69. We may be losing the ability to understand animals who are not pets or horses. We have less contact with them. We don't (most of us) tend to know even cows and pigs, let alone bears or wolverines or red tailed hawks.
Marge Piercy
#70. So the first time I ever came into contact with O'Toole was at one of these very gatherings. I remember it well because I'd just punched Harold Pinter down a flight of stairs. Oh yes, I'm afraid so. No long dramatic pauses this time, Harold; he got one right on the side of the jaw. Wham!
Brian Blessed
#71. When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.
Elmer Bernstein
#72. You can make contact with people all day but it only seems fulfilling when it's with someone you truly enjoy.
Andersen Prunty
#73. There were no colonies on Earth. It was all a scam the Martians were using to con the rest of the universe. There had been no first contact. Her knees quivered, and all her muscles tensed. She was first contact.
Patricia Eimer
#74. I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.
Justin Morneau
#75. Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
Nicolas Chamfort
#76. What I do requires fantastic concentration ... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.
Truman Capote
#77. What's nice about Twitter is that you've got that point of contact with your fans that artists have never had before. I think it's good for musicians. Just as long as you don't start tweeting things about your girlfriends or boyfriends - there's got to be a line.
Tom Odell
#78. We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.
Dion Fortune
#79. The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement.
Catherine Asaro
#80. It might if you were male, hanging upside down naked and got nervous, then whizzed all over yourself. Gravity is not your friend at that point. (Josie)
Eww. Save those tidbits for when you're in the men's room ... updating your contact information. (Terri)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#81. Flirting all starts with eye contact! You can tell a girl is into you if she's across the room and still making eye contact with you.
Chandler Parsons
#82. Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society", inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people - "base.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#83. if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth.
Beryl Markham
#84. He could not endure a prolonged contact with another body. It smacked of danger. It made him frantic. He must be away, free, on his own legs, touching no living thing.
Jack London
#85. The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image ... indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator.
Guy Kawasaki
#86. Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can.
John Sexton
#87. When an introvert cares about someone, she also wants contact, not so much to keep up with the events of the other person's life, but to keep up with what's inside: the evolution of ideas, values, thoughts, and feelings.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#88. We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality, rather than escaping from it. The flight from reality is a mark of Eastern and classical mysticism, not of Christianity.
Hans Rookmaaker
#89. No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt.
Tim Harford
#90. The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.
George Edward Woodberry
#91. It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much.
Sarah Dessen
#92. Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.
Winston Churchill
#93. Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.
Richard Louv
#94. It was always the same now, the ghost always coming between her and her life in the world, so much more important, since that lost being was still her only companion, and their now-obsolete relationship the one true human contact she would ever have.
Anna Kavan
#95. religious rituals cast an aura of sacrality on bread by putting it in liminal contact with the celestial sphere. The meshing of the sacred with the profane endowed bread with a plethora of superimposed, ambivalent, and overcharged meanings, which the regime fully exploited.
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
#96. We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It's also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.
Amartya Sen
#97. When the customer makes contact, he does not want a quote. He wants a commitment.
Ron Kaufman
#98. Civilisation is the art of living in contact with other persons with the minimum of discomfort.
Nanamoli Thera
#99. The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#100. Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.
Bill Vaughan
