Quotes About Human Gesture

#1. Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

Glen Duncan

#2. It was like hearing customs from an undiscoverd race: what men thought was unimaginable....She wondered if all human activity were like this, everything, every gesture, every comment colored faintly by gender. Each side continually astonished, confused by the other's misperceptions. p 133

Roxana Robinson

#3. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]

Nelson Mandela

#4. Enemy are your friends"... YOOU ARE FUCKING DRUNK... THIS CONCLUSION IS FUCKING WRONG.

Deyth Banger

#5. Putting forward your positive energy connects you back to basic human values which we all share. Good Deeds Day shows that no matter the size of the gesture, a smile that brightens someone else's day or volunteering in your community, we can all take active part in making a difference.

Shari Arison

#6. She hadn't realized that those quiet moments, the ones that seemed so unimportant, were the threads of her life holding everything together.

Penny Watson

#7. There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

Andrew Cuomo

#8. Business is about to pick up here!

Jim Ross

#9. Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

Hermann Hesse

#10. Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

Doris Humphrey

#11. It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should offer not what one has but what one is.

Paul Evdokimov

#12. I guess I'll have to change my plan I should have realized there'd be another man Why did I buy those blue pyjamas Before the big affair began? I guess I'll have to change my plan.

Howard Dietz

#13. He flipped his spiked tail straight into the air in what could only be interpreted as an obscene gesture.

Rexi duplicated it in human form. "Right back atcha.

Betsy Schow

#14. In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or made the least gesture, became hideous. No human emotion can wear an aspect so terrible as that of jubilation. He had the face of a fiend who has found the victim he thought he had lost.

Victor Hugo

#15. Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

John Lyly

#16. Light is supposed to be reasuring. You learn that when you're very young. It defeats the bad things creeping around in your room.
Every Parent knows the magic gesture chases the monesters away.

Mike A. Lancaster

#17. But, then, every gesture made by a human being is sacred and full of consequences, and that makes me think even more about what I am doing.

Paulo Coelho

#18. ... helping each other to have a true gaze on reality, on the circumstances we are living in, is the first gesture of friendship we can offer each other for living like human beings in the presence of the needs of the world.

Julian Carron

#19. Make today worth remembering.

Zig Ziglar

#20. She lent herself to immemorial human attitudes which we recognize by instinct as universal and true ... she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things.

Willa Cather

#21. Breathing in her clean, sweet scent was like unexpectedly finding almond cookies. So fucking sweet.

Cherise Sinclair

#22. I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most.

Cilla Black

#23. Every gesture, every word, and even the silence of those with whom she came in contact, implied, and often expressed, that she was banished, and as much alone as if she inhabited another sphere, or communicated with the common nature by other organs and senses than the rest of human kind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#24. Scripture sees hell as self-chosen ... Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves.

J.I. Packer

#25. But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.

Ahdaf Soueif

#26. We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.

John McCain

#27. Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.

Emile Galle

#28. Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

Henri Matisse