Quotes About Simple Gestures

#1. She loved their funny stiff dancing, listening to their incomprehensible and guttural tongue, and watching their simple gestures, natural behavior and childlike eagerness for life.

Erik Larson

#2. Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.

Donna Fargo

#3. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace ... and care properly for this planet we all share.

Bo Lozoff

#4. Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go.

Paulo Coelho

#5. When preparing a role, I work first on the body language and physical aspects of the performance; the psychological dimension comes naturally once I'm in character.

Pierre Niney

#6. Daniel, I'd trade a thousand grand gestures for that simple 'I love you' from your lips. You make me the happiest woman in the world.

Nadia Lee

#7. We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need, because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences.

Miya Yamanouchi

#8. This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.

John Scarlett

#9. I am only alive when I perceive a challenge.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Al Smith

#11. It's hard to get rid of vampires. You have to drag them into the light.

-Cynthia D. Grant, Uncle Vampire

Cynthia D. Grant

#12. What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.

Chris Abani

#13. I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

Thomas Perez

#14. That's the thing about saying "sorry" or "excuse me" in this city. No one ever does. Or when we do apologize, we don't actually say it clearly. We just whisper the outline of excuse me or form the word sorry with our mouth, as if we expect people to lip-read.

Susane Colasanti

#15. Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to be clear and instantly understood, and ought to be simply-stated with economy!

Alex Toth

#16. Could it be as simple as that? Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?

Jodi Picoult

#17. EVERY MORNING, I wake up feeling older by so much more than a mere twenty-four hours. I open my eyes and everything seems blurry, as if I am encased

Laurel Saville

#18. Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures.

Ayah Bdeir

#19. It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?

J.K. Rowling

#20. Everyone knows Bob Beckel views, radical left wing, socialist. He says he's a Democrat. But what may surprise you is that he actually has a conservative brother.

Sean Hannity

#21. He
was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all,
he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart,
with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without
judgement, without an opinion.

Hermann Hesse

#22. Her eyes were glistening, but for some reason he couldn't reach out and touch her. It was like some gestures were so simple they were beyond him.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#23. What ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play.

David Graeber

#24. I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

Louis Agassiz

#25. We created the 'Like' feature in FriendFeed because I realized that people wanted an easy way to let others know that they saw what their friends posted and appreciated it. Putting in those simple little gestures is very powerful.

Paul Buchheit

#26. Simple, common gestures can also unconsciously influence our thoughts and feelings.

Daniel Kahneman

#27. I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

Walter Huston