Top 91 Quotes About Touchstone
#1. Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.
Caroline Dries
#2. A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.
Robert A. Heinlein
#3. Nothing is more important to our shared future than the well-being of children. For children are at our core - not only as vulnerable beings in need of love and care but as a moral touchstone amidst the complexity and contentiousness of modern life ...
Hillary Clinton
#4. By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.
Dwight Macdonald
#5. What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.
Ted Cruz
#6. Loss in all of its manifestations is the touchstone of depression - in the progress of the disease and, most likely, in its origin.
William Styron
#7. One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one's deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.
Paul Gallico
#8. What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.
James Russell Lowell
#9. A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
Marjorie Holmes
#10. The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
Moliere
#11. Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth.
James Conlon
#12. Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.
Eric McCormack
#13. The characteristic of Pains and Pleasures is that they are unmistakably real, and therefore, as far as they go, give the man who feels them a touchstone of reality.
C.S. Lewis
#15. The process of recovering from addictiveness happens at a deeper level of consciousness and through feeling our pain without using old addictive fixes. There is no escaping that getting in touch with our original pain is the touchstone to mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Christopher Dines
#16. Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.
Tom Kenny
#17. Pain is the touchstone of all growth
Bill W.
#18. Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.
Matthew Arnold
#19. The American people have got a touchstone: Which party voted for the tools necessary to protect America and which party didn't? And that's what I'm trying to get people to focus on.
George W. Bush
#20. Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced ... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist
Francois Mauriac
#21. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality - for this touchstone can be only oneself.
James Baldwin
#22. Perhaps somewhere in the universe there was a touchstone that she had never found, perhaps there was a clue that would make everything simple and clear
if only she knew where to look ...
Anna Kavan
#23. The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
Felix Frankfurter
#24. He [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.
Philip Larkin
#25. Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Joseph Joubert
#26. A TV touchstone for me is 'The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.' That series was whimsical and smart and had the mix of comedy and drama that I now trade in - but with a dash of magical realism. I wanted to be Molly Dodd, but more than that, I wanted to be Jay Tarses, who created the show.
Jenji Kohan
#27. Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
#28. We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
Jeff Bezos
#29. The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
George Meredith
#30. In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul.
Kristin Armstrong
#32. The touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.
Hannah Arendt
#33. Alayna I adored how he said my name, how it always felt like he was saying so much more with only those three syllables. Like a prayer, like a touchstone. It made me feel beautiful.
Laurelin Paige
#34. I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
Malcolm Gladwell
#35. The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.
Saib Tabrizi
#36. Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.
Michel De Montaigne
#37. My own personality, which was molded by the furnace of time and circumstances ... strengthened by the touchstone of varied experiences, has changed a bit due to the benevolence and graciousness of people around me but I have never felt trapped in the nets of influence.
Balroop Singh
#38. The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immunity, but for reasons both historical and of experimental convenience, antibody is likely to remain the touchstone of immunological theory.
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
#39. What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
#41. My touchstone for following a line of wisdom is; 'living the philosophy should bring freedom to the individual, and love, wisdom and compassion to society, to our relationships'.
Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney
#42. The touchstone for family life is still the legendary 'and so they were married and lived happily ever after.' It is no wonder that any family falls short of this ideal.
Salvador Minuchin
#43. However we think about these [long-term] goals, we ought to think about them a lot. They ought to be our touchstone, if only to keep us from being sucked into the quicksand of daily life.
Alfie Kohn
#44. When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
#45. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
Brian Cox
#46. One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else.
Monica Crowley
#47. California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.
Victor Davis Hanson
#48. In creating a new character, it's sometimes difficult to find a touchstone, a North Star that will always point you in the direction that character will travel.
Deanna Raybourn
#49. The touchstone of the Holy Spirit's work in us is the answer to our Lord's question: "Who do men say that the Son of Man is?" Our Lord makes human destiny depend on that one thing, Who men say He is, because the revelation of Who Jesus is is only given by the Holy Spirit.
Oswald Chambers
#50. Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
William Hazlitt
#51. I feel like bands should be growing, living, functioning entities and to crystallize a band into a single album, and for that to be a touchstone - I understand it from a fan's perspective but I also feel like it's a little bit misleading in terms of the way bands actually function.
Steve Albini
#52. The image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art
plastic, musical, poetic, balletic
serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#53. I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.
Bruce McCulloch
#54. Anytime you "know" something to be true, even when outward circumstances or facts seem to be telling you otherwise, you have experienced your intuition. Remember that feeling. It will be your touchstone in the future.
Patricia Troyer
#55. The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.
Corin Tucker
#56. Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone
Edith Wharton
#57. Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet.
Tyler Perry
#58. A deepening sense of one's sinfulness remains a touchstone of the genuine Christian life.
J.I. Packer
#59. Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.
Benjamin Graham
#60. Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason.
Francis De Sales
#61. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#62. To make belief the touchstone of the kingdom's operation is simply to turn faith into just one more cold work. Of course we must believe; but only because there is nothing left for us to do but believe.
Robert Farrar Capon
#63. Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
Alec-Tweedie
#64. A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Denis Diderot
#65. The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
Henri Matisse
#66. I lay curled in a fetal position one night, listening to my wife's voice. In the evenings, she just talked, speaking light into my darkness by reading verses to me. I needed a touchstone and she knew it, so she kept gently pointing toward Christ. She set aside her fears to speak into my own.
Ben Palpant
#67. Do certain events in our lives leave a permanent mark, freezing a piece of us in time, and that becomes a touchstone that we measure the rest of our lives against?
Mary E. Pearson
#68. Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.
Robert Hughes
#69. Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.
Peter Drucker
#70. In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#71. Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.
Rodney King
#72. It [World of Warcraft] is a touchstone. It has established standards, it's established how you play an MMO. Every MMO that comes out, I play and look at it. And if they break any of the WoW rules, in my book that's pretty dumb.
Greg Zeschuk
#73. In Shakespeare's play As You Like It, Touchstone says to Audrey in the Forest of Arden "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." (Act V, Scene I).
Karolina Achirri
#74. The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.
Moliere
#75. For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
Walter Jon Williams
#76. In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
Alain De Botton
#77. It was remarked yesterday that a numerous representation was necessary to obtain the confidence of the people. This is not generally true. The confidence of the people will easily be gained by a good administration. This is the true touchstone.
Alexander Hamilton
#78. I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve.
Jim Barksdale
#79. Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.
Toni Morrison
#80. Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.
John F. Kennedy
#81. Love is the conversation between possible, searing disappointment and a profoundly imagined sense of arrival and fulfillment; how we shape that conversation is the touchstone of our ability to love in the real inhabited world.
David Whyte
#82. Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and the judgment that vichyssoise is cold expresses the fact that vichyssoise is cold.
David Berlinski
#83. The second touchstone for America I think unquestionably was pushing to conclusion the program we had with the Russians to control the Soviet nuclear arsenal. I tend to think that more than anything else, that will come back to haunt us.
Michael Scheuer
#84. For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.
Richard Greenberg
#85. In the 21st century men's tits have not just rivalled but replaced women's as the touchstone of 'sexy' in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.
Mark Simpson
#86. My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
Ted Cruz
#87. The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods.
Emile Durkheim
#88. A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
Bill Owens
#89. Humor is the touchstone of the truly mythological as distinct from the more literal-minded and sentimental theological mood.
Joseph Campbell
#90. Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.
Oswald Chambers
#91. I used to think like that at school," Sabriel answered. "Dreaming about the Old Kingdom. Proper Charter Magic. Dead to bind. Princes to be
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Garth Nix
