Top 100 Untouched Quotes
#1. And to think, there are still places in the world where man has not been, where he has left no footprints, where the mysteries stand secure, untouched by human eyes. I want to go to these places, the quiet, timeless, ageless places, and sit, letting silence and solitude be my teachers.
Evan Tanner
#2. I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.
Jim Crace
#3. A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
Samuel Johnson
#5. I still read a lot about teenage angst! Of course, any kind of mourning CAN become pathological and then it 'has to stop', but to move through life untouched by the loss of hopes, beliefs and aspirations once cherished is also questionable.
George Pattison
#6. Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies.
Jennifer Worth
#7. A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia.
Michael J. Sandel
#8. The gamelan created in the listener a brain wave beyond all alphas and betas and thetas, a brain wave that paralyzed the normal channels of thought and forced new ones to grow outside them, in the untouched regions of the mind, like parallel blood vessels that form to accommodate a damaged heart.
Janet Fitch
#9. That's right, Potter," Noah nodded, seeing James' untouched plate. "The less you eat, the less you'll have to throw up when you're in the air. Of course, some of us see a little well-aimed sick as a great defensive technique. You've had your f irst broom lesson with Professor Ridcully, right?
G. Norman Lippert
#10. In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too
Saul Bellow
#11. There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.
Albert Einstein
#12. Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
Bruno Latour
#13. In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.
Jonathan Turley
#14. It is as though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin screaming that the other is guilty of arson or bigamy. The point that is really at issue remains untouched. Libel settles nothing ...
George Orwell
#15. I think they're bogus, honestly. How utter garbage like Crash and Million Dollar Baby can win best picture, where true works of art such as Garden State go untouched is beyond me. It just proves how close-minded America really is, and I refuse to take part in it.
Zach Braff
#16. It targets explicit memories, like your name, where you grew up, your first teacher's name, and leaves implicit memories- like how to speak or tie your shoes or ride a bicycle- untouched.
Veronica Roth
#17. Friendship is perfect when virtuous men love the good in one another; for virtue gives more delight than beauty, and is untouched by time.
Mary Renault
#18. O Lord, make my soul a sanctuary, a fortress within. That no one and nothing can disturb. A place of calm, silence, and serenity, untouched by the outside world. The soul that Allah (swt) calls al-nafs al mutmaina (the reassured soul). (Qur'an 89:27) The soul that Allah (swt) calls back saying:
Yasmin Mogahed
#19. More than anything, I wanted to help her write new words, on perfectly crisp, untouched paper, and to come up with a flawless title, for the perfect story.
Rachel Brookes
#20. We each keep an untouched life beneath the one we've been given.
Carrie Fountain
#21. If revenge is a dish best served cold, then knowledge is a dish best left untouched.
Jill Archer
#22. Ah, sweetheart, I don't fuck around with virgins." His head dipped, teeth closing around her ear and tugging. "But I'll get down on my knees and eat that untouched pussy like a motherfucker.
Tessa Bailey
#23. Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.
John Gunther
#24. The Civil War ravaged the Southern states, while leaving the North untouched.
Eustace Mullins
#25. To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.
Jacob Epstein
#26. Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
Sharon M. Draper
#27. While the mind remains so fixed in its own personal affairs, be they little or large, it has no chance to open up its higher levels. When attention and emotion are kept so confined, the chance they offer of this higher use is missed. The peace, truth, and goodness which could be had are untouched.
Paul Brunton
#28. Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.
Etgar Keret
#29. We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.
Klaus Schwab
#30. With mouths agape, they stared in awe at the floor of fire and wall of flame. Atop a horse of golden flames that whipped and licked the leather reins, untouched by the fire that twisted and burned, sat Heimdallr, guardian of the Bilrost.
Angela B. Chrysler
#31. All tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.
Stevie Smith
#32. He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched.
Rumer Godden
#33. It wasn't until after the body was scarred by a brush with danger that it learned fear. Conner thought of all the untouched places on his soul yet to teach him something. All the unblemished parts of him waiting for that razor of truth.
Hugh Howey
#34. And then I noticed the small cake that still sat uneaten next to him. And another in front of his mother. That was the last straw. I fully disliked them. How dare they leave perfectly good cake untouched?
Tarun Shanker
#35. You should live in the world but remain untouched by it. You should remain in the world, but the world should not remain in you.
Osho
#36. Never leave a page unturned if you find a book and never leave a book untouched if you find a library.
K. Hari Kumar
#37. Aye: though we hunted high and low,
And hunted everywhere,
Of the three men's fate we found no trace
Of any kind in any place,
But a door ajar, and an untouched meal,
And an overtoppled chair.
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
#38. Vicky always did have that kind of mind: since there was basically no activity going on inside her head, conversations went in there and came back out virtually untouched.
Tana French
#39. The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.
Walter Brueggemann
#40. A body has a way of wanting to be touched so badly that the touch itself will hurt, but so will remaining untouched. Nothing helps.
Leah Raeder
#41. Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man.
Annie Besant
#42. Be true to Love.
Do not betray Her.
Then, on the day
that the forest of the mind
bursts into flames,
you will not run.
You will remain silent and still;
for this is when Love bears
Her sweetest fruit:
untouched Presence.
Mooji
#43. It was a thing intangible, yet clearly felt - the sense that time was moving round him, past him, leaving him untouched.
Susanna Kearsley
#45. Nature is the first tutor. No one remains untouched or unschooled by the earth, seasons, and heavens.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#46. There seems to be something pure in pulling from a place in time that's "innocent" and untouched by outward opinion. I wanted this album to have threads of my past to enrich the topics I wanted to address about aging.
Brooke Waggoner
#47. All that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain ... a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centered, battling egos that are born and die in time.
Joseph Campbell
#48. The sound of natural things was wonderful to us. In the middle of all the suffering, it seemed pure, untouched.
Diet Eman
#49. I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'
Hugo Wolf
#50. This new resolve gave her a sort of light-headed self-confidence: when she left the dinner-table she felt so easy and careless that she was surprised to see that the glass of champagne beside her plate was untouched. She felt as if all its sparkles were whirling through her.
Edith Wharton
#51. I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.
Toni Collette
#52. We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.
Vance Havner
#53. I am not master of words to tell you, Jack, the value of an exceedingly remote island to a naturalist, an uninhabited fertile volcanic island covered with a luxuriant vegetation, with no vile rats, dogs, cats, goats, swine, introduced by fools to destroy an Eden, an island untouched ...
Patrick O'Brian
#54. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain.
Ayn Rand
#55. A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.
Paul Haggis
#56. Be an empty page, untouched by words.
Rumi
#57. The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. Nobody should be alone," Sissix said. "Being alone and untouched...there's no punishment worse than that. And she's done nothing wrong. She's just different.
Becky Chambers
#59. Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn.
[Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
Samuel Johnson
#60. There are things better left untouched by words ...
Anna Kamienska
#61. Else! Jett grimaced and refilled their glasses. He swigged down the golden liquid in one gulp while Kenny stared at his, leaving it untouched
J.C. Reed
#62. When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.
Patch Adams
#63. Around 5:30 P.M., Oprah and I wrapped and I went over to SNL, but not before stealing an untouched Edible Arrangements bouquet from Oprah's dressing room to serve at the birthday party the next day.
Tina Fey
#64. Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched ...
J.K. Rowling
#65. There was something peaceful about an untouched fall of snow. Like being in another world, where nothing can go wrong. Because nothing can find you.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#66. I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.
Edvard Grieg
#67. Sadie was like that, one of those people untouched by trend or fashion, comfortable building her own world out of what she liked, from tunes and styles and reads that could be so ancient they were cobwebbed, up through to things so new they barley existed yet.
Michael Grant
#68. Still, the farther hills remained as untouched as the sea; high, remote, arid, dark and sterile, poisoned with the sun.
Patrick O'Brian
#69. On the Old Course at St. Andrews: This is the origin of the game, golf in its purest form, and it's still played that way on a course seemingly untouched by time. Every time I play here, it reminds me that this is still a game.
Arnold Palmer
#70. They were untouched by modern education, but their government was striving with might and main to procure this inestimable benefit for them; anticlericalism and American bustle would soon free them from belief in miracles and holy likenesses.
Robertson Davies
#71. As some strings, untouched,
sound when no one is speaking.
So it was when love slipped inside us.
Jane Hirshfield
#72. The luminous light that burns on the Arizona desert, out of long miles of untouched sage and sand. . . . Yes, that's where I want to be, on an observation car traveling swiftly into the Southwest. Losing myself in a shimmer of fine dust.
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
#73. Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ...
Donna Leon
#74. All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's.
Simon Beckett
#75. Memory is the most potent truth.
Show me history untouched by memories
and you show me lies.
Carlos Eire
#76. There was a space inside me, cupped and still. It was small as cupped hands; it was large as the sky. It was untouched and it was touch itself. It was empty and it was full. I held love there, like a treasure. I held my own name.
Erin Bow
#77. I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anything civilized. There's a part of me that has never heard of a telephone.
James Dickey
#78. Reading is nurturing of the mind ... a cleansing of the soul. It opens our eyes to unseen beauty, and our hearts to the untouched pieces of ourselves that we've hidden away from the world.
S.L. Jennings
#79. Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.
Pat Conroy
#80. She wore her ferocity like armor, and it was purely asexual armor. Liraz was untouchable and untouched.
Laini Taylor
#81. That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to every single corner of the earth and our Homo sapiens population to more than 6 billion - until no place is untouched by despoliation.
Kirkpatrick Sale
#82. The thought of Kate having that sort of experience, of another man touching her, created a vague knot in his chest. He'd far rather imagine her as virginal and untouched, waiting for him to be her Prince Charming. Damn, he had it bad.
Aden Lowe
#83. Even through the haze of summer you can see the cleared pockets of land that were once forest, now logged into oblivion. They look like a disease, but to the north and west, the untouched hills are a calm reminder.
Victoria Aveyard
#84. Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn.
Scott Anderson
#85. Purusha is the; great attraction of the universe; though untouched by and unconnected with the universe, yet it attracts the whole; universe.
Swami Vivekananda
#86. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time. The
Eckhart Tolle
#87. All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark
Richard Rorty
#88. Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.
Michael Thomas Ford
#89. The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green,blissful area of our Self
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#90. To remember is to rewrite. To photograph is to replace. The only reliable memories, I suppose, are the ones that have been forgotten. They are the dark rooms of the mind. Unopened, untouched, and uncorrupted.
Abby Geni
#91. Even as the lion, not trembling at noises; even as the wind, not caught in a net; even as the lotus-leaf, untouched by the water - so do thou wander alone like the rhinoceros!
Swami Vivekananda
#92. Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest.
Anderson Cooper
#93. Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.
Gary Zukav
#94. Selfish little flower dancing beneath flames do you dare drift in this wind alongside me? Take my hand and let us see skies untouched by night. You are not alone. Never have, and never will be. Death is only the beginning, but our breath shall reign forever.
H.S. Crow
#95. People could push and pull at you, and poke you, and probe as deep as they could go. They could even tear you apart, bit by bit. But at the heart and root and soul of you, something would remain untouched.
Lauren Oliver
#96. I've been poked and prodded in places I'd always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday.
Libba Bray
#97. The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.
Sylvia Plath
#98. I'm mesmerized, lost, and found again. By bright blue eyes, little lips, and a soft cry. By dark hair and perfect ears. By his untouched innocence, unconditional trust, and love: all three given without asking the first time I look into his eyes
K. Bromberg
#99. The Gnani Purush [The enlightened one] always remains untouched in his worldly interactions. Everything will get resolved for us if we go to Him. He shows us what is 'correct' and what is 'incorrect'.
Dada Bhagwan
#100. Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.
Henri Nouwen
