Tactilely Defensive Adults Quotes & Sayings

For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it still follow the Christian ideal. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dawson shoved away from his desk, stepped — J.D. Robb

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. — Gregory Bateson

Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind's eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it - and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life; and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended - a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence. — Charlotte Bronte

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment. — Christy Turlington

I close my eyes, hoping to slip into the same dream again, but then that never happens, does it? — L.A. Meyer

They weren't happy. The otters knew they weren't living in a real river. It wasn't the life that they were meant to live, or even wanted to live, but there was nothing they could do to change it. — Nicholas Sparks

Change isn't always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake. — Bob Barker

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself. — Dacia Maraini

Tangled with love in the moonlight she welcomed the anarchy of her lover. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open. — Benjamin Bratt

The best environment for man is the environment of liberty — Vaclav Klaus

The crash of Green Hornet had left Louie and Phil in the most desperate physical extremity, without food, water, or shelter. But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. — Laura Hillenbrand

When you think about all the infinitely many galaxies and combinations of DNA, and against all those odds you meet this person - it's a miracle...'
'Right,' I said. I couldn't imagine viewing Bill's presence on Earth as any kind of a miracle, but wasn't that itself the miracle - that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where everyone was matched up by how quantifiably lovable they are? — Elif Batuman