Quotes by Gestures I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed. George Bernard Shaw gesturesspontaneousworld I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love. Graham Greene without-lovegesturescommitted What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures. Gustave Flaubert serious-persongesturessticks We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind. H. P. Blavatsky gesturesmindfeelings But in love each moment is magnified, and every gesture, word and syllable is examined like a speech by the President. Hanif Kureishi gesturesspeechpresident Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. gesturesmatterremember The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral. Harold Rosenberg gesturesmoralpolitical For a guy who is always banging on about the masculine virtues, Nixon had this remarkable proclivity for very dainty gestures. Harry Shearer gesturesvirtueguy It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying. Hayao Miyazaki gesturesnumberspeople Knowledge is the reward of action. For it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living through, to the very limit, a particular role, one comes to realize the truth inherent in the role. Suffering its consequences, one fathoms and exhausts its contents. Heinrich Zimmer gesturesrolessuffering To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable. Henry Miller gesturespastworld Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage. Henry Wriston gesturescouragemen The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. Henry Rollins gesturesparentyears You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can. Henry David Thoreau gesturesinterestlooks Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture. Hermann Hesse gesturesmoralityimportant A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken Ian Mcewan gesturesstoriesmade Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith. Indro Montanelli gesturespoliticianenough Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion. Honore de Balzac gesturespassiondrama All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture. Isadora Duncan gestures I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason. Isabel Allende gesturesrealizingmen«12345678910»
