Contact Quotes

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche

After, Religious, Coming

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill

Great, Seem, Land

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Carl Jung

Two, Both, Reaction

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Religion, Reality, Point

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Life, Universe, Tried

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Fear, Away, Learn

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie

Four, Ways, Contacts

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin

Human, Precious, Rare

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.
Cat Stevens

Successful, Islam, Person

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
Paulo Coelho

Life, Reality, Lost

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
Rush Limbaugh

Thoughts, Cannot, Old

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley

Time, Words, Universe

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
Orison Swett Marden

Life, Yourself, Character

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
LeBron James

Love, Family, Important

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.
Martha Beck

Feeling, Human, Words

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Colin Powell

Enemy, Battle, Plan

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.
David Brin

History, Made, Often

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Marc Chagall

Love, Around, Interests

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter

Beauty, Truth, Eye

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Washington Irving

Humble, Real, Others

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Life, Sometimes, Universe

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
Philip Zimbardo

Time, Alone, Technology

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
John Irving

Age, Old, Write

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mind, Minds, Leave

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.
Wilson Mizner

Leave, Fortune, Lawyers

Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
Doug Coupland

Making, While, Eye

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Victoria Woodhull

Dreams, Great, Society

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.
James Caan

Beauty, Deep, Brain

It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Jackson Pollock

Give, Easy, Lose

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe

Bad, Light, Reason

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