Top Gestures Quotes Collection

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Image of Jared Padalecki
Don't underestimate your own strength. To persevere. To make it through the most difficult of times. And, JUST as importantly, don't underestimate your ability to help someone ELSE during THEIR most difficult times. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word, or gesture, to help someone make it through their day.
- Jared Padalecki
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Image of Christian Morgenstern
My method is to find a word with a gesture.
- Christian Morgenstern
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Image of William Rehnquist
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.
- William Rehnquist
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Image of Lee J. Cobb
If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it.
- Lee J. Cobb
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Image of Indro Montanelli
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
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Image of Luigi Ghirri
The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.
- Luigi Ghirri
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Image of Shahzia Sikander
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.
- Shahzia Sikander
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Image of Carolyn Heilbrun
Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.
- Carolyn Heilbrun
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Image of Susan Choi
The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.
- Susan Choi
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Image of Nico Muhly
In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.
- Nico Muhly
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Image of Terry Tempest Williams
The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.
- Terry Tempest Williams
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Image of Fernando Pessoa
Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
- Fernando Pessoa
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Image of Garth Stein
Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.
- Garth Stein
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Image of Bernhard Schlink
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.
- Bernhard Schlink
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Image of John Updike
But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
- John Updike
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Image of Isadora Duncan
All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.
- Isadora Duncan
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Image of Graham Greene
I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
- Graham Greene
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Image of Eric Liu
The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.
- Eric Liu
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Image of Laura Lippman
how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?
- Laura Lippman
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Image of W. Somerset Maugham
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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