"Contact" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Contact"

"To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves."

--- A. H. Almaas

#Who We Are #Awareness #Truth

"Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile."

--- A. J. McLean

#People #Thinking #Contact

"An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?"

--- A.M. Jenkins

#Contact #Messengers #Despair

"With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you're braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster."

--- Aaron Gwin

#Bigger #Contact #Traction

"I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years."

--- Aaron Klug

#Contact #Shed #Mind

"Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right on their side, must not take that right by force; the evil would continue. Hearts must be changed. The rich must wish to give! Life in man should be like a flame, warming all with whom it comes into contact. The spiritually awakened are like to bright torches in the sight of God, they give light and comfort to their fellows."

--- Abdu'l-Bahá

#Fighting #Sight #Contact

"An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object. That's why I like to work with the photogram, because the contact with what is represented is actual. It's as if the border between the world and the print is osmotic."

--- Adam Fuss

#Contact #Visuals #World

"I've had contact with Arsenal and Chelsea, but it's a bit of a mess."

--- Adel Taarabt

#Contact #Mess #Bits

"The indigenous peoples of the great tourist spots seem to lose their souls. All cultural, religious, and political efforts and ideals are crippled since the culture is engaged only in luring ever more tourists. It is not the contact with an essentially foreign population that corrupts the inhabitants of the great foreign resorts. It is the contact with great masses of people who are seeking fir the moment only well-being and not salvation that weakens and devalues the indigenous population."

--- Adolph Guggenbuhl-Craig

#Ideals #Salvation #Soul

"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought."

--- Agnes Repplier

#Contact #Elation #Conversation

"Some Pakistanis fought for the Taliban. Pakistani extremist groups provided infrastructural support to Al Qaeda. There was a coming and going of Al Qaeda militants and leaders between Afghanistan and Pakistan for several years. All that has really happened is that Al Qaeda has escaped from Afghanistan come into Pakistan, got in touch with their contacts and friends in these extremist groups, which then provided them with safe houses, cars, and not just in the border areas but also in the cities. Rooting out Al Qaeda in Pakistan now is where the main battle is being fought."

--- Ahmed Rashid

#Afghanistan #Taliban #Contact

"We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind's belief that we can better ourselves. The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions."

--- Ai Weiwei

#War #Contact #Communicate

"In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work."

--- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Contact #Done #Loses

"At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us."

--- Aimee Mullins

#Replacements #Contact #Generations

"A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts."

--- Al Goldstein

#Self Made Man #Made #Contact

"I contact Allah the Holy the Merciful on a daily basis."

--- Al-Saadi Gaddafi

#Contact #Merciful #Bases

"It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better."

--- Alain Prost

#People #Direct #Contact

"I played with Joey Mullen back in Salt Lake City before he got called up to St. Louis. He was the first player ever to score 20 goals in the American League and 20 in the NHL. I've kept in contact with him and he's a great guy."

--- Alain Vigneault

#Joey #Lakes #Contact

"Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay the infinitely possible? Out there ... lay six billion ears, all the people in the world available for contact and mystery and insult, unable to resist the beckoning of one small and villainous forefinger."

--- Alan Coren

#People #Ears #Contact

"Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?"

--- Alan Kay

#Contact #Lifelong #Values

"Effective science teaching calls for active contact with research and that teachers need to mingle with other scientists and to know what is going on in the field."

--- Alan Tower Waterman

#Fields #Contact #Teacher

"Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly."

--- Alan Watts

#Reality #Contact #Would Be

"We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that "I myself" is a seperate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body-a center which "confronts" an "external" world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange."

--- Alan Watts

#People #Living Organisms #Contact

"The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch."

--- Albert Bushnell Hart

#Contact #Institutions #Colony

"Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness."

--- Albert Camus

#Thinking #Heard #Contact

"Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources."

--- Albert Einstein

#Art Appreciation #Contact #Source

"My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude."

--- Albert Einstein

#Justice #Passionate #Social Justice

"To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window."

--- Albert Einstein

#Traveller #Direct #Contact

"Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled."

--- Albert Einstein

#Contact #Primitive #Thinkable

"It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature."

--- Albert Hofmann

#Contact #Dangerous #Loses

30 "Contact" Quotes