Touching

Famous quotes containing the word touching:

    Did she in touching that lone wing
    Recall the years before her mind
    Became a bitter, an abstract thing...?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I approach these questions unwillingly, as it wounds, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.
    Titus Livius (Livy)

    An accurate charting of the American woman’s progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time—but like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal. . . . Each time, the spiral turns her back just short of the finish line.
    Susan Faludi (20th century)