Helen Keller Quotes

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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• We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Stop

• I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peaceful

• The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Life
  • Live
  • Money

• The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Government
  • United

• It doesn't matter how old you are or what you do with your life, you will never stop needing your mum. And I will never stop needing mine, so thanks, Mum.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • You
  • Stop

• Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Emotions
  • Harmony

• Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Control
  • Lost

• I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Life
  • House
  • Nice

• The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Ideas

• Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Day
  • Everyday

• We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Life
  • Control
  • Pain

• I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you've been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn't know it until you've been presented with these issues.'

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Life
  • God
  • Kids

• There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • True
  • Passion

• Do those serving life sentences deserve access to educational opportunities never having a future beyond bars? The answer is yes and necessitates that in-prison education serves additional goals beyond reducing recidivism.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Life
  • Future
  • Education

• We had nothing, no television, no radio, nothing to get in the way. We read by the streetlight at the top of the lane, and we acted out the stories.

  

  Frank McCourt

• The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

  

  Plato
  • Earth
  • Balls
  • Pieces Of Skin

• I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Home
  • Together
  • History

• If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Believe
  • Integrity

• There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Life
  • Slave
  • Ancestor