Helen Keller Quotes

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Helen Keller

• Mind
• Resources
• Quietness

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• By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.

  

  Jack Keane
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• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
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• If something is mine, then I want to keep it.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

  

  Ma Huateng
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  • Crisis

• I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • World
  • Live
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• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
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  • Ever

• I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Life
  • Important
  • Hope

• Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Age
  • Religion
  • Sex

• I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Write
  • Characters
  • Fingers

• George McGovern - and I campaigned very hard for his election - was not, in the summer of 1971, a strong feminist ally. But he did come around.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Strong
  • Summer
  • Feminist

• For me, it's all about smaller character-driven pieces, about finding a person that I connect with and that I'm interested in bringing to life.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Life
  • Character
  • Me

• I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Feeling
  • Storm
  • Grit

• You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power

• If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • May

• Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

  

  Lawyer

• Why worry? There should be laughter after pain.There should be sunshine after rain.These things have always been the same.So why worry now?

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Why
  • Pain
  • Worry

• Everything must belong somewhere.I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Why

• I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• A lot of people don't know how to navigate: they think, once you become a Christian, you essentially have to become Ned Flanders.

  

  Andy Mineo
  • People
  • Christian

• You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Teaches

• We've been going through some growing pains getting established, but I think it will continue to get better. I could see it becoming very successful.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Growing
  • Successful
  • Pains

• She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Understanding
  • Air
  • Needs

• Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Mind
  • Resources
  • Quietness