Helen Keller Quotes

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Helen Keller

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• Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Brazil

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Stop

• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Live
  • Age
  • Innocence

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

  

  Ed Asner
  • People
  • Credit
  • Sheep

• Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Air

• Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection.. .My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Nature
  • Mysterious

• The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Pretty
  • Son
  • King

• The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This is me. I'm black. Black Lives Matter. Black pride. Look at my cocoa skin.' I just feel it's my being.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Black

• Leadership changes, and evolving marketplace conditions can significantly impact business strategy.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Business
  • Leadership

• I'm such a good sleeper that I can have tea any time of day, and I will have no problem taking a nap. I'm a professional napper.

  

  Darby Stanchfield
  • Time
  • Good
  • Professional

• Paperbacks of those we deem classics should be cheap and sold at supermarkets.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon them the will of God is wrought as alone it can be; appearing at first sight bitter and ungracious, though in reality merciful and loving in the highest degree. To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

  

  S. A. Bodeen
  • Writing

• By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • History
  • Past
  • Best

• I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

  

  William Klein
  • Believe
  • Photography
  • Degrees

• I write about six to seven hours a day, five days a week, unless I'm traveling.

  

  Jason Reynolds

• I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Enlightenment
  • Degrees
  • Civilisation