Helen Keller Quotes

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Helen Keller

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• Fate
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• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Funny
  • Find
  • Temptation

• I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • People
  • Eating
  • Cook

• How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Know

• In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Amazing
  • Years
  • Over

• Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Things
  • Actor
  • Chef

• It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • True
  • Paris

• We always think that we're going to be young forever, and now when I wake up, I need to stretch, and I need to have my glass of water and be cognizant of what I'm doing with my body.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Water
  • Forever

• The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Women
  • Sports

• I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Men
  • She
  • Day

• Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Way
  • Talking
  • Relationships

• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Living
  • Dead
  • Labor

• As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Girl
  • Fear
  • Nice

• I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Interesting

• 'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Think

• I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Know
  • Prayer

• I'm really, really emotional.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Emotional
  • Really

• I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Walk
  • Forest
  • Trees

• I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Faith
  • Humility

• Bright lights, they tend to burn out fast. So I shine bright, but I'm scared that it won't last.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Lasts
  • Shine
  • Scared

• I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Sunday
  • Superstitions
  • Socks

• I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Control
  • Support
  • Gun

• We were definitely a live band. There were a lot of gigs in those days. The London area where we came from there was probably three times as many venues as there are now.

  

  Jim McCarty Box of Frogs
  • Live
  • Band
  • Area

• To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Chance
  • Spirit
  • Fate