Helen Keller Quotes

Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

Helen Keller

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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • People
  • Remember
  • I Can

• People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Life
  • Long
  • Alone

• Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.

  

  M.I.A.
  • World
  • Different
  • Tiger

• I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Improve
  • Still
  • Lot

• There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Long
  • Thought

• Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Taste
  • Personal
  • Niche

• Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Fall
  • Well
  • Pilot

• When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Big

• I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Desire
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Guitar

• We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Wall
  • Promise
  • Security

• Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Poetry

• Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Interesting

• She said, 'Spell 'ant' ', and I wrote out the entire alphabet. She said, 'That doesn't spell 'ant' ', and I said, 'It's in there somewhere! There's the A, there's the N, there's the T – the rest are silent!'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • She
  • Rest

• We cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides; - But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Fire

• The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

  

  James Shirley
  • Men
  • Death

• You never learn anything in school. Think about how many car accidents happen every day. Driver’s ed? What’s up? I still haven’t been to driver’s ed because if everybody I know has been in an accident, I can’t see how driver’s ed is really helping them out.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • Up
  • School
  • Car

• Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Heart
  • Goal
  • Labor