Helen Keller Quotes
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Quotes to Explore
-
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
-
Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
-
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
-
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
-
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.
-
We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
-
I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
-
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
-
I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.
-
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
-
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
-
Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
-
Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?
-
'We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing.'
-
I gathered that the old fellow suffers from some advanced form of senile dementia, and so perhaps his analysis is not totally accurate.
-
For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability, he panics and loses his ability to adapt.
-
Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
-
I just don't like talking about my relationships or anything like that, in any reference.
-
If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.
-
It's pretty hard when you are Caesar and everyone is saying how wonderful you are and they are giving you all the goodies and the girls, it's pretty hard to break out of that, to say 'Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.'
-
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
-
The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.
-
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
