Helen Keller Quotes

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Helen Keller

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• 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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Children
  • Light

• 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.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Different
  • True

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Aesthetic
  • Classic
  • Edge

• You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • May
  • Lose
  • Loss

• 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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Football
  • Risk
  • Fire

• 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.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Lost

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Nature
  • Suffering

• Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.

  

  Carlo Goldoni

• 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?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Strong
  • Giving

• 'We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Love
  • Should
  • For Her

• Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Brain

• I just don't like talking about my relationships or anything like that, in any reference.

  

  Emma Roberts

• I worked for a temp agency called Manpower.

  

  Kevin Nealon

• I do not say anything from jealousy.

  

  Anna Held
  • Jealousy

• The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Relationship
  • Best
  • Healthy

• Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Black
  • Funny
  • Never

• We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

  

  Kanye West
  • Culture
  • Rock
  • Rap

• Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang publicly, so that people see it) at least 100 kulaks, rich bastards, and known bloodsuckers. (2) Publish their names. (3) Seize all their grain. (4) Single out the hostages per my instructions in yesterday's telegram. Do all this so that for miles around people see it all, understand it, tremble, and tell themselves that we are killing the bloodthirsty kulaks and that we will continue to do so ...Find tougher people.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • War
  • Mean

• The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Art
  • Enemy
  • React

• Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Enemy
  • Pity