Helen Keller Quotes

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

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• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Know
  • Tolerance

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Long
  • Live
  • War

• Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Know
  • Control
  • Creative

• To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Live
  • Wisdom

• Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

  

  J. D. Salinger

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  Cristiano Ronaldo

• About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • History
  • Happy
  • Freedom

• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Up

• We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

  

  Jennifer Pahlka
  • Work

• There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

  

  Dean Martin

• I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

  

  Kristen Johnston

• I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • She
  • Advice

• The crafting of lyrics is really a task, and when it comes to street culture, I don't feel like anyone else articulates it better than me.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
  • Culture
  • Lyrics

• There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: "Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread." They're like, "You have your own bread?" And I'll pull it out!

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Bread

• You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Work
  • Difference
  • Worthwhile

• What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. My parents said, "We have a place where we can just be ourselves and nobody says, 'Don't tell me your opinion, you damn Jew, go somewhere else.'" Then you go to this country and other Jews tell you to shut up. It's frustrating. I think that we have a bad government and that some people are fearful. They're going with the class bully. But I really truly believe - you read it in my stories - that deep inside, people have goodness.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Opinion

• The only place to go now is into the context. If you can find it. Between the context and the content, between the mainline and the hardline, falls the shadow.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Shadow

• When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun. There is always a bright side - even if only that it is not worse...and it can always be worse

  

  Helen Keller
  • Feels
  • Shadow
  • Gratitude