Helen Keller Quotes

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

Helen Keller

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• We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Life
  • Yourself

• The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Live
  • Commitment

• I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Work
  • Different
  • Travel

• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Love
  • Support
  • Son

• I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Good
  • Balance

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Good
  • American
  • Dream

• I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Leader

• Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Food
  • Honor

• Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Mind
  • Dark
  • Questions

• We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Long
  • Freedom

• Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Women
  • History

• When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • Real
  • City

• I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Star

• The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Air

• 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

• When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays for people to go and see, to take them on a journey of recognition so that they could see themselves within the characters on the stage. We as actors and theater companies and film companies have forgotten that.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • People
  • Shakespeare
  • Wrote

• Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places of the earth, some harassed by spirits. Under all circumstances they suffer with the irrational part of their nature, with which they also sinned. For its sake there subsists that shadowy body which is seen about graves, especially the graves of evil livers.

  

  Sallust
  • Souls
  • Suffer
  • Punished

• I don't like those songs where you have to listen to a story to get into them. I don't want to have to pay attention to music in that way, I just want it to hit me in the heart and do what music's supposed to do.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Music
  • Way
  • Attention

• The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • World
  • Future
  • Past

• Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Humanity
  • Eye
  • Blind