Helen Keller Quotes

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

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• We must defend what we have achieved so far.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Achieved
  • Far
  • Defend

• This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Need

• After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Good
  • Chance

• The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Change
  • Wall
  • Force

• Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Time
  • Change
  • Social mores

• On one level, I realize the basic appeal of my character is her body. But the totality of the Conan film is really much more than that. When I read the script, I thought it was just a matter of sword fighting. But when I read the books, I found they were filled with sorcery, and I liked that very much. I've always loved fairy tales, and I've always believed that just around the corner, magic truly does exist, human magic.

  

  Valérie Quennessen
  • Character
  • Realize
  • Level

• Without passions you have no experience whatever.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Experience
  • Have
  • Passions

• Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Heart
  • Quality
  • Endurance

• These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Convictions
  • Humane
  • Real Choices

• We have to do a better job of taking care of the basketball, but their pressure had a lot to do with it.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Job
  • Care
  • Basketball

• Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Thee
  • Weary
  • Stains

• I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Hands
  • Despite
  • Shake

• Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Numbers
  • Table
  • Awkwardest

• Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.

  

  David Banner
  • Earth
  • Learn
  • Place

• The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country where it is unnecessary to have a past, what is a luxury for the nation as a whole becomes a prime social necessity for the Negro. For him, a group tradition must supply compensation for persecution, and pride of race the antidote for prejudice. History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generation must repair and offset.

  

  Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
  • Past
  • Slavery
  • Negro

• There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Time
  • Rain
  • Sensation

• I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.

  

  William Styron
  • People
  • Country
  • Mean

• Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Government
  • Philanthropy
  • Middle East

• I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Tragic
  • Philanthropy