Helen Keller Quotes

It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

Helen Keller

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

  

  Walter Smith
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Management

• A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Difficult
  • Pleasure
  • Bear

• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Suits
  • Shoe

• People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Like

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Ordinary

• People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Why
  • Find
  • Curious

• When you're winning games, everyone thinks everything the manager says and does is fantastic. Then it goes the other way, and those earlier criticisms of players can backfire.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Winning
  • Games
  • Manager

• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • More

• I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from other players or watch some video and see what kind of move would work in the same situation.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Practice

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Expect
  • Expecting

• I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

  

  Matthew Fox

• Your own inner capabilities and potentials are more varied and powerful than you realize. The purpose of this book is to enable you to recognize and use them in daily life. You use them now, but in a subdued and inefficient manner. They work in spite of you.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Life
  • Work
  • Book

• Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can't imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn't also a way of controlling people.

  

  Barbara Katz Rothman
  • Imagine
  • Race
  • Project

• If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on the economy would be catastrophic.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • American
  • History

• Arms wrapped around his neck, she kissed his temple. "I'm sorry I scared you." It wasn't the done thing for an archangel to admit fear, but he was hers, and she'd hurt him without meaning to; it was up to her to fix her mistake. His wings shifted, but he didn't extricate their bodies. "I didn't know fear until you, Elena. Use the power wisely.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • Done
  • She

• It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.

  

  Helen Keller
  • History
  • Fear