Helen Keller Quotes

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

Helen Keller

• Mind
• Spirit
• Individual
• Pessimism
• Forgetfulness

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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
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• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
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• Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

  

  Barry Zito
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• I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
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• The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

  

  Naveen Jain
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• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
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• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
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• When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Want
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  • Blood

• My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • Nurse

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
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• I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
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• Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Good
  • You
  • Evil

• The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Internet
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• I drink a lot of water and I never leave the house without putting on moisturizer and lip gloss.

  

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• A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Good
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  • Moment

• Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.

  

  Kelsang Gyatso
  • Mind
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• I don't know anybody who doesn't hate being called alt.country. It just sounds like a website. I don't mind being called Americana, I don't mind being called country noir, or independent country is fine, but the words alt.country make me insane.

  

  Neko Case
  • Country
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  • Words

• Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Mistake

• Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Mind
  • Spirit
  • Individual