(...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to… — Christopher McCandless Copy Share Image
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good,… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it,… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A friend got attacked outside a nightclub just for being deaf. I stuck up for him but ended up getting in a… — Jamie Vardy Copy Share Image
If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
In Australia, a deaf person attending an interview must take their own interpreter at their own expense, or ask the employer to… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Is not the real experience of each individual very limited? And, if a writer dwells upon that solely or principally, is he… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs. And as long as we have our films, we… — George Veditz Copy Share Image
If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
Because we make ourselves deaf to feedback, because we overestimate our abilities, because we become consumed with ourselves, we end up subjecting… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt.… — Frank Peretti Copy Share Image
So when I heard that we don't have our names, we don't speak our true Arabic language, we were robbed of Islam,… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The deaf community has shaped me as an artist and a person, and I am very grateful that I have been able… — Michael Arden Copy Share Image
I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
Throughout my childhood, I had served as an interpreter for my family. When I left home, I also left the Deaf community.… — Kambri Crews Copy Share Image
In the deaf community, we give people name signs based on their quirks or characteristics. So it means you can't really give… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive...… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
I tell cold callers I'm very interested but a bit deaf, my hearing aid is not working properly and can they speak… — Sean O'Grady Copy Share Image
While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so… — Zach LaVine Copy Share Image
Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
They're really supportive, and I love my family to bits, but I did feel, growing up, that I would love to have… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I did my first series lead back in 1991 on a show called 'Reasonable Doubts' and have done many shows with other… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
Consumers cannot think in abstractions. They cannot envision a new concept. They cannot predict their behavior. They can only compare against their… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
