Deaf Quotes - Page 18

• Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

  Dalton Trumbo

  Fear, Sunshine, Dumb

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.111, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.

  Alexander Berkman

  Country, Kings, Heart

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• Trust me, baby, you weren’t that good. I was just a better actress than you were actor. (Zephyra to Stryker) Ew! No offense, Mum, I don’t want to know who you’ve slept with. Kill the sexual bantering and him before I go deaf from it. (Medea)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Actors, Want

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• Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Heart, Kissing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Girl, Years, Brain

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• But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

  Dev Patel

  Grease, Tone, Window

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind is in its own place and in each of us lies an inner life, the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear, and jolt one another's bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another's minds

  Gilbert Ryle

  Lying, Differences, People

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• The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Prayer, Hatred

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• Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Being tone deaf to religion does matter" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2012.

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• I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.

  Elvis Presley

  Religious, Army, Dumb

  Song: Saved

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• I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of one’s own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individuals–here I was to encounter an entire community.

  Oliver Sacks

  Mean, Community, Encounters

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• Deaf rage that hears no leader.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Anger, Leader, Rage

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• The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

  William Shakespeare

  Sacrifice, Hot, Vow

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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• Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.

  Pema Chodron

  Self, Bird, Tree

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf canvas listens, your words flow and you have done something.

  Walter Sickert

  One Day, Sitting, Done

  Wendy Baron, Walter Sickert (2006). “Sickert: Paintings and Drawings”, p.91, Yale University Press

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• I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people

  Joely Fisher

  Thinking, Two, People

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of The Brady Bunch. Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying “hi” to everyone, whether they knew me or not.

  Marlee Matlin

  Girl, Growing Up, Long

  "My Father’s Chutzpah" by Marlee Matlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2011.

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• As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

  Chinua Achebe

  Justice, Diversity, Long

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• I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspiring, Brother, Fighting

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Voice Of The Voiceless”

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• Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Pain, World

  "Fictional character: C. S. "Jack" Lewis". "Shadowlands", 1993.

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• Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Depression, God, Christian

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