Quotes of: Hearing Keyword

He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

Disgrace

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

Dreams Underfoot

...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.

Dear Sister: Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence

Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.

Emma

Where is it?" I asked, willing him to tell me. He laughed suddenly, and I could hear the full-throated, grating sound of the white bear's laughter in it. "East of the sun and west of the moon," he said.

East

I wished to no longer hear the grayed bones crunching underneath the brush or feel the now inexorable fear that seemed to work its way inside my rib cage, rocking me at my core.

Eve

To abandon a child, she had once said to someone, when she thought Cassandra couldn't hear, was an act so cold, so careless, it refused forgiveness.

The Forgotten Garden

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems

What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of, For good things, oft, are not so near; A German can't endure the French to see or hear of, Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.

Faust

I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

Did you hear about Katie Parkinson? ... She's going out with Christopher... They've been kissing." "It was like a Semtex explosion in my brain. I did not know whether to cry or run away.

Global Domination for Beginners

...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people...

A Girl of the Limberlost

Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.

The Green Mile

We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

Gestalt Therapy Integrated: Contours of Theory & Practice

We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.

Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a woman, Ned Ridley's woman.

The Girl

She was different. She liked hearing it, because she wanted to recall just enough of it to remember that she never wanted to go back to being the person she'd been before.

Happily Ever After

-Bumblebee bat, how do you see at night? -I make a squeaky sound that bounces back from whatever it hits. I see by hearing.

Hello, Bumblebee Bat

He mentioned the connection between us. He identified with me. These are the things that many people want to hear, that most “normal” people want to be able to truthfully say, but almost no one can.

Human Detritus

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Life isn't about the brand of clothes you wear, or about who looks the best. It's about the number of faces which smile when they hear your name

The Human Women Guide