Quotes of: Helen-keller Keyword

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Fran Lebowitz

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Liz Williams

When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

Mohsin Hamid

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

Stanislav Grof

The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

Stanislav Grof

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

William Shakespeare

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

Justin Cronin

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

Richard Dawkins

We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Richard Dawkins

I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.

Sylvia Browne

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

Condoleezza Rice

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Dimnet

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Freya Stark

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

Leslie Fiedler

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Sigmund Freud

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.

Walter Russell Mead

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

Andrew Sullivan