Quotes of: Helen-keller Keyword

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

Patti Smith

My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was.

Tom Bodett

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Thomas Carlyle

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Bertrand Russell

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.

Walter Russell Mead

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, & every war has to me the horror od a family feud. I look upon the true patriotism as the brotherhood of man & the service to of all to all. The only fighting that saves is the one that helps the world to...

Rebel Lives: Helen Keller

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Civilization and Its Discontents

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Civilization and Its Discontents

Sunt convins ca hazardul, cu capriciile lui, e promotorul adevarat al tuturor faptelor mari din istoria omului, as zice al intregii civilizatii omenesti, ba chiar stapanul real al intregului univers.

Ciuleandra

perchè non c'è nessun altro dal quale andare! Bisogna pure che ogni uomo abbia qualche posto dove andare. Poichè ci sono momenti in cui assolutamente bisogna andare da qualche parte!

Crime and Punishment

She had dealt with her pregnancy by wrapping herself in dreams.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

The Beauty Myth

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Alfred Doblin

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

Bernard Werber