Hearing Quotes - Page 17

• And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.

  John Dryden

  Running, Church, Doctrine

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.300, Pearson Education

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• The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

  Sophocles

  Men, Obedience, He Man

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

  Max Beerbohm

  Sage, Idiot, Mere

  Sir Max Beerbohm, Rupert Hart-Davis (1988). “Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892-1956”

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• You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

  Keith Richards

  Art, Real, Loneliness

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• The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Rehearsal, Stuff, Assuming

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• I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.

  Buzzie Bavasi

  Baseball, Tired, Play

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• I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Dream, Believe, Eye

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• The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

  Louise Erdrich

  Music, Feelings, Sound

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• He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies. I'm not hearing the same things at the briefings that I'm hearing from the president's top officials.

  Russ Feingold

  Agency, President, Together

  "Congress presses Iraq debate". www.cnn.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Democratic Rep. Charles Schumer of New York made a plea to Livingston, the incoming speaker. These new hearings, these new subpoenas wave a red flag that common sense and common wisdom are not welcome here, .. Mr. Livingston, this may be the first and most important task you will ever face as speaker. Lead us out of this abyss.

  Charles Schumer

  New York, Red Flags, Common Sense

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• Judge Roberts' civil rights record and views remained the most controversial and unexplained part of his record when the Judiciary Committee hearing concluded, just as his civil rights record and views had been the most controversial part of his record when the hearing began.

  Mel Watt

  Rights, Views, Civilization

  "Reid Announces Opposition to Roberts" by Brian Wilson, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2005.

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• When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.

  Diane Ravitch

  Wise, Book, Pressure Groups

  "Some educators take issue with textbooks" by Casey Wian, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2003.

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• My dream of happiness: a quiet spot by the Jamaican seashore . . . hearing the wind sob with the beauty and the tragedy of everything. Sitting under an almond tree, with the leaf spread over me like an umbrella.

  Errol Flynn

  Dream, Wind, Tree

  Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.413, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

  Brigham Young

  Music, Sweet, Voice

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• I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Believe, Government, Oil

  Gerald R. Ford's remarks on his nomination to be Vice-President during hearings before the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, November 15, 1973.

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• I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price.

  David Ayer

  War, Military, Emotional

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• Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Women, Love Is, Giving

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1873). “Works”, p.457

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• Since I was a kid, I'd wake up every morning hearing a voice say, 'You're the greatest rapper ever.' I'm trying to prove that voice right.

  Danny Brown

  Morning, Kids, Rapper

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• STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Dream, Book, Dark

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• ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.

  Steve Gleason

  Eye, People, Doe

  "Atlanta Radio Hosts Fired After Mocking Steve Gleason, ALS During ‘Mayhem In the AM’ Show" By Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.

  Criss Jami

  Tired, Sight, People

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

  Criss Jami

  Ears, Want, Surface

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.9, Criss Jami

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• Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).

  Mark Salzman

  Compassion, Our World, Justice

  Mark Salzman (2007). “True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall”, p.155, Vintage

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• how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

  e. e. cummings

  Breathing, Touching, Doubt

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.167, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.

  Rosa Parks

  Girl, Sleep, Night

  "Standing Up for Freedom". Academy of Achievement, October 31, 2005.

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