Deaf Quotes - Page 18

• There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Peers, Noble

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• There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Real, Selfishness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.274, The Floating Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

  Conor Oberst

  Together, Blind, Torah

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• My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all, ... My mom had to take him to every school there possibly was to get him some education. He ended up first in Columbus, Ohio, for grade school, then went to a high school for the deaf and Galludet in Washington.

  Les Miles

  Mom, Brother, Home

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• Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.

  Julian Simon

  Moving, Past, Hands

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• There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Power, Men, Advice

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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