Hearing Quotes - Page 8

• Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Truth, Sound, Firsts

  Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”

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• Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Waiting, Violin

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.3, Vintage

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• Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Eye, Hands

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• Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

  John Lahr

  Music, Science, Silence

  John Lahr (1970). “Up against the fourth wall: essays on modern theater”

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• average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Moving, Thinking, Average

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• One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Heard

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1851). “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer”, p.308

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• I'd like something that faces reality. We have 12 million people in this country that are undocumented - that's a reality. It's not going to be like they're all going to leave. One of the reasons I'm holding this hearing in the morning is to hear from somebody who actually understands what's involved here - Janet Napolitano - and I hope that from what she says and what we hear from her, we can start building some consensus.

  Patrick Leahy

  Country, Morning, Reality

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• For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Humanity, Environmental

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• I never get tired of hearing compliments.

  John Lithgow

  Tired, Compliment

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• Hearing the blues changed my life.

  Van Morrison

  Changed, Changed My Life

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• I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

  Chi McBride

  Men, Years, People

  "Chi McBride of 'Boston Public'". Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2001.

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• There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Sick, Laughing, Lines

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• But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Humanity, Stills

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 88

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• The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  World, Christianity, Shocked

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• Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Tears, Trying, Way

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• The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Song, Play, Trying

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• Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Hate, Worry, Trying

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• So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.

  Ronnie Spector

  Song, Baby, Stills

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• To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Weekend, Thinking, Daddy

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• The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

  Cliff Stearns

  Years, Justice, Religion

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• I gained everything. Or at least I'll think so," he growled, suddenly impatient, anxious, "when you give me a bloody answer to my bloody question. How many times are you going to make me ask you? Will you marry me, Gabrielle O'Callaghan? Yes or yes? And in case you're still managing to miss the point, the correct answer is 'yes.' And, by the way, anytime you'd like to tell me you love me, I wouldn't mind hearing it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Giving, Missing

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• If what you hear preached doesn't cause faith to come and build faith in your spirit, then it either isn't the Word of God or else you're not hearing it

  Kenneth E. Hagin

  Causes, Spirit, Word Of God

  Kenneth E. Hagin (1993). “Mountain Moving Faith”, Kenneth Hagin Ministries

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• We can study various psychic functions and also the more primitive sensory functions, such as seeing, hearing, and so on, which constitute our image of our everyday world. They have a material side and the psychic side. And that is a gap which you cannot explain.

  Albert Hofmann

  Psychics, Everyday, Gaps

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?

  George Gissing

  Writing, Men, Nurse

  George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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