Deaf Quotes (page 5)

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• sorry
• avoiding
• loser

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs Stephen Fry

• cold
• coldness
• usual

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears. Ellis Peters

• world
• worldly
• perhaps

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf. Margaret Atwood

• men
• locked
• flattery

I'll lock thy heaven from thee. O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! William Shakespeare

• time
• power words
• lies

Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking. John Berger

• men
• walking
• street

The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots. Sylvia Plath

• said
• idea
• temporarily

I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry. J. K. Rowling

• kindness
• understanding
• dumb

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. Christian Nestell Bovee

• graduation
• she
• college graduation

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem? Charles Stanley

• alone
• tired
• look

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan Carlos Castaneda

• hand
• waves
• food

Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see. C. S. Lewis

• powerful
• humanity
• greatness

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life. Helen Keller

• beautiful
• my love
• feeling

Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee.'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath... William Shakespeare

• had
• acts
• keeps

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all. Ken Kesey

• kindness
• evening
• dumb

You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem to work so much by reason or instinct, or simply because he had been tuitored into it, or by any intermixture of all of these , even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb , sponteneous literal process. Herman Melville