Famous Quotes & Sayings

Indian Proverb

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf

Christian Nevel Bovee

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

Helen Keller

''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 heartthrobs 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.

Don McKinnon

I think the plea is falling on deaf ears.

Ed Morgan

If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?

Hani Durzy

We made some suggestions that fell on deaf ears - that tells you about the motivations of people who support the bill.

Jewish Proverb

No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.

O. Henry

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Janie Bess

No one told him he had limitations. We just told him he was deaf and blind.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Gloria Moore

I wish he would've heeded the warning and left, but he didn't and we hurt,

Bob Newhart

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

Abu Hassan

We warn this is only a first step.

David Baldacci

Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.....

Peter Higgs

When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.

Jeff Kuckelman

We got them warn out a little bit.

Jamie Zawinski

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

Bobby Ray Inman

As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.