Top 100 Keller Quotes
#1. Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?
Robert Charles Wilson
#2. I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller - and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Karen Quan
#3. Some golfers fantasize about playing in a foursome with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Sam Snead. The way I hit I'd rather play in a foursome with Helen Keller, Ray Charles, and Stevie Wonder.
Bruce Lansky
#4. Luis hopes for heaven.
Keller fears hell.
Vera fears only death, and that because he takes such pleasure in life.
Don Winslow
#5. Famous INFPs include Isabel Myers (creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), St. John the disciple, Carl Rogers, Princess Diana, George Orwell, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Rogers, A.A. Milne, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, and William Shakespeare.
Molly Owens
#6. If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense? What year did Jesus think it was?
George Carlin
#7. In the deserted men's restroom at the back of Middleton Community College, Sam Keller knelt on the tile, braced his hands against Keith Jameson's thighs, and broke his mother's heart.
Heidi Cullinan
#8. Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.
Karl Popper
#9. Upon learning that Hall was the man who had invented the typewriter she used so often, the girl put her arms around his neck and gave him a huge hug and kiss. Forever afterward, whenever Hall told this story of how he met Helen Keller, tears would fill his eyes.
Erik Larson
#10. Keller has long believed that you have to be lucky to be good, but not good to be lucky.
Don Winslow
#11. Tim Keller observes, "We are all exclusive in our beliefs about religion, but in different ways."3
Vern Sheridan Poythress
#12. What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. Helen Keller
Bruce Van Horn
#13. Failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.
Joyce Carol Oates
#14. A woman named Helen Keller fought her way through long, silent darkness.
Though she could not see or hear;
she taught us to look at and listen to each other.
Never waiting for life to get easier,
she gave others courage to face their challenges.
Barack Obama
#15. The Labor Department's Hall of Honor recognizes men and women - like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller and the Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike - who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of American workers.
Thomas Perez
#16. Dr. Keller begins pacing. "I don't think we've been hearing Faith just right. Her guard ... the words..they sound alike."
What do you mean?"
Your daughter," Dr. Keller says flatly. "I think she's seeing God.
Jodi Picoult
#17. Mediocrity has become something that's acceptable," Keller says, "and in many cases, something that is aspirational." To
Dan Charnas
#18. They attacked you? (Danger)
No, I beat my own self up. What do you think? (Keller)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#19. Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because
she couldn't remember the lines.
Joan Rivers
#20. I waved to him, and he waved back. I tried not to think about how Chad couldn't see me doing that now. Helen Keller said that when you lose one sense, another one grows stronger. But by the time Chad learned how to hear me waving, it would be too late.
Jennifer Gooch Hummer
#21. To be honest with you, I've always felt a little Jewish." "You have an aversion to shellfish and German opera?" "I was speaking in a spiritual sense." "You're a professional assassin, Keller.
Daniel Silva
#22. There are also some moving sections about World War II in Anthony Burgess's Any Old Iron, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, Kit Reed's At War As Children, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, and Nancy Willard's Things Invisible to See.
Nancy Pearl
#23. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. HELEN KELLER
Dave Ramsey
#24. In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country.
Michael Burgess
#25. people excel in the art of hugging. They somehow manage to hug you with their whole being, not just their arms. Their warmth surrounds every inch of you. It makes you feel cherished and comforted. Keller
Kim Holden
#26. Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#27. Don't ask me any more questions, Keller. I'm just going to lie to you and I'd rather not have the stress of trying to remember what lie I handed you. (Alexion)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#28. I wear loud clothes. They aren't bright colors, but I do have speakers sewn into my shirts. What can I say, I've grown out of dressing like Helen Keller.
Jarod Kintz
#29. They got a manure machine in there," Keller said. He went up to the barn and peeked through a hole between tow boards. "On wheels. It's fun to ride sometimes, when you don't care how you smell.
Sandra Neil Wallace
#30. Jesus, Neal, watching you eat with a spork is like seeing Helen Keller at a ladies' afternoon tea.
Douglas Coupland
#31. They say that love conquers all. They're wrong, Keller thinks. Hate conquers all. It even conquers hate.
Don Winslow
#32. Lemme take your picture! You fucking bok gwai low got a face carved out of rotten potato cured in dogshit, runover with a towtruck driven by Hellen Keller in a puke fit on pills ...
Frank Chin
#33. Keller entered the hotel, aware of the fact that several
Daniel Silva
#34. Listen, girlie," said one of the executives of Cadillac, a particularly troubled company, to Maryann Keller, an astute and skeptical financial analyst on Wall Street, "it's ready to turn around, and it's going to be bigger than ever.
David Halberstam
#35. How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I could tell them a few things. I got to study with [chef] Thomas Keller, who we all love as a guy and Jim had a relationship with him at [his restaurant] the French Laundry.
Adam Sandler
#36. Many American players - Paul Caligiuri, Claudio Reyna, Eric Wynalda, Kasey Keller, Tony Sanneh, Michael Bradley and Steve Cherundolo, just a partial list - have sought the income and challenge of Germany.
George Vecsey
#37. We are all cripples, Keller thinks, limping together through this crippled world. It's what we owe to each other.
Don Winslow
#38. No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller ... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.
Theodore Zeldin
#39. All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
Jacques Pepin
#40. Timothy Keller says my problem was not the situation I was in; rather, I struggled because I built my identity on something other than Jesus.
Laurel Griffith
#41. Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of the new, modern chef is different.
David Chang
#42. Research by the Keller Fay Group finds that only 7 percent of word-of-mouth happens online.
Jonah
#43. I hope you are looking forward to the tsunami of industrial effluent which is coming your way in the first quarter of the new year. You will not be able to avoid it, unless you are Helen Keller. One way or another, Wills and Kate are going to get you.
Rod Liddle
#44. Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
#45. I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.
Lee Tergesen
#46. Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.
Napoleon Hill
#47. Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.
Billy Graham
#48. Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?
Charles F. Stanley
#49. Maybe, Keller thinks, I've become too used to solitude. Maybe I like it too much.
Don Winslow
#50. That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.
L.J.Smith
#51. No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.
Richard Masur
#52. And wasn't that a great moment in baseball history," Holly Grace replied with withering sarcasm. "Helen Keller pitching and Little Stevie Wonder catching.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#53. It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not.
A.M. Homes
#54. Keller couldn't form any words for a moment. Then she said, "Galen? When you choose a form, choose something gentle."
I thought you thought everybody had to be a fighter." He said.
Some people shouldnt have to be.
L.J.Smith
#55. When, in the immediate postwar era, someone at Chrysler had designed a smaller, low-slung car, K. T. Keller, the company's top executive, had mocked it. "Chrysler builds cars to sit in," he said, "not to piss over.
David Halberstam
#56. There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless and purposeless life. Helen Keller
Robin S. Sharma
#57. Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.
Timothy Keller
#58. It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and text of my mind.
Helen Keller
#59. Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.
Timothy Keller
#60. Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
Helen Keller
#61. You have been saved through a dying sacrifice, so you are free to be a living one.
Timothy J. Keller
#62. The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.
Helen Keller
#64. To understand the Scripture is not simply to get information about God. If attended to with trust and faith, the Bible is the way to actually hear God speaking and also to meet God himself.
Timothy J. Keller
#65. Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right.
Helen Keller
#66. Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
Timothy Keller
#67. The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Helen Keller
#68. Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller
#69. I distrust the rash optimism in this country that cries, "Hurrah, we're all right! This is the greatest nation on earth," when there are grievances that call loudly for redress.
Helen Keller
#70. Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.
Helen Keller
#71. The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Helen Keller
#72. But contemporary capitalism increasingly has the power to eliminate the intimacy and accountability of human relationships. So in the marketplace, as in every field, there is an urgent need for those with a powerful compass.
Timothy Keller
#73. To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.
Helen Keller
#74. If God is real, why does he align perfectly with our views? We should expect God to challenge us on what we think is right somewhere
Timothy Keller
#75. The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.
Helen Keller
#76. buying into The ONE Thing becomes difficult because we've unfortunately bought into too many others - and more often than not those "other things" muddle our thinking, misguide our actions, and sidetrack our success.
Gary Keller
#78. Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.
Helen Keller
#79. Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
Helen Keller
#81. Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
Helen Keller
#82. A Seattle lawyer once interrupted his lengthy cross-examination of a witness and exclaimed, "Your Honor, one of the jurors is asleep." "You put him to sleep," replied the judge. "Suppose you wake him up."
James Keller
#83. Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.
Timothy Keller
#84. Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.
Thomas Keller
#85. Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.
Timothy Keller
#86. Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.
Timothy Keller
#87. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content
Helen Keller
#88. Self-righteousness is always self-condemnatory. And self-righteousness is the preserve of the moralist.
Timothy Keller
#89. No person or group ever conforms completely to a type.
Timothy Keller
#90. It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me ... if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me ...
Helen Keller
#91. Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals.
Helen Keller
#92. Holiness gives us new desires and brings old desires into line with one another.
Timothy Keller
#93. The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.
Helen Keller
#94. There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
Timothy Keller
#95. So much has been given to me I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.
Helen Keller
#96. The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Helen Keller
#97. How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
Timothy Keller
#99. It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.
Timothy Keller
#100. Temptation isn't impersonal - there is an actual enemy doing the tempting. Mark treats Satan as a reality, not a myth. This is certainly jarring in contemporary cultures that are skeptical of the existence of the supernatural, let alone the demonic.
Timothy Keller
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