Best 476 quotes in «hearing quotes» category

Wonders amaze me. They can aim wanderlessly in any forest, be it of dark trees or lighted bushes. And apparently, as per what I’ve heard, they can buy stuff that’s on sale, but only if and when they feel wonderfully wonderful. Because otherwise they wouldn’t really be themselves, which would be a problem for them, because if they aren’t what they are - they can’t exist, and if they don’t exist – that makes them invisible and silent to all the wandering people, who may or may not be looking for them to sell themselves to.

When you constantly hear the wrong things, the power of the truth you knew before loses its grip.

You become what you hear regularly.

Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear.

While still practising law, he'd run a hearse-rental agency. Then, later, he'd bought into a handkerchief factory in Baker Park. Their most famous innovation was the funeral hankerchief, a plain white cotton handkerchief with a black border. Not long afterwards he patented the first black-edged tissue. He'd made millions, apparently, though nobody knew what he'd done with the money. His only extravagance had been to install an elevator in the house, so he could move between floors without getting out of his wheelchair. 'So what did he mean about hearing money?' Jed asked. 'It's his factory across the river. He claims he can hear the money being made.

After creating something and hearing from someone that it really helped them or changed their life motivates me to continue doing this.

You’re going to listen to me, and for once you’re going to hear what I say and not read between lines that aren’t there.

When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good!

A fearful man is always hearing things.

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense at everything.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.

A hearing heart loves to whom it listens.

All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep.

And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think you lose the hearing audience.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.

[Barack Obama and Susan Rice] simply do not want any hearings on Benghazi, and they wouldn't be able to avoid it if she's up there as secretary of state.

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

At one congressional hearing, Bishop Francis Kalabat complained that administration officials are overlooking what's happening to his fellow Chaldean Christians.

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

A sure sign of a crisis is the prevalence of cranks. It is characteristic of a crisis in theory that cranks get a hearing from the public which orthodoxy is failing to satisfy.

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite a bit of interest... Since most of the material presented to the committee is classified, the hearings are never printed.

Candidates [Hillary Clinton and Donald trump], we look forward to hearing you articulate your policies and your positions, as well as your visions and your values.

Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.

Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.

Donald Trump is still hitting all the same notes. He's making the sale. We're hearing from his aides at every event.

Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind.

Even before the hearings that led to confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, senators were saying they were reserving judgment on how they would vote until they got to know him better at the hearings.

Exactly what part of that is supposed to make me feel better?" Though, honestly, hearing that she was jealous of me did make me feel a teeny, tiny bit better.

Faith comes by hearing all the Word, not just preferred sections.

Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.

By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

For better or worse I'm the writer I am today because of hearing those Dylan records. For better and most certainly not for worse, I'm the person I am today because of hearing Charles.

For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.