(55 quotes found)
“We try to warn them of the risks but they are deaf to what we say.”
Ahmedou Ould Haye
“From what I understand, Treasury is politically tone-deaf on this. They didn't think they even had to talk to anybody about this.”
Rep. Pete King
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”
C.S. Lewis
“No one told him he had limitations. We just told him he was deaf and blind.”
Janie Bess
“How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.”
Steve Maraboli
““The problem is not that the (deaf) students do not hear. The problem is that the hearing world does not listen."”
Jesse Jackson
“Surely you do not make the dead to hear, and you do not make the deaf to hear the call when they go back retreating.”
quran
“What! can you then make the deaf to hear or guide the blind and him who is in clear error? / But if We should take you away, still We shall inflict retribution on them; / Rather We will certainly show you that which We have promised them; for surely We are the possessors of full power over them.”
“It's all fallen on deaf ears.”
Jim Sanford
“The analogy I like is this: imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception,”
Albert Einstein