Bell Quotes

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. (Graham Greene)
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. View quote
Ayn Rand
I shall curse you with book and bell and candle. View quote
Thomas Malory
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more. The Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
How did I know that someday - at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere - the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? View quote
Sylvia Plath
Wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air. View quote
Sylvia Plath
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
The play is done the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompters bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell. It is an irksome word and task And when hes laughed and said his say He shows, as he removes the mask, A face thats anything but gay. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen! all for the glory of God and the good of souls! The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave-trade go hand in hand. View quote
Frederick Douglass
I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing - for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears. View quote
Temple Grandin
A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away! View quote
Oscar Hammerstein II
I remember too, a distant bell... and stars that fell... like the rain out of the blue. View quote
Johnny Mercer
The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time. View quote
Tibor Fischer
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. View quote
Walter Bagehot
I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rights. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But i can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting. View quote
Roberto Durán
Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell. (Oprah Winfrey)
The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives. View quote
Angela Merkel
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. View quote
Matsuo Bashō
I have heard of a monk who in his cell, had a glorious vision of Jesus revealed to him. Just then, a bell rang, which called him away to distribute loaves of bread among the poor beggars at the gate. He was sorely tried as to whether he should lose a scene so inspiring. He went to his act of mercy; and when he came back, the vision remained more glorious than ever. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity. View quote
Otto Weininger
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