#deaf

Ken brought my hand to his lips and kissed it. I'd been paying so much attention to Ken, I didn't know what happened during the game. I don't think anyone cared too much what the outcome was after Ken's at bat. "Do you know who won?" I asked Cooper, who automatically translated into sign language for Shawn. Shawn laughed his odd laugh and signed something back. He looked at Ken, who had an arm wrapped possessively around my waist. Cooper grinned. "Shawn says it looks like you did, Jordie. ↗

— Z.A. Maxfield

#gay #homosexuality #physical-therapy #homosexuality

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad. ↗

— Larry David

#bad #birds #deaf #hear #i

I am going slightly deaf in my right ear. It's tinnitus... something like that. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#deaf #ear #going #i #i am

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#become #belief #blind #deaf #destined

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#happens #i #musician #who

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? ↗

— Frank Herbert

#around #cannot #deaf #deafness #fact

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. ↗

— David Hockney

#clearer #deafness #hear #i #makes

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#deaf #dumb #god #hears #heart

Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#after #assassination #being #biggest #bin