Surdus Quotes & Sayings

It is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. — Khaled Hosseini

The word listen in Latin is audire. If we listen with full attention in which we are totally geared to listen, it's called ob-audire, and that's where the word obedience comes from. Jesus is the obedient one. That means he is total ear, totally open to the love of God. And if we are closed, and to the degree that we are closed, we are surdus. That is the Latin word for deaf. The more "deaf" we get, the more absurdus — Henri J.M. Nouwen

In London they don't like you if you're still alive. — Harvey Fierstein

Knowing you might not make it ... in that knowledge courage is born. — William S. Burroughs

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do. — Charles Yu

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I thought, 'If you're going to be on TV, and if you're going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home.' — Pamela Anderson