Blind Quotes
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished: Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind; and you will have the oblivion you desire. (Quote by - William Bliss Carman)
Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square but I open my eyes and exclaim, "Good God! Here I am again!" not always with pleasure, often with pain; sometimes in a spasm. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
Every agency is going to tell you they are doing important things. But if we close our doors, literally hundreds and hundreds of people in Metropolitan Detroit will go blind. That's the impact we have on our community. People depend on us to save their eyesight. (Quote by - Bernard Miller)
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. (Quote by - Chanakya)
And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them: / Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel. (Quote by - Bible)
Within his stories there are textual references to blind storytellers, remember Homer (the Homers) may not have existed at all. If this was one man, the fact that he could remember such complex stories and legends and tell them with a single, embedded story line is remarkable. That indicates to some that he may have been blind. When one is blind, the other senses are heightened. That is some of the rationale behind the statement that Homer may have been blind. (Quote by - Susan Bloir)
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions. (Quote by - Chanakya)
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Authentic treachery is found when we abandon ourselves, becoming deaf to the whispers of our spirits and blind to the powerful potential therein. (Quote by - Joaquin Mariel Espinosa)
I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction. . (Quote by - Stockwell Day)
The Junior Blind Olympics provides an inspirational opportunity for blind and visually impaired children to challenge their abilities, surmount sight barriers and achieve their dreams. (Quote by - Jay Allen)
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness. (Quote by - John Milton)
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy. (Quote by - Martha Beck)
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or leave you with nothing at all. It's the eyes for the blind and legs for the lame. It is the love for hate and pride for shame. That's the power of the gospel. (Quote by - Ben Harper)
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes.. I really did not see the signal!. (Quote by - Horatio Nelson)
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law. (Quote by - Pope Gregory VII)
With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?. (Quote by - Richard Ney)
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress. (Quote by - Sierra Club Slogan)
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, ev. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
People who spend a lot of time outdoors--such as cyclists--are at higher risk for macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. Exposure to blue light seems partially to blame. (Quote by - Don Teig)
If you look away from something you're supposed to be looking for, that's called willful blindness, and willful blindness is one aspect of determining the negligence. (Quote by - Michael Shapiro)
replaced character building with permissiveness, the cure of souls with the cure of the psyche, blind justice with therapeutic justice, philosophy with social science, personal authority with an equally irrational authority of professional experts. It has tempered competition with antagonistic cooperation . . . It has surrounded people with 'symbolically mediated information' and has substituted images of reality for reality itself. Without intending to, it has created new forms of illiteracy. (Quote by - Christopher Lasch)
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
There's none so blind as they that won't see. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? / The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. (Quote by - Bible)
Though love is blind, yet 'tis not for want of eyes. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
We have been educated to such a fine / or dull / point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
I didn't know anything else but growing up with a blind person in the house. When we found out Andrew was blind, we had 20 minutes of mourning and feeling sorry for ourselves, and then we said, 'Look at my brother.' I knew what was ahead. I knew he was going to be just a regular member of the family. (Quote by - Jackie Johnson)
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. (Quote by - Proverb)
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
the coldest night gives birth to the sweetest dawn forlorn stautues make love under the watch of seeds fermenting the soil demented minds no longer blinded as they found their niche the poorest man can indeed be rich. (Quote by - william j. berrioz)
When blind, you light the inner colors, create billions of intimate hues for space, time and life. (Quote by - Mariana Fulger)
The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party. (Quote by - Gordon Strachan)
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. (Quote by - Contributed by: Randi)
Love is not blind - It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less. (Quote by - Will Moss)
When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
It went through the both panes. Broke the blinds. Hit up there and shattered. (Quote by - Diane Blanchard)
We have kids who sometimes engage in willful blindness. I think that's one that can often make a difference in the jury room. (Quote by - Andrew Leipold)
The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley. (Quote by - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The problem is one of attitude. What is it that an IT professional expects from somebody who is blind Ñ do they think that a person will be able to do work, function as a normal human being, socialize and get along with people in the workplace? Or do they think a blind person is weird and can only pick up a phone? IT professionals should examine their thinking about blindness and root out the typical stereotypes. (Quote by - Curtis Chong)
Look at the big picture. Don't allow your vision to become shortsighted and never become blind to the most important things in your life. Establish priorities and stick to them, no matter what else is happening around you. (Quote by - Aaron Garrity)
Blind we are, if creation of this clone army we could not see. (Quote by - Yoda)
One of the frustrations or difficulties for us is a lot of what we do is intangible and goes back to our founding premise of blinded veterans assisting blinded veterans. (Quote by - Tom Miller)
Let's not blindly presume in a knee-jerk reaction that small is always better and that designer boutique is better. In a rush to appear that the mayor is pushing ahead with reform, the kids are being left in the dust, and we're not sure if any of these experiments are working. (Quote by - Jackie Leavy)
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. (Quote by - John Adair)
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. (Quote by - Contributed by: Andy James)
And whoever is blind in this, he shall (also) be blind in the hereafter; and more erring from the way. (Quote by - quran)
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see. (Quote by - Jose Saramago)
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
An eye for an eye and everyone shall be blind. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
Unless I'm blind, that's right down the middle. He missed a pitch. (Quote by - David Wells)
When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward. (Quote by - Swedish Proverb)
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
I believe there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those doing the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I dont think it will be based on the colour of the skinYou're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. (Quote by - Malcom X)
Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first. (Quote by - Ricardo Montalban)
It is well known that a one-eyed man can rule among the blind. (Quote by - Gerard Didier Erasmus)
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
When I hear of an equity in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there. (Quote by - Charles Bowen)
When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
I met Dave on a blind date at Sebring. Our first date was at the 'Wild Turkey' race. We met and got married in 2000. (Quote by - Terri Popielarz)
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see. (Quote by - F Scott Fitzgerald)
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin. (Quote by - Archibald Alexander)
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. (Quote by - Mahatma Ghandi)
Love comes from blindness; friendship from knowledge. (Quote by - Comte DeBussy-Rabutin)
The fact that we love each other, the fact that we are blind and we share a passion for music and a profession means that we are always together. (Quote by - Amadou Bagayoko)
He wanders about as if he's sighted. People ask us, 'Is he blind?' We say, no, he just doesn't have any eyes. (Quote by - Connie Maute)
Opinion governs all mankind, like the blind's leading of the blind. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. (Quote by - Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. (Quote by - Bible)
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed. (Quote by - A J Liebling)
Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
God, make me blind so i can never see her face again..God, make me deaf so i can never hear her voice again..but God, dont make me be unable to feel love because if i had to stop loving her..i would have no one to live for. (Quote by - jordan peters)
The doctors believe she's blind but don't know if they can correct that. (Quote by - Barbara Matthews)
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
He paints for the blind, and we are the blind, and he lets us see for sure what we saw long ago but weren't sure we saw. He paints for the dead, to remind us that - great good God, think of it - we're alive .. (Quote by - William Saroyan)
An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind. (Quote by - Mahatma Ghandi)
He was asked the question (about HCA stock) frequently, .. The main point was, 'I put it into a blind trust and therefore I've ceded responsibility to the trustee.' .. He was trying to explain to people what exactly happened when he put his assets into blind trusts. Once you put them into the trust, he didn't have any information as to the day-to-day disposition of those assets. (Quote by - Bob Stevenson)
Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There's a growing need for those who are not yet legally blind but are having difficulty with every day sight. There are at least four times as many people who are not legally blind for everyone person who is. (Quote by - Carolyn Messier)
Why does the blind man's wife paint herself. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind. (Quote by - Linda Eastman Mccartney)
Those without wisdom can see as well as a blind man those without wisdom think as much as a madman. (Quote by - Brandon William Peter Luisi)
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind. (Quote by - Della Reese)
The Pied Piper enjoyed people enjoying themselves. He was colorblind and race-blind and religion-blind. (Quote by - Hank Greenberg)
Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident. (Quote by - Titus Livius)
And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? / His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: / But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. (Quote by - Bible)
For the ''superior morality',' of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this ''superior morality'' is properly rather an ''inferior criminality',' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous. (Quote by - Bill Frist)
I completely got blind sided, .. It didn't make sense to me. I left the game like 'How did that happen?' . (Quote by - Rene Syler)
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
How can I tolerate the slightest inconvenience to them, the women, the children, the sick, the aged, the blind, the decrepit, that come for counsel, consolation, courage and cure?. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
This cartoon crisis reveals a blind spot which we have not really seen before and sends a bad message to the Muslim community about democracy at a time when we are trying to advocate to the moderate community that Islam and democracy go together. (Quote by - Dino Patti Djalal)
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. (Quote by - Richard Dawkins)
People shouldn't be afraid to talk to her. She loves talking to people. Just because someone is in a wheelchair, blind or whatever doesn't mean they aren't like me and you. (Quote by - Tammy Barden)
Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie. Sometimes black humor is the only kind we can summon, but even dark laughter can sustain. (Quote by - Dean Koontz)
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. (Quote by - Marston Bates)
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. (Quote by - Theodor Adorno)
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. (Quote by - Bible)
I don't expect anyone to have blind faith in this plan. (Quote by - Christopher Calisi)
They were like, 'Why was a double on the race course?' and we said, 'We're blind,'. (Quote by - Claire Gilbert)
If you think about it, it's kind of a compliment. Usually the best guy protects the blind side of the quarterback, so I just take it as a challenge and a way to better help the team. It's going to be good for me. I'm just learning different techniques. (Quote by - Jammal Brown)
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then. (Quote by - Contributed by: Andy James)
Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
Faith.. Must be enforced by reason..When faith becomes blind it dies. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. (Quote by - Madeleine L'Engle)
Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date. (Quote by - Cilla Black)
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. (Quote by - John Milton)
Each and every single time you look in the mirror ,you look at yourself.He who does not get bored ,is blind. (Quote by - nibus sjmch)
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation. (Quote by - Bill Clinton)
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
He has blinding hand speed and great dexterity. He can punch going forwards and backwards which is the mark of a true champion. There's no one like him in the world today. (Quote by - Don King)
Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military. (Quote by - James Patterson)
It is well known, that among the blind the one-eyed man is king. (Quote by - Gerard Didier Erasmus)
About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury. (Quote by - Ernie Pyle)
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
That lack of sharpness is never more exposed than by a pace attack such as the blindingly quick one England have deployed. (Quote by - Dennis Lillee)
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know. (Quote by - Amy Lowell)
If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit. (Quote by - Bible)
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. (Quote by - H G Wells)
This indictment of Christianity I will write on all walls, wherever there are walls - I have letters to make even the blind see. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the lame shall not come into the house. (Quote by - Bible)
No one else can bring this overwhelming advantage, .. We can see and know where the enemy is and they cannot see and know where we are. They are fighting blind. (Quote by - Don Shepperd)
IT workers at some companies have learned that blind people can compete. But lots of others have never worked with a blind person before, and attitude-related barriers apply. (Quote by - Curtis Chong)
We expect 24 blind and disabled golfers. This will make us the second largest blind golf event in the nation. (Quote by - Howard Shaw)
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. (Quote by - Tom Lehrer)
It is more a case of us giving the goals away than a product of our opponents play, .. We need to organize better, but let's also not be blind to the fact we are up against good opposition. (Quote by - Claude Makelele)
Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible. (Quote by - Russell Hoban)
We go bowling, which is interesting because my Compeer is blind. He's blind and he beats me at bowling. It's sort of embarrassing. (Quote by - Steve Kolter)
All authors to their own defects are blind. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly. (Quote by - Democritus)
Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us. (Quote by - Thomas Otway)
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!. (Quote by - James Thurber)
Blind is the man who thinks he knows it all. Blinder is the man who follows after this man blindly. (Quote by - Travis J Hedrick)
We were on the same bill as this other blind group, Jackson Harmony, from Mississippi, .. Well, the promoter decided to bill it as 'the blind boys of Alabama against the blind boys of Mississippi.' The crowd loved us, the name stuck, and things took off for us. (Quote by - Clarence Fountain)
When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us. But I don't see most of them here with us. They know we exist when they need to be elected, but after the election they become blind and deaf when it comes to our problems. .. We demand the government to use its power, as one of the greatest nations in the world, to end police brutality, to end racial profiling. (Quote by - Abner Louima)
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. (Quote by - Alfred Jarry)
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. (Quote by - Alex Karras)
There were men missing legs and others had lost an arm in Iraq. There were young men who had been blinded, .. I could only think to ask them, 'Are you happy to be home?'. (Quote by - Benjamin Bratt)
This is another blind turn. There are a lot of blind turns on this track, especially when your eyeballs are only 25 inches off the ground!. (Quote by - Leighton Reese)
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. (Quote by - Gerard Didier Erasmus)
I consider him to be one of the 21st-century prophets, along with people like Bill Gates, who is at the forefront of bringing real medical relief to the world's poor. We seek to model Jesus in Matthew 11:5, where he said, 'The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk.' We seek to help those afflicted with crippling diseases, like Rick Warren is doing with his AIDS project. The church must act. (Quote by - Don Stephens)
Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. (Quote by - Paul Begala)
Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals. (Quote by - Andrew Denton)
Cruise passengers can be blinded to the very real perils of the sea by ship operators unwilling to interrupt the party for security warnings. And after an incident occurs, a thorough investigation can be profoundly difficult when the crime scene literally floats away, on schedule, to its next port of call. (Quote by - Christopher Shays)
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, / then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem. (Quote by - John Jay Chapman)
Pay and the story rolls, .. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy. (Quote by - Stephen King)
A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Faux Wood blinds represent nearly 50% of our revenue, so we were set up to take a big hit if we were forced to increase our prices. Our decision was to absorb most of the raw material increase, which would keep prices stable for our customers. Not too many of our competitors have the volume to make the same decision. (Quote by - Chris Blair)
I wish all Americans were as blind as you. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
If you were lucky, you could delegate that kind of work away. But if not, and you couldn't get at the underlying text of what you wanted to do, you were out of luck. And that was the frustration many blind people ran into. Then the only way a blind person could do the work was to hire a sighted person as a reader to help run the machine. (Quote by - Curtis Chong)
Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I can't resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD's servant? / Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not. (Quote by - Bible)
Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. (Quote by - Douglas Adams)
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all. (Quote by - Ernst Toller)
At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism. (Quote by - Lakhdar Brahimi)
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into / matrimony. (Quote by - George Farquhar)
I'm concerned that people don't take her passing as an opportunity to further antique the causes that she and her husband and others stood for. Anybody who thinks that work is over is either terribly ignorant or willfully blind. (Quote by - Theodore M. Shaw)
love is blind. thank god i can see my girl friend. (Quote by - arvind jagtap.)
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. (Quote by - Sol LeWitt)
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. (Quote by - Imannuel Kant)
The Constitution is both color blind and color conscious. To avoid conflict with the equal protection clause, a classification that denies a benefit, causes harm, or imposes a burden must not be based on race. In that sense the Constitution is color blind. (Quote by - John Minor Wisdom)
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. (Quote by - Meryl Streep)
We advise consumers to make sure they use a licensed, reputable escrow service and never blindly accept an escrow service proposed by a buyer. We also recommend that consumers use extreme caution when dealing with buyers or sellers who claim to do business overseas, as this is a high indicator of fraudulent activity. (Quote by - Chris Long)
It is shocking that every 5 seconds one person goes blind and a child goes blind every minute. World Sight Day is supported by organisations around the world who are all working in partnership to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. Action for Blind People recognises the importance in supporting this special day. (Quote by - Joanna Hall)
Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control. (Quote by - Eric Sykes)
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. (Quote by - Rodney Dangerfield)
Love may be blind but not the lovers,for i didnt know that i would be so beautiful in his eyes..... (Quote by - prabha)
Every blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. It just so happens that two hit me on the head tonight. (Quote by - Davis Drewiske)
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. (Quote by - Margaret Atwood)
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. (Quote by - R Buckminster Fuller)
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! / Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? / And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. (Quote by - Bible)
We have reduced thermostats and instructed the teachers to close the blinds at the end of the day in order to preserve as much heat as possible. We also have worked to reduce heat loss by working with Bill McMinn [manager of facilities] to install weather stripping around the doors and the buildings. (Quote by - Becky Coffey)
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone. (Quote by - Vint Cerf)
It was obvious. You'd have to be blind not to recognize it. I certainly didn't write scientific papers in high school. (Quote by - Robert McCord)
If my actions are blind to me when others react that reaction I take as blasphemy unjustly given and a mystery. (Quote by - Lonnie D. Hicks)
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
War is blind and peace unspoken. Love is blind and a kiss unspoken. Bless the blind, and Love the broken. (Quote by - Leif Ericsson Leo Veness)
And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? / Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. (Quote by - Bible)
He had to go through a very dark winter being blind, and go through that as a 12 year old. But he's had a great spring, a great summer and now in the fall, he's going to have a lot of fun. (Quote by - Chris Lucas)
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. (Quote by - Andrew Marvell)
Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going..still, to logic it is blind. (Quote by - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)
The death penalty is always wrong, but tying a blind 76-year-old man to a chair and injecting him with poison is grotesque. (Quote by - Terry Davis)
We at MTG see this as an opportunity to increase awareness of the capabilities of the blind and visually impaired and to reward financially the good works of the Wisconsin Council of the Blind. (Quote by - John Peterson)
What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind, .. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest. (Quote by - Kathleen Clark)
In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
The Senate ethics rules are so weak that a senator is not required to set up a blind trust if there is a conflict of interest. (Quote by - Craig Holman)
Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. (Quote by - Bible)
For me and for John, it really kind of opened the minds of people from all over world to open their boathouses to people who are blind, .. I've gained so much (from rowing), I'd love to see people all over the world get the same pleasure and opportunity I had. (Quote by - Claire Gilbert)
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. (Quote by - Alexander Herzen)
Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!. (Quote by - Dolly Parton)
If we have our cops deaf, dumb and blind as to what the federal government knows in databases in Washington, how are we going to protect our society?. (Quote by - James Kallstrom)
I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live. (Quote by - Taslima Nasrin)
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
We are being held in a silent stuper.. blinded by the media. (Quote by - Belkis Galainena)
We were blind, so everybody was dark to us. (Quote by - Clarence Fountain)
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away. (Quote by - Christina G. Rossetti)
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. (Quote by - Lewis Mumford)
Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels. (Quote by - William Carlos Williams)
We just don't worry about it too much, .. It's like the old adage, 'you try to watch the stock market every day and you go blind.'. (Quote by - David Frail)
Men in the game are blind to what men looking on see clearly. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. (Quote by - Bruce Lee)
And they thought that there would be no affliction, so they became blind and deaf; then Allah turned to them mercifully, but many of them became blind and deaf; and Allah is well seeing what they do. (Quote by - quran)
Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. (Quote by - Andre Norton)
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. (Quote by - Sextus Propertius)
Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin. (Quote by - Sir Henry Maine)
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Blindness Hatred is blind, as well as love. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Michael and I met through music. We were fixed up on a blind date. . . . I was teaching in New York, and Michael [who plays piano] had finished medical school and was working in San Francisco. He flew in to meet me and proposed seven hours later. (Quote by - Deborah Charness)
If you're offering advice to your trustee, that's not a blind trust. (Quote by - Craig Holman)
I just got blind-sided. That was the biggest thing. Nobody really had an inclination of it shutting down. Everything looked to be in order. The timing was wrong and the way it was handled was wrong. You just pick the pieces up and you run with them. (Quote by - Ted Musgrave)
When her name is mentioned in the opera history books we will recall that vibrant, soaring tone-that and the blinding, high-beam-headlight smile that she flashed on her fans at each curtain call. (Quote by - Donal Henahan)
No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, 'Because He did, I can forgive you.''. (Quote by - Billy Graham)
We have a blind spot in this situation, a major national blind spot. (Quote by - Robert Bennett)
If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around..Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train. (Quote by - James Allen)
Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality..I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'. (Quote by - Tommy Cooper)
To all apparent Beauties blind. Each Blemish strikes an envious Mind. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Blinded patriotism is the most sincere threat to liberty. (Quote by - Matthew James)
I told her her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything. (Quote by - Whoopi Goldberg)
Daddy is reading shakespeare sonnets to the blind and mummy's playing shakespeare to the lepers. (Quote by - Anne Cason)
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes. (Quote by - Harry Emerson Fosdick)
In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?. (Quote by - Will Harvey)
It is by no means enough that an officer be capable..He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined, manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor.. No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate. (Quote by - John Paul Jones)
It's been the blind leading the blind because this is the first time I had touched radio dials. (Quote by - Julie Cordova)
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
More and more people are buying bigger and bigger, .. and the bigger the vehicle, the bigger the blind spot. (Quote by - Consumer Reports)
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness. (Quote by - Vachel Lindsay)
Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance. (Quote by - Chuck Klosterman)
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. (Quote by - James Graham)
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. (Quote by - Voltaire)
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. (Quote by - William Carlos Williams)
