Quotes about blind
blind cause change civilization compares culture fate forces havoc human lies man natural nature power stands war within wrought
The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature? Ellen Key
blindness forces gifts greater largely recognize simply smell strictly
One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored. Rosemary Mahoney
blind blindness curse darkness god life past persistent spiritual
One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.
blind deaf hands touch understand
You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand Khalil Gibran
blind date stood
The blind date that has stood you up: your life. Randall Jarrell
blindness snow
You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.
blinders bottom bounce bring closer dropped dwell early learn together
You just bounce back. It's part of life; it's part of football. You learn and you go forward. You can't dwell on the past; you can't dwell on what's happened. You put the blinders on, bring it closer together and get back to work. It's too early (to think the bottom has dropped out). If we had that attitude, we'd go 0-16.
blind defies logic require students
It defies logic to require blind students to take this course.
blinds cia conspiracy guys house looking might shut strange theories
Manny is a strange guy. Outward, he's happy-go-lucky. On the inside, he's got a lot of conspiracy theories going on. Obviously, Manny might be one of those guys when he's 50 years old he might be in his house with all the blinds shut and looking out and the CIA is after him. You don't know, man. You don't know what's going on his head. Bronson Arroyo
blindly dead draft ends expected feeling point process walking
I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them. Hannah Kent
blind reason cures
Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse. William Shakespeare
blindness conceive cruelty fugitive hard independence patriotic people utter
It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law. Robert Green Ingersoll
blindly cast decision experience formula learn might similar talked works
The one thing you can take out of an experience like ('The Island') is, hopefully, some wisdom, ... We've talked about it conceptually, the decision to make the movie, how we cast the movie, how we've marketed the movie. There are things to learn on all fronts. But there's not just a formula that works every time. We will learn things from it, but we might go blindly into something similar in the future.
blindness fascinated
My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.
blind wish
I wish all Americans were as blind as you. George Bernard Shaw
blind second
I was the second blind person on Vail the way everybody's talking.
blinded course golf love means shots
I still love Ken, ... He really means well. He put all his shots in the golf course project. It kind of blinded him.
blind front happy jessica nine shots
I tell you what, I was real happy to see Jessica come back after that front nine. That back nine was tough. It has a lot of blind shots and a lot of trouble. So for her to come back with a 37 on that nine, that's great.
blind lives
We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. William Williams
blind eyes hill silent sky stared stars stood until
Without a wish, without a will, / I stood upon that silent hill / And stared into the sky until / My eyes were blind with stars and still / I stared into the sky. Ralph Hodgson
blind
We'll go in blind and, hopefully, won't show them too much respect. Chris Pronger
blinded evil sin though
Though they, blinded by greed, do not see evil in the destruction of the family, or sin in being treacherous to friends.
blind fallen fans less nfl players romans sympathy
NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.
blind family figure herself knew led outside people unhappy wild wildly
Because she was blind and deaf, no one in the family knew how to communicate with her at all. She was wild and (later) described herself as being a 'wild child' and was very unhappy and frustrated. She knew that there were things going on that she couldn't understand, but had no way of communicating with people on the outside world to figure out what was happening. The frustration led her to lash out wildly at the people around her.
blind broad china deepest faith ideas implicit respect sun whose
I have implicit faith in Sun Yat-sen, not because I am his blind follower, but because he really arouses the deepest respect in everybody. I do not know of another person in China who has such a broad and international outlook, whose ideas are so constructive, and who has such deep faith and confidence in his own mission. Chiang Kai-shek
blind brilliant education expect met people spot
I have met people who you would expect to be brilliant and they have a blind spot for this puzzle. And I have met people without as much education who do very well with it.
blind equality humans racism
If all humans were blind they'd find racism in pitch.
blind dealing eye issues nuclear turn
I don't think we should turn a blind eye to these important issues just because we are dealing with the nuclear issue.
blindness deny desire far greater hear love morality perfection produced properly public rather stronger
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. Thomas Carlyle
blind both bound call chains earth gold hands knowing life lift men nourish round sheep themselves within
For what are men better than sheep or goats/ That nourish a blind life within the brain,/ If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer/ Both for themselves and those who call them friend?/ For so the whole round earth is every way/ Bound by gold chains
blind call gives god heart names nor
God is omnipresent. He is the in-dweller of every heart and all names are His. You can call Him by any name that gives you joy. You must not cavil at other names and forms, nor become fanatics, blind to their glory. Sathya Baba
blind cannot crime deal eye goal happen juvenile toward turn
Juvenile crime does happen and we have to deal with it. Our goal is not to investigate 9-year-olds, but we cannot turn a blind eye toward it.
blind condemn event eyes facing historical seeing turning
We can look back on a historical event from 60 years ago and condemn that unreservedly. And yet we are not facing up to what we're seeing before our own eyes today. We're turning a blind eye to that and that's unacceptable.