Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Young

refused to recognize that in the last 20 years the quarterback position has become blind to color.

People have become blind having lost the two eyes called faith; just because one cannot see, is God not present? May be, not for some but for others He is (present).

People just wouldn't take those blinders off long enough to really look at all the evidence that was there.

Others have been more willing to take risks. Some say Exxon is actually being blind and missing out on huge opportunities for growth.

Nancy Pelosi

Republicans are blinded by their culture of cronyism and corruption, ... They're crumbling, arrogantly protecting their power.

Bronson Arroyo

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.

I think they turned a blind eye to that one. Colin Campbell's not doing his job.

It is being blind to history not to recognize that the criminal justice system has been trained on the African-American community to try to control it, contain it, to break its spirit.

Korea has a long history of turning a blind eye to corporate crime.

Bill Belichick

That's a tough position to play. It's a lot like playing corner. You're put there on an island. It's not all that easy to give a left tackle help. A lot of times you can't give him help . . . To play out there, on the blind side of the quarterback, and still be physical in the running game, it's a tough spot to play.

It is one thing to turn a blind eye to the Chinese government's abuses and it is quite another thing to collaborate.

It is impossible to imagine that humanity has suddenly become blind and has really lost the consciousness of a mortal danger.

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.

George Bernard Shaw

I wish all Americans were as blind as you.

I was the second blind person on Vail the way everybody's talking.

I still love Ken, ... He really means well. He put all his shots in the golf course project. It kind of blinded him.

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.

It defies logic to require blind students to take this course.

Nick Hardwick

I'd kind of go in blind and be fine in college, ... But now I've got to know what's going on ---- my opponent's every move and being able to see what the defense is going to do before it's going to happen. But that just happens through film study.

I don't know that you can realistically blind

William Butler Yeats

I am content to live it all againAnd yet again, if it be life to pitchInto the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch,A blind man battering blind men.

Mark Twain

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read

Mark Twain

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see

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.

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.

Chiang Kai-shek

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.

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.

Barack Obama

I think that given how closely divided the court is and given the magnitude of some of the decisions that will probably be coming down during the course of his tenure on the court that I will be flying blind a little bit. There's no way to tell how his judgments will come down on some of these critical issues.

If all humans were blind they'd find racism in pitch.

I don't think we should turn a blind eye to these important issues just because we are dealing with the nuclear issue.

Thomas Carlyle

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.

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

Sathya Baba

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.