Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Boyd

There are many ways to experience love. It can feel like a knife in your back, or it can feel like you're being lifted up by winged creatures towards a beautiful blinding light.

Aaron Swartz

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

C. J. Mahaney

Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.

Damien Chazelle

I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.

Rosemary Mahoney

To me, the remarkable thing is it's pretty much unanimous the way blind people have been perceived in all cultures and for millennia. The first is, if they can't see, they must be stupid. The second one is, and this is a very old one, that blindness is such a terrible thing that it must be a curse from God for some evil that you committed.

Walter Murch

Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

Craig Venter

The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.

Though they, blinded by greed, do not see evil in the destruction of the family, or sin in being treacherous to friends.

Ellen Key

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?

Adam Phillips

Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling and/or unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.

David Foster

Blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.

Aldo Leopold

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

Tom Brokaw

We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare,/ Stood stupefied, however he came there: / Thrust out past service from the devil's stud!

Mark Grace

Of 25 players on a roster, about six or seven of them use bookies, or whatever. That's just the way it is. If you say no, then you're turning a blind eye.

Lori Wilde

My husband is the romantic one in our relationship. He's always doing sweet things for me. Each year, we recreate our first date - it was a blind date, and we met at the zoo, followed by a trip to the museum. I'd have to say that's my favorite romantic date.

Bush wants Davis because Davis is sort of one of those blind automatons. That's not who Ken Lucas is, that's not what the district wants.

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.

O Baba, the splendor of Maya is deceptive. The blind man has forgotten the Name; he is in limbo, neither here nor there.

Never let a sense of what is right blind you to what is true.

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.

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.

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.

C. S. Lewis

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

Alain Badiou

Without mathematics, we are blind.

Aristophanes

Do not take a blind guide.

You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself.