Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Kahneman

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Chuck Palahniuk

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

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.

Alex Turner

Love's not only blind but deaf.

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.

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.

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.

Wu Bangguo

We may introduce useful regulation from western laws and should never blindly copy them.

I think we're being blinded by the blockbusters. Sports movies have been pretty consistent. It's not a hotbed of $100 million films, but it's a solid performing genre.

Barry Trotz

I thought our whole roster played well. That's how you win in this league. You need 20 guys to contribute. We played a real smart game in terms of puck management. We did a real solid job with the puck. We had no blind or hope passes. I think we managed the game well.

Bruce Fein

He will not be blunderbuss and say the president has carte blanche, ... On the other hand, he is not going to ignore national security. He will pay deference, but not blind deference.

He who sleeps with a blind man will wake up cross-eyed.

He has forgotten the Creator, his Lord and Master, and he does not meditate on Him, even for an instant. Says Nanak, in the third watch of the night, the blind and ignorant person gathers poison.

He Himself is True; Truth is pleasing to His Will. The spiritually blind are unripe and imperfect, inferior and worthless.

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.

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?

Brandon Boyd

If this is right, I'd rather be wrongIf this is sight, I'd rather be blind

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.

Meryl Streep

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Desiderius Erasmus

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king

Malcolm X

Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

Anushka Sharma

Just as you can't blindly follow fashion, you can't follow fitness, either.

Dick Durbin

the president's call for blind loyalty to his policies in Iraq.

When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek

Peter Beard

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

Craig Venter

When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it.

When we open otherwise blinded eyes,,,we then open an otherwise closed-mind

We've got a 16-year-old legally blind driver that has tested positive for marijuana. She ought to be indicted for injuring (Johnson).

Edie Falco

To some extent, she did. She knew who he was, and I think that was part of what excited her about him. She didn't know exactly what she was signing up for, maybe she didn't know how it would feel to be living this life. But she was not blind to what was going to be happening.