Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucas Till

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

The one thing you never say to a blind person is, 'Did you see that?'

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.

Wu Bangguo

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

Willie Brown

He was saying I was blind and that there was nobody to take care of me and that I couldn't live here anymore.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

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.

Steve Young

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

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

I saw it. You had to be blind not to see it.

Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Richard Wiseman

Over the last five years, there's been a reawakening as we look at things like change blindness (a failure to see large changes in a visual scene) and at the fact that consciousness is a construction and may even be an illusion. Now there's a recognition that magicians are doing something very special.

My parents had two blind dogs, and they did fine. I have a three-legged cat at home that had been hit by a car.

Reggie Bush

My pastor at church told me that what's going on now is similar to a horse race. The horses come out of the gate with blinders on. The reason they do this is so they don't get distracted. Well, that's how I am with this. I'm focused on what is ahead.

Livingstone has a blind spot when it comes to relations with the Jewish community. He has an antipathy, an antagonism, a personal dislike for the Jewish community.

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.