Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Williams

We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.

Ralph Hodgson

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.

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

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

It's interesting to hear Mr. Sutherland say that safety is not a systemic problem, when it most certainly is. They have continued to have a blind spot toward safety and maintenance.

Mark Wright

It was a big injustice. We've missed a number of chances and the goalkeeper's made some blinding saves.

Every blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. It just so happens that two hit me on the head tonight.

That's the all-time example of a blind ground hog finding an acorn.

Fred Funk

That made it pretty neat, but it gave a lot of blind holes and shots that you didn't really have much control over, ... And with the firmness of the course, it made it that much more difficult.

Cassandra Clare

I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

In all honesty, I should not have been so blind to this, this so-called holiday.

Joe Moore

I like him. It's just that he has this blind spot when it comes to corruption. I don't think he ever realizes the seriousness of it.

Bud Selig

I'm proud of what we've done over the last even or eight years. I find the revisionist history that has gone on in some places to be remarkable. The idea that we turned a blind eye is just not supported by fact.

I love the game of basketball. But narcotics just tore me down. I was too blind to see that. I was too high to see that.

Billy Joel

I know I'm searching for something Something so undefined That it can only be seen By the eyes of the blind In the middle of the night.

I love it. You can get killed on that play. It's just blind faith, and I have faith in my blockers.

Dom Capers

I have no doubt that this team's going to hang in and keep fighting. They're disappointed and frustrated, but they have to put blinders on and prepare for the next challenge.

Helene Cixous

The natural characters in the drama are not supposed to be philosophical, nor are they people with any refined kind of knowledge. They may be particularly blind or they may be suffering from the heaviness of the law, exactly as people have been suffering for 5000 years.

It's not a blind trust. I think that's a complete misnomer, an inaccurate or at least a misleading term.

A lot of the national environmental groups have a huge blind spot on this. They think natural gas is a clean fuel. They don't look at the impacts of extraction. Also, the national groups tend to focus on public lands, and they think private lands are sacrificial.

Lord Chesterfield

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; ""they will both fall into the ditch

It saved us from going down a number of blind alleys.

Neil Peart

It's a test of ultimate willThe heartbreak climb uphillGot to pick up the paceIf you want to stay in the raceMore than just blind ambitionMore than just simple greedMore than just a finish lineMust feed this burning need

Harry Kemp

I pitied him in his blindness But can I boast, "I see?" Perhaps there walks a spirit Close by, who pities me

But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

Eric Bogle

But in here in this graveyard that is still no man's land The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man's blind indifference to his fellow man To a whole generation that was butchered and damned

Jawaharlal Nehru

The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of it. Almost always it seemed to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition, exploitation and the preservation of vested interests.

Evelyn Waugh

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

If you were lucky, you could delegate that kind of work away. But if not, and you couldn't get at the underlying text of what you wanted to do, you were out of luck. And that was the frustration many blind people ran into. Then the only way a blind person could do the work was to hire a sighted person as a reader to help run the machine.

John Cornyn

I just think it was a blind spot in the process of BRAC, but now maybe these developments, showing how in response to disaster, a natural disaster like Rita and Katrina, that it has an important role to play. Maybe this will help us make our case.

I just don't think it's a big deal, ... There certainly isn't any evidence linking Viagra with these reports. There is a risk with this form of blindness from diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and those are also risks for erectile dysfunction or impotence, which is also why people take Viagra.

Larry Foote

I've never seen anything like it. I'm not going to say it was a miracle because that's crippled people getting up and walking, the blind seeing. But that's the closest thing to it I've ever seen.

Colin Edwards

I've never really done that great there but I enjoy the place. There's a couple of tricky parts, you've got to get a couple of sections right to get the lap time, like the fast downhill left at turn five, you've got to carry a lot of speed through there, then the same through the blind stuff after the hairpin (turn nine). If you get those sections right you can get a good lap time going.