Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Coleridge

The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

The mistake (in 1986) was being blind to the need for a continuing flow of workers into the economy.

This is another blind turn. There are a lot of blind turns on this track, especially when your eyeballs are only 25 inches off the ground!

Paul Cook

There will be a sea of change with the Internet. You'd have to be blind not to see it.

John Bolton

There were bribes; there were kickbacks; there was lax oversight from the Secretariat; and some member states turned a blind eye toward this corruption.

It's been the blind leading the blind because this is the first time I had touched radio dials.

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

Cassandra Clare

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

Jacques Roumain

Experience is the cane of the blind.

Jacqueline Susann

Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?

Frank Gehry

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

Ezra Taft Benson

Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations!

Even if you don't have direct responsibility for a company's financial statements, you cannot turn a blind eye when you have reason to know that what you are doing will help make those statements false and misleading,

Blind tasting is the only way to taste. If you are looking at the label, you might give the wine a break, or any defect could possibly be seen in a positive light.

Thomas Fuller

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.

Blind is the man who thinks he knows it all. Blinder is the man who follows after this man blindly.

Alfred Jarry

Blind and unwavering indiscipline at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

Thomas Hardy

So zestfully canst thou sing? / And all this indignity, / With God's consent, on thee! / Blinded ere yet a-wing.

Jimmy Carter

Thanks to our partners, we see the success of our work in the eyes of children who will never go blind and in the faces of parents who now have hope that their lives can improve. The outpouring of support underscores the interest people have in preventing unnecessary suffering for their neighbors.

Some weep and wail, separated from their Husband Lord, the blind ones do not know that their Husband is with them.

Sometimes you have got to be careful what you wish for. But the U.S. will just put its blinders on and pretend it doesn't get subsidies.

These data shatter the illusion of a fair distribution of per-pupil spending in California. We cannot continue to turn a blind eye to the glaring inequity in the distribution of teacher talent and teacher dollars.

The Senate ethics rules are so weak that a senator is not required to set up a blind trust if there is a conflict of interest.

Matthew Miller

Those tax cuts were directed largely to those who needed them the least. New Jersey wants a senator who will stand up to George Bush instead of blindly following him as he plunges the nation further into record debt.

What's difficult about cleaning blinds at home is that it's very messy.

We have a blind spot in this situation, a major national blind spot.

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.

You guys knew more than we did ... We were kind of blind to it. Once I saw the news is when it hit me, how lucky I was. I made it out ? I didn't lose a job, I didn't lose a family. It puts things so much in perspective.

Mariah Carey

When you love someone so deeply they become your life, it's easy to succumb overwhelming fears inside. Blindly I imagined I could keep you under a glass. Now I understand to hold you I must open my hand and watch you rise.

Richard Heber

What though the spicy breezes / Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, / Though every prospect pleases, / And only man is vile. In vain with lavish kindness / The gifts of God are strown, / The heathen in his blindness / Bows down to wood and stone.