Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

It's such a silly situation; we turn a blind eye from an economic standpoint. These folks are a viable part of our economy, except when the police pull them over. Then they're subject to the full weight of the law.

Every one of us has a personality blind spot when it comes to money.

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.

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.

Jacques Roumain

Experience is the cane of the blind.

Jacqueline Susann

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

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.

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!

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.

Brendan Hansen

I walked away from 2004 knowing I didn't swim my own race. This time, I didn't look around and panic. I kept my blinders on. . . . Overall, it went really well. The Texas guys started swimming fast and then everyone did.

Cassandra Clare

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

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse.

Right now the side blinders are on and we can't worry about everybody else. If we just win our three remaining (matches), we have a really good shot at making the playoffs. We're fighting for our lives now.

Rather than blindly insisting there is zero error in fingerprint matching, we should acknowledge the obvious, study the errors openly and find constructive ways to prevent faulty evidence from being used to convict innocent people.

The musicians are in these 8-foot-by-8-foot boxes with kind of a 70-percent screen on them, and they are covered on all four sides with lights inside of the boxes. You can only see them if they light up from the inside. Sometimes there are video projections on the boxes, so you don't see the whole show and you are totally relying on your ears. I use headphones more on this tour than I ever have because I can't see exactly what they are playing. I've never had to mix blind like that. They'll start off visible, then the lighting changes and they can't see each other either. They are playing strictly off of trust and vibe.

A deliberate blind eye has been turned here and culpable neglect is what the prime minister here is guilty of. He cannot wash his hands like Pontius Pilate and say it was somebody else's responsibility.

Thomas Hardy

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