Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Herbert

The blind eate many a flie. [The blind eat many a fly.]

Cars have blind spots but not like trucks, especially when you're loaded,

Hunter S. Thompson

Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.

Horace Mann

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Peter Cohan

If he was really serious about being independent, he would have had a real blind trust -- instead of a seeing-eye-dog trust.

How many blind people do you need to testify? I don't mean to be grotesque, but that is what it is about. It is a parade of people who have serious injuries. Every family suffered from all of this and we all know it.

Rene Syler

I completely got blind sided, ... It didn't make sense to me. I left the game like 'How did that happen?'

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.

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

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.

It's a blind draw, it's just one of those deals. If both guys win two matches, they'll hook up. But both of them have a lot of work to do before that.

The world is blind and ignorant, in the love of duality, it engages in actions.

Madeleine L'Engle

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Peter Farrelly

You know, I'm not sure I ever even had a blind date!

John Dryden

All authors to their own defects are blind.

John Dryden

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

Ovid

What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.

Marisa Tomei

Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.

Michael Crichton

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

Charles Lamb

All people have their blind side - their superstitions; and I have heard her declare, under the rose, that hearts were her favourite suit.

Ronnie Milsap

About 20 to 30 years ago, you exclusively got exposure from the radio, ... These are some pretty interesting times to be around. I was very close friends with Ray Charles. We had a common love of technology in making records, and compared notes on how it was done. I wanted to be involved as a blind person, with Braille and synthetic speech. You do what your heart tells you to do.

A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is blind

Joe Clark

A blind person using a screen reader must experience the links one after another, which is rather inconvenient. They've got better things to do.

A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass

Neil Gaiman

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

Pablo Neruda

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

Mason Cooley

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

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.

Harry Kemp

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