Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?'

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.

The Disney board has been notoriously insular, famously gullible and blindly loyal to Mr. Eisner.

Mason Cooley

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

The human community and wildlife and fisheries community should not have to be sacrificed for this blind rush toward some unknown future that could be a disaster.

Gene Mauch

The first guy who lays a hand on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

Frank Lloyd Wright

Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.

Madeleine L'Engle

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

John Dryden

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.

Louise Rennison

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

John Dryden

All authors to their own defects are blind.

Michael Freeman

You can't stop people from innovating, and I don't see that our screen readers will be able to keep up with that. I still think it's worthwhile for a blind person to try a career as a programmer, but I do fear how well that person will do in the long term.

You can pile all the evidence you want on the premier about whether or not private delivery of health care is a good way to go. His ideology and his personal values may in fact be blinding him to any evidence that might be provided to the contrary.

Charles Ray

You can't always see strokes and blindness or kidney, nerve and heart disease, ... But it's there. Research shows that frequent glucose testing reduces your chances of suffering from any of those complications.

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.

There's this halo, sacrosanct idea of gene therapy, that no one could be involved unless they're completely trustworthy, that maybe left more blinders on than in other areas.

Leonard Orr

Sometimes even in the metaphysical schools people just get blinders on like fundamental orthodoxy only in metaphysical dressings, and it's as rigid as anything else. So for a spiritual community of any kind to stay open is a tremendous virtue.

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.

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.

The drug industry dispensed $30 million in campaign contributions during the last election -- including $1 million to George W. Bush's campaign. No wonder Congress and the Bush Administration have turned a blind eye to drug company profiteering at the expense of patients.

The foolish, blind clown does not serve the True Guru. In love with duality, he endures terrible suffering, and burning, he cries out in pain.

The court has spoken plainly that ignorance is no defense for flea markets which profit by turning a blind eye to piracy.

Robert M. Pirsig

Familiarity can blind too.

Robert E. Howard

I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.

Zora Neale Hurston

You heard me. You ain't blind.

Wyndham Lewis

The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.