Best 654 quotes in «blind quotes» category

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

On the value of blind shots to golf course design.

On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.

[On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

Patriotism is not necessarily defined as blind devotion to a president's particular agenda - and that to dispute a presidential policy is not necessarily anti-American.

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.

Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

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

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.

Ring the bells for the blind and deaf.

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

Selfishness is blind.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.

Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism.

The edge of the world is always the next step when you're blind.