Blind Quotes

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand.

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.

Some cats are blind and stone deafdeaf some. But ain't no cat wuz ever dumb.

Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.

Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend's truck.

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it.

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.

Love is so blind, it feels right when it's wrong.

If you search for truthfulness, you might as well be blind.

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

Of course I can see you. I'm not blind, you know. Oh, but you are. You just don't know it.

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

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

You have to admit he's good looking," Bree pressed, leaning against my kitchen counter. "Of course I admit it. I'm not blind," I said, busily opening cans.

I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.

All people have their blind side-their superstitions.

What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

Therefore, the only way Donald Trump can protect himself is to set up a blind trust or to divest in these holdings. It's the only way.

Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.

Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost!

Truly God was good, to make man so blind.

Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy. Whilst thus I sing, I am a king, Although a poor blind boy!

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.

The blind see what they want to see.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

Love was not only blind, it often careened into Blithering Idiotsville as well.

He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.