Blind Quotes - Page 9

• A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.

  Anthony de Mello

  Religious, Taken, Eye

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 134), 1992.

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• Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Believe, Men, Blind Spots

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• A woman was taking a shower. There is a knock on the door. Who is it? Blind man! The woman opens the door. Where do you want these blinds, lady?

  Henny Youngman

  Men, Doors, Want

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• So may I, blind fortune leading me,
  Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
  And die with grieving.

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Missing, Risk

  William Shakespeare (1733). “The works of Shakespeare in seven volumes”, p.20

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• Sure, I've gotten old. I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees... I've fought prostate cancer and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, and take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. I have bouts with dementia, poor circulation, hardly feel my hands or feet anymore, can't remember if I'm 85 or 92, but... thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!

  Red Buttons

  Cancer, Feet, Florida

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• What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Sorry, Thinking, Dating

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• Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.

  Horace Walpole

  Eye, Ignorance, Two

  Horace Walpole (1963). “Horace Walpole: Memoirs and Portraits”

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• The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.

  Andre Breton

  Photography, Writing, Artist

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• It was Stieglitz's endeavor... to translate the unseen world of tactile values as they develop between lovers not merely into the sexual act but the entire relation of two personalities - to translate this world of blind touch into sight.

  Lewis Mumford

  Sight, Two, Personality

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• If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.

  Demetri Martin

  Blindfolds, Ifs

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• Well with girls I don't get no respect. I had a blind date. I waited two hours on the corner. A girl walked by. I said Are you Louise? She said, Are you Rodney? I said, Yeah. She said, I'm not Louise.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Girl, Two, No Respect

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• But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?

  Merle Shain

  Eye, Men, Sight

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• I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant.

  Dane Cook

  Hate, Block, White

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• I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know, being involved in a lot of liberal causes and being involved very militantly, Hollywood is, in fact, guilty of helping to addict people to smoke.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Eye, Thinking, People

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Materialism, Source

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Lieutenant Governor Paterson - blind, black guy - gets sworn in. First thing he says is, 'By the way, cheated on my wife. Let's just get that out in the open right now.' He didn't need to admit that. He's blind. Could have said it was an accident.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Wife, Guy, Black

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• I let a friend set me up on a blind date. It was a disaster. She ended up being a burn victim. By the end of the night.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Night, Dating, Victim

  Twitter post from Apr 15, 2010

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• My friends are trying to get me to go out on blind dates. Big 'NO' to that because all my friends are a bunch of lying geeks. They're always like, 'Brian, you're really gonna dig this girl. She's got Traci Lords' eyes, Michelle Pfeiffer's nose, Kim Basinger's lips.' Yeah, they always forget to tell me she's also got Charlie Brown's head.

  Brian Posehn

  Girl, Lying, Eye

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will probably end up dating the best looking blind chick.

  Dana Gould

  Men, Land, Dating

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• How do blind people know when they're done wiping their ass?

  Robert Schimmel

  People, Done, Ass

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• Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you must go and sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody... it is never too small, for this is our love of Christ in action

  Mother Teresa

  Flower, Writing, Men

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• A man without the Holy Ghost is a blind man. He may not know it but that's what blindness is all about. A blind man is not just someone who cannot see, he can see alright, but all he sees is darkness. It's the same thing in the realm of the spirit. A blind man in the realm of the spirit is one who doesn't know the things of the spirit, he can't see the things of the Spirit of God. But when the Holy Spirit comes into your life, you will no longer be blind because He will cause you to see what others can't see.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Men, Darkness, May

  Chris Oyakhilome PhD. (2014). “Seven Things The Holy Spirit Will Do For You”, p.22, LoveWorld Publishing

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• More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Opportunity, Decision, Thieves

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

  Akiane Kramarik

  Past, Deaf, Mute

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• I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on unless you acknowledge our right to self government. We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Fighting, Night

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