Blind Quotes - Page 16

• Most people think visual information is more important than aural information - like, what's this big deal about sound? And why should I bother to listen, rather than look? And here are the facts: there are blind species, in the backs of the caves, the bottoms of the oceans. It's not essential on planet Earth to be able to see, to be a species. But there are no deaf animal species. You have to be able to hear, or you won't get the information you need in order to survive.

  Gordon Hempton

  Ocean, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I don't feel that it helps to be pessimistic. At some point in my life I made a conscious decision that I would try to be optimistic - not blind to anything at all - but to always hear the way that had the best chance for happiness.

  Louise Erdrich

  Optimistic, Optimism, Decision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind. That's too harsh, or too self-righteous: none of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

  Garth Greenwell

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision. I also like that more and more people are committing themselves to close captioning so the deaf can really know what's going on. I like the position of making buildings more accessible by having ramps and various ways people who are paraplegic to be able to get around.

  Stevie Wonder

  Technology, People, Vision

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.

  Unknown

  Eye, Love Is, One Line

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• In a sense, traditional business is design blind.

  Marty Neumeier

  Design

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.

  Amy Sillman

  Upside Down

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• In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

  Gerry Adams

  Struggle, Eye, Past

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

  Christina Aguilera

  Nerves, Auditions, Process

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• I'm blind without my glasses.

  Adam Ant

  Glasses

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• My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.

  Teresa of Avila

  Memories, Eye, Evil

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1962). “Life of Saint Teresa: Written by Herself”

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• People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Sports, Cycling, Leisure Activities

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• The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Blood, Sight, People

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• No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

  Albert Camus

  People, Suffering, Crowds

  Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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• Evolution is unobservable. It's based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to 'one side is all we will let you hear.'

  Ray Comfort

  Kids, Dry Bones, Issues

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• Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Flower, People

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Wrestling, Writing

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• I'm a person who likes to hang out. I would never go on a blind date. That sounds like the most uncomfortable thing on the planet earth. It's like, 'Hi. Nice to meet you. So, what kind of music do you like?' Date ended.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Nice, Sound, Goes On

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• I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blind.

  Nathan Fillion

  Blessing, Fantastic Life, Enjoy

  "King of the Castle". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. March 1, 2011.

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• My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

  Michael J. Fox

  People, Video, Whole Life

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• And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

  Newt Gingrich

  Native American, Thinking, Color

  "Newt Gingrich, Howard Dean Talk Race, Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2010.

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• What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

  Lady Gregory

  May, Week, Seven

  Lady Gregory (2012). “Three Wonder Plays”, p.21, tredition

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• I grew up with the Blind Boys' music. My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center. I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

  Ben Harper

  Boys, California, Kind

  "Give Till It’s Gone: A Conversation with Ben Harper". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.

  Chick Hearn

  Boys, Two, Talking

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• The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Eye, Men, Bending

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1888). “Prose-poems and Selections from the Writings and Sayings of Robert G. Ingersoll”

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