Blind Quotes - Page 17

• I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.

  Nicole Kidman

  Smile, Believe, Thinking

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Two

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.50, Open Road Media

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• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Humor, Men, Creating

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3839, Delphi Classics

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• All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

  Livy

  Men, Haste, Doe

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXII, section 39,

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• I thought Daredevil was kind of cool because he couldn't do anything. I mean, he's blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic.

  Frank Miller

  Mean, Men, Catholic

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• The newspapers turn a blind eye to how they get their material as long as they have great photographs.

  Sienna Miller

  Eye, Long, Photograph

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• When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Swimming, Sea, Important

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• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Elderly, Law

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• God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Europe, Blind Spots, Intellectual

  "Falling birth rate is killing Europe, says chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2009.

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• I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.

  Charlie Sheen

  Night, Train Wrecks, Lasts

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• I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Believe, Optimistic, Optimism

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• My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

  Tom Waits

  Reality, Men, Imagination

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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• I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

  J. C. Watts

  Reality, Skin Color, America

  "Live Chat: Congressman J.C. Watts". The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

  J. C. Watts

  Character, Thinking, Color

  "Live Chat: Congressman J.C. Watts". The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was over. You just don't correct somebody's grammar. That's just not okay. I'm from Tennessee, so I probably say everything wrong. I might have said ain't, or something like that.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Over You, Tennessee, Might

  "Reese Witherspoon Dishes on Her Worst Blind Date". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.seventeen.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

  Stevie Wonder

  Funny, Black, Disadvantages

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.

  Stevie Wonder

  Mean, Knows

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 17, 2010.

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• When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

  Stevie Wonder

  Girl, Children, Fun

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2004.

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• Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

  Julian Baggini

  Philosophy, Acceptance, Argument

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• 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.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Secret, Information, Catastrophe

  "Is Conflict Good For Progress?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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• Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Acceptance, Dark, Love Is

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• A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul. Q: It always happens? A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind. Q: Instead of watching out? A: Instead of always watching out.

  Mary Zimmerman

  Dark, Finding Love, Soul

  Mary Zimmerman, David R. Slavitt (2002). “Metamorphoses: A Play”, p.76, Northwestern University Press

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• Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...

  Philip Pullman

  Fate, Forever, Feelings

  "Northern Lights/The Golden Compass". Book by Philip Pullman, 1995.

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