Blind Quotes - Page 26

• They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear - a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hurt, Wall, Pain

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• I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Church, Lame, Way

  Flannery O'Connor (1983). “Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge”, Signet Classics

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• The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives.

  Annie Dillard

  Running, Trying, Nowhere To Turn

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• I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.

  Mary Balogh

  Believe, Fate, Giving

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.237, Delacorte Press

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• There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go?

  Cassandra Clare

  Blind Rage, Aftermath, Shouting

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• An eye for an eye....we are all blind

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Eye, Eye For An Eye

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• Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

  Octavia Butler

  Ignorance, Quails, Irrational

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.244, Open Road Media

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• Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Dark, Thinking

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• Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

  Peter Singer

  Empathy, Suffering, Emotion

  "Writings on an Ethical Life". Book by Peter Singer, November 21, 2000.

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• They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces.

  Richard Wright

  Hate, Play, Feelings

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works”

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• My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Science, Technology

  "I am Neil deGrasse Tyson -- AMA". www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.

  Michael Chabon

  Stars, Lying, Writing

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• Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,-- Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.

  Sara Teasdale

  Love You, Done, Faults

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• ‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it

  Max Lucado

  Love You, Winning, Loser

  Max Lucado (2009). “3:16: The Numbers of Hope”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, 'Why don't you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?' And I always say, well, when you say that, you've also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that's got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate.

  David Attenborough

  Atheist, Believe, Butterfly

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• Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

  Carlos Castaneda

  Tired, Mindfulness, Deaf And Blind

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• But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label the dissenters of authoritarianism as unpatriotic or uncaring. Patriotism is more closely linked to dissent than it is to conformity and a blind desire for safety and security. Understanding the magnificent rewards of a free society makes us unbashful in its promotion, fully realizing that maximum wealth is created and the greatest chance for peace comes from a society respectful of individual liberty.

  Ron Paul

  Safety, Understanding, Desire

  Congressional Record, Volume 153, pt. 10, 2010.

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• Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

  Isaac Newton

  Ideas, Diversity, Atheism

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  World, Natural, Believer

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• Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Artist, Media, Color

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Darkness, Too Much

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

  Shane Koyczan

  Beautiful, Sight, Giving

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• Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

  Karl Barth

  Prayer, Would Be, Study

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• The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again. The one who wanted her baby back lost chance of having one again, And the one who had a vision to see his country change became blind.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Country, Baby, Brother

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• Love is blind,” Harriet quipped. “But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.

  Julia Quinn

  Love Is, Love Is Blind, Illiterate

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