Blind Quotes

Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
Alex Kapranos

Person, Trying, Impossible

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.
Steve Forbes

Silent, Labor, Eye

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
Alexander Herzen

Goal, Possible, Generation

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
Alfred Russel Wallace

Future, Done, Wealth

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.
Ricardo Montalban

Experience, Human, After

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
Omar Bongo

Life, Sacrifice, Dangerous

Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that.
Lily Collins

Past, Everything, Before

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
John Barton

Good, Knows, Reader

At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.
Lakhdar Brahimi

Stupid, Said, Fact

There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.
Bobby Heenan

Good, Nothing, Referee

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.
Piper Perabo

Turn, Coming, Prepare

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.
Helen Hunt Jackson

Human, Cannot, Found

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
George Grosz

Peace, Drunk, Joy

Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.'
Nigel Lythgoe

Show, Talent, Forgotten

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.
Azar Nafisi

Someone, Reality, Else

I will not go on a blind date.
Jordana Brewster

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.
Matthew Prior

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
Jack Vance

Computers, Writing, Hard

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.
Godfrey Reggio

Real, Person, Everything

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Imre Lakatos

Crime, Commitment, Virtue

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
James Patterson

Amazing, Pretty, Around

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
Boris Becker

Long, Eyes, Light

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.
Bob Ney

Writing, Reading, Name

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
Bob Ney

Equality, Knowledge, Technology

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.
Armistead Maupin

Love, Fun, Said

I don't think DIY is something that necessarily comes to mind when people hear Third Eye Blind, but that is completely how we've been from the beginning.
Stephan Jenkins

Mind, Beginning, Hear

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.
Terence Stamp

Character, Off, Sure

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
Mark Strand

Rather, Curious, Expressive

Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.
Elton Gallegly

Work, Law, Country

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
Otto Schily

Become, Problems, Question

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