Blind Quotes - Page 14

• I think there's something about being a neophyte that's refreshing and hard to duplicate; it brings about real innovation. Innovation usually comes about through blind ignorance.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Real, Ignorance, Thinking

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Michael Jordan was blessed by God to play basketball and Roger Brown was the closet person to him I ever saw. I don't say that lightly. Roger was phenomenal. There was nothing he couldn't do. He was so quick he would trick people blind - I even saw him miss layups because he was laughing so hard at what he had just done to someone.

  Mel Daniels

  Basketball, Blessed, Laughing So Hard

  Source: alanpaul.net

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

  Robert Schimmel

  People, Done, Ass

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

  Akiane Kramarik

  Past, Deaf, Mute

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• These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dog, Heart, Men

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• Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

  Karl Barth

  Crush, Heaven, Shining

  Karl Barth (2003). “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”, p.21, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Our very eyes
  Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Sometimes, Judgment

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.47

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• Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Our Society, Lost, Imagery

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• In the fall of 1988, I worshipped God in a Buddhist temple. As the smell of incense filled the air, I knelt before three images of the Buddha, feeling that the smoke could carry my prayers heavenward. It was for me a holy moment for I was certain that I was kneeling on holy ground....I will not make any further attempt to convert the Buddhist, the Jew, the Hindu or the Moslem. I am content to learn from them and to walk with them side by side toward the God who lives, I believe, beyond the images that bind and blind us.

  John Shelby Spong

  Buddhist, Prayer, Believe

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• Until very recently, most knowledge was inaccessible to people who couldn't read text. But this is changing. The computer opens up other channels of gaining knowledge. If someone is blind, we now have very good machines that will read to him. If someone can't recognize letters, he also will have access to knowledge through sound and images.

  Seymour Papert

  People, Sound, Machines

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• Think about the photo you want to make beforehand. Then do it, but also don't be blind to better options that present themselves at the location. Be flexible, and be patient. Leave ego at home. Get the photo before you yell at the asshole, not after.

  Peter Menzel

  Home, Thinking, Ego

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• One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

  Drew Houston

  Optimism, Entrepreneur, Tolerance

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• Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

  Vance Havner

  Leader, Bland

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• Let us have no further blind devotion to the communist dominated United Nations!

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Devotion, Communist, United Nations

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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