Blind Quotes - Page 4

• [On his heroin addiction:] I did it to myself. It wasn't society...it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

  Ray Charles

  Addiction, Black, Heroin

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• Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.

  Georges Rouault

  Artist, Objectivity, Subjective

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• I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

  Susan Sarandon

  Eye, Justice, Live In The Moment

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

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• Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

  Marston Bates

  Reading, Research, Literacy

  "The Nature of Natural History". Book by Marston Bates, 1950.

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• Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

  Sophocles

  Men, Every Man

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• That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

  Cynthia Weil

  Real, Writing, Creative

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

  John Milton

  Loss, Sight, Enemy

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.67-79.

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• Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

  Ernest Renan

  Blessed, Enough, Knows

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

  Bobby Heenan

  Easter, Yummy, Cycling

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• Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Men, Color, Bogart

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• I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.

  Wendy Liebman

  Funny, Dog, Witty

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• All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

  Meryl Streep

  Faith, Blind Belief, Acting

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

  Mother Jones

  People, Blindness, Shortcomings

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• 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

  People, Age, Looks

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.147, Verso

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

  George Grosz

  Drunk, Joy

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

  Joe Chung

  Skins, Deeper

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• You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

  Ken Burns

  Years, Six, Approach

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• The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Notion

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”, p.85, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

  Thomas Otway

  Justice, Lame, Wells

  Nicholas Rowe, James Thompson, Richard Steele, Richard-Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas-John Dibdin (1815). “Tamerlane. A Tragedy”

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• Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Motivational, Being Strong

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• With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities.

  Dalai Lama

  Confidence, Wise, Wisdom

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2013). “The Dalai Lama’s Little Book of Wisdom”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Love You

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 6, l. 36

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• A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Men, Mind

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• I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

  William Faulkner

  Hot, Earth, Feels

  William Faulkner (1964). “As I Lay Dying”, GoodBook Classics

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• Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

  William Blake

  Love, Joy, Mind

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.156, Pearson Education

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