Blind Quotes - Page 6

• The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

  George McGovern

  Love, Country, Memorial Day

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

  Armistead Maupin

  Valentines Day, Fun, Valentine's Day

  Armistead Maupin (1992). “Maybe the moon: a novel”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

  Ken Harrelson

  Kings, Men, Towns

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• To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

  John Updike

  America, Ungrateful, President

  1974 Polk. Buchanan Dying, act 2.

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  Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Mother And Daughter, Mind

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.2.

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• Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

  Ernestine Rose

  Men, Resistance, Virtue

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• I will not go on a blind date.

  Jordana Brewster

  Goes On, Blind Date

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

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• Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

  Andre Norton

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

  Alfred Jarry

  Real, Men, Discipline

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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! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

  John Milton

  Grief, Loss, Dark

  John Milton (1853). “The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed”, p.359

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• The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Color, Numbers, Roles

  "THE LEADING MEN: Angel of Music". Interview with Wayman Wong, www.playbill.com. August 2, 2004.

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• The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fall, Young, Blindness

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.165

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• Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Workout, Sweetheart

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• Haste is blind and improvident.

  Livy

  Haste, Blindness

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

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• An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

  A. J. Liebling

  Travel, Food, Teaching

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• I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Life And Love, Humorous

  Annie Hall, www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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

  Steve Forbes

  Eye, Slave Labor, Chinese

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

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• The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

  Ben Harper

  Boys, Musical, Heritage

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• The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Sin, Natural

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2006). “Huxley's Autobiography and Essays”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

  John Madden

  Horse, Nfl, Worry

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• Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mom, Baby, People

  LEWIS MUMFORD (1961). “THE CITY IN HISTORY”

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• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Eye, Fever, Mary

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1953). “By the Shores of Silver Lake”

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• Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

  Don Henley

  Moving, Inspire, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

  Herb Kohl

  Views, Justice, May

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