Blinded Quotes - Page 3

• The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Children, Might

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two minutes. Since they made no attempt to move within that time he called them breakfast and ate them. Between them they killed a virulent space disease he'd picked up without knowing it in the Flargathon Gas Swamps a few days earlier, which otherwise would have killed off half the population of the Western Hemisphere, blinded the other half, and driven everyone else psychotic and sterile, so the Earth was lucky there.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Two, Knowing

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.510, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

  Ezra Pound

  Lying, Theorists, Presses

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• Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

  Debbie Macomber

  Loss, Our World, Order

  Debbie Macomber (2014). “Choir of Angels”, p.315, MIRA

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• I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

  Arthur Golden

  Beautiful, Men, Long

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.225, Random House

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• Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

  Victor Hugo

  Dark, Hands, Long

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• To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Land, Safety

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.

  Annie Dillard

  Prayer, Wings, Water

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• Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best songs have a strong dose of metaphor. Most songs about science don't have that. Like 'She Blinded Me With Science.' It's a stupid song, no offense to Thomas Dolby.

  Greg Graffin

  Song, Strong, Stupid

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• I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

  Steven Wright

  Reflection, People, Levels

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• I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

  Gustav Mahler

  Crazy, Passion, Men

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• Blinded following the Blindfolded

  Daniel Handler

  Following, Blindfolded

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• Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Decision, Parent

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel genuinely sorry for those who are so blinded by narrow partisanship that they cannot appreciate Limbaugh's energy, intelligence and satiric skill. They live in a box with bags over their heads. Though he and I hardly agree on politics (I voted for Ralph Nader last year and may go Green again in 2004), I respect Limbaugh as a political analyst and deft rhetorician who is a master of the microphone and who knows how to engage and challenge a vast audience.

  Camille Paglia

  Sorry, Years, Skills

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• Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

  Brom

  Hate, Fighting, Sides

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• There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.

  Alison Croggon

  Lust, Desire, Force

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• I felt compelled to venture forth and explore the true face of the world. Leading a satisfying life of plenty had blinded many of us to the immense hardships beyond our borders.

  Werner Bischof

  Borders, Hardship, World

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• These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone.

  James A. Baldwin

  Growing Up, Boys, Two

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Wrestling, Writing

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• Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Eye, Simple

  Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

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• Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I'd be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Morning, Sun, Spots

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.152, Penguin Group

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• At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse— at least, blinded by the light, young love is. But we are older, I to love and you to be loved, we have, no matter how, by our wills survived to keep the jeweled prize always at our finger tips. We will it so and so it is past all accident.

  William Carlos Williams

  Love, Sorry, Selfish

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.215, New Directions Publishing

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• Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

  J.R. Ward

  Humanity, Culture, Wonder

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.882, Penguin

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• To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the thin veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dirty, Thinking, People

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