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Quotes About Blind

The referees have always been blind, it's our job to make them deaf.
~ Anonymous
They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
~ Anonymous
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
~ Anonymous
Love is blind; hate is deaf.
~ Anonymous
Three blind mice, see how they run!They all ran after the farmer's wife,She cut off their tails with a carving knife,Did you ever see such a sight in your life,As three blind mice?
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
What light shines at night! He never knew. Light will blind him.
~ Anthony Doerr
But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.
~ Ford Madox Ford
The human creature, humiliated and offended in ways that are inconceivable to the mind and heart, defies the blind and deaf divinity.
~ Françoise Mauriac
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
~ Frank Herbert
To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.
~ Frank Herbert
To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils. If you try to interpret what you see for the blind, you tend to forget that the blind possess an inherent movement conditioned by their blindness. They are like a monstrous machine moving along its own path. They have their own momentum, their own fixations. I fear the blind, Stil. I fear them. They can so easily crush anything in their path.
~ Frank Herbert
Matt Murdock is blind -- so he misses the prettiest morning of the year. All he gets is hissing pipes and an East Coast chill that goes straight for the bones
~ Frank Miller
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
~ Matthew Henry
The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch TV and reminds me of the grave and committed role of the poet. Although he was blind, Milton had one of the most unswerving gazes of all English poets.
~ Tony Harrison
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.
~ Robert Toombs
From the perspective of a narcissist, a person who claims to love them is a fraud, a liar, or blind.
~ Rokelle Lerner
The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the novelist and adore him, with pity, honor, and love.
~ Roman Payne
The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.
~ Ron Rash
What are this blind dates?' he asked curiously . 'An old American institution of mismating.
~ Rona Jaffe
No one will see our Jesus if they can't see past our blind allegiance to a man who is nothing like him.
~ Ronald J. Sider
This time, the rapids sent them through a dark tunnel that seemed timeless, blind, malevolent. A yawning throat of water.
~ Louise Erdrich
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
~ Henry Kissinger
I study you so much to discover the possible flaws, the weak points, the danger zones. I don't find them—not any. That means I am in love, blind, blind. To be blind forever! (Now they're singing "Heaven and Ocean" from La Gioconda.)
~ Anais Nin
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.
~ Anais Nin