Top 1200 Blind Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

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

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'

Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats

The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream down eager avenues of lifelessness consider for how much themselves shall gleam, in the poised radiance of perpetualness. When what’s in velvet beyond doomed thought is like a woman amorous to be known; and man,whose here is alway worse than naught, feels the tremendous yonder for his own— on such a night the sea through her blind miles of crumbling silence seriously smiles

It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

I work a lot with blind people in my spare time outside of Unilever, and I count my blessings every day.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''

I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!'

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

I went to an all-girls' school with 43 people in my class, so dances were small. I always went with girlfriends or a blind date.

I show more blind rage than Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles wrestling in a steel cage.

Grace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But chooses to see God's forgiveness even more.

What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you do not remember this, You will get lost, No matter how intelligent you are. It is the great secret.

In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over the earth when it was suited to man.

Man is completely out of phase with nature. Nature is woman. Man is the intruder. The man who re-attunes himself with nature is the man who de-mans himself or eliminates himself as man.

I am an unmarried man, as opposed to a single man. A bachelor, according to the dictionary, is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man is not married at the moment. Many of these terms have fallen into disuse.

If our supreme value is the development of the Western tradition - of a man for whom the highest thing in life is man, for whom love for man, respect for man, and the dignity of man, are supreme values - then we cannot ask the question that says, "if it is better for our survival, might we drop these values?"

Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.

If there's one thing I've learned in this life, it's that you never say no to an old gypsy woman with a blind eye and leprous fingernails.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.

I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.

Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some knowledge. A writer in the Manchester Guardian who is unknown to me lately described me as "the richest man in the world." That sounds a pretty big order, but when I come to think it out I believe he is not far wrong. A rich man is not necessarily a man with a whole pot of money but a man who is really happy. And I am that.

Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.

A man's a man for a' that. . . . . A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith he mauna fa' that! . . . Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, When man to man, the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that.

I had always liked blind dates. If nothing else, it was an interesting way of discovering what people thought of you.

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.

Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor or pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.

What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.