Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is being used to foment holy war against America.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Well done, Sister," Blind Seer said. "I look forward to meeting this One above Ones. Now, you must make ready. I, of course, am already perfect.
Undoubtedly, the biggest misconception about me is that I'm some staunch conservative, blind, rightwing hardcore Republican who doesn't want to hear anything from the other side.
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.
If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.
My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.
My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
People aren't blind. They know - they want to have a country where people who are coming in are known to our authorities, those who are in charge of this.
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that.
The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye
So may I, blind fortune leading me,
Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
And die with grieving.
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?
I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.
More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.
For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them!
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
While ideological blinkers blind one to change that one does not wish to see, statistics and opinion surveys, too, have their limitations in a complex polity like India.
Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.
All abilities are paid for with disabilities. perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. insight into one area involves blind spots in another.
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.
In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.
You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.
Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost!
I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.
Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.
Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.
In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.
Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.
We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.
I think fans are so brought up in a culture of rooting for a team since they were kids, ostensibly, and are blind to this idea that people might take offense.
Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.
I look at my own body
With eyes no longer blind-
And I see that my own hands can make
The world that's in my mind.
Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.
Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.
Love fundamentally is the most powerful ecstasy of consciousness, and even if a person goes blind, there is no question when you are in love.
The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.
There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost nothing in common except for a love of music - that is really rejuvenating.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.
I think true love is never blind, / But rather brings an added light; / An inner vision quick to find / The beauties hid from common sight.
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.
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