Blind Quotes

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

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

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

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

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

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

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

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

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.

I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

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?

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

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.

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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

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

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

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.