We cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life. – Pope Francis
I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes… I really do not see the signal! – Horatio Nelson
I have serious adult acne, am almost legally blind and have to work at controlling my weight. – Georgette Mosbacher
There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. – Helen Hunt Jackson
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. – William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, Act 2, Scene 6, Jessica.
Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams… but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality. – Jonathan Haidt
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000. – Iain McGilchrist
He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Union as deep in debt as are many of the States, and to subjugate the whole to the paper system. – John C. Calhoun
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It’s called Four Blind Mice and it’s a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military. – James Patterson
Why pour shampoo into a rabbit’s eyes to see how much shampoo you can put in an adult’s eyes before they go blind? I’ll put them in my hair, in my eyes before I would give them to anyone else. – John Paul DeJoria
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community. – Julia Ward Howe
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. – Helen Rowland
Social reality is so complicated that, once you join one team or the other, you become specialized in detecting certain patterns, but you become blind to other patterns. – Jonathan Haidt
My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye. – Joe Frazier
The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that’s what gets me the best material. – Jennifer Egan
Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade. – John Tyler
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. – John Updike