Quotes of: Blinding Keyword

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

John George Nicolay

When you uncork a bottle of mature fine wine, what you are drinking is the product of a particular culture and tradition, a particular soil, a particular climate, the weather in that year, and the love and labour of people who may since have died. Th...

The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting

In The Republic, Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness. Their gaze is confined to the cave wall, upon which shadows of the world are thrown. They believe these flicker...

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Like casinos, large corporate entities have studied the numbers and the ways in which people respond to them. These are not con tricks - they're not even necessarily against our direct interests, although sometimes they can be - but they are hacks fo...

The Blind Giant

Contentedly sat the old woman. Soon now, the sea would hold no terrors, and the blinds wouldn't have to be down, nor the windows shut; she would even be able to walk along the shore at midnight as of old; and they, whom she had deserted so long ago, ...

Zacherley's Vulture Stew

Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.

City of Lost Souls

Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?

Cold Steel

Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features; eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.

Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)

I’d rather straighten my pubes with a flat iron than go on another blind date.

Down and Out in Bugtussle: The Mad Fat Road to Happiness

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

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security.

Domestic Violets

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

The God Delusion

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Great Expectations

Life has a way of filling up one's time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

Grandfather

This was...This was sickeningly different. It was blind, unreasoning hate that just wanted blood and she didn't understand why. It left her feeling horrified and shaky.

Bitter Blood

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

Before I Fall

The bitterest of ironies is that the people who make us feel the most accepted, secure, and whole are the same people who make us feel the most rejected, unstable, and heart broken.

Blind in Justice

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Whether we choose the path of faith or not, we all must agree that all of life's ironies cannot be by accident.

Blind Triangle: A Rare Love Story from the Sixties

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories