Zitat des Tages über Blind:
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
Many communities have turned a blind eye to what goes on inside funeral homes, as many people prefer not to know the ins and outs of the business. In addition, grieving customers in need of funeral goods and services may not be in a healthy state of mind to make financial decisions.
If you're ever bcc'd, do not go near 'reply all.' 'Bcc' is 'blind carbon copy.' It means you're a fly on the wall, dude! If you hit reply all, it's beyond bad etiquette to out the person who gave you the superpower of invisibility. It's like screaming, 'I'm a spy!'
Everything for me has happened so quickly. I finished shooting 'The Blind Side' not this past June, but the June before, and all of sudden up to now, it seems like it's gone from zero to 60 for me. I feel so fortunate to be able to say that.
I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.
Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
It is we that are blind, not fortune.
We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
I think love is blind. You don't see it; you don't hear what people are saying or what you're saying. You don't see what you're doing. All you see is the person in front of you. That's it.
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.
When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.
I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?
Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
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.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Experience is the cane of the blind.
I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.
The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.