Blind Quotes - Page 18

• What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

  Robert Harris

  Leadership, Choices, Decision

  Robert Harris (2003). “Pompeii”, Vintage

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• Comprometerse a ser "apóstol de la alegría" cuando humanamente podría haberse sentido al borde de la desesperación, fue realmente heroico. Podía hacerlo porque su alegría estaba arraigada en la certeza de la bondad última del amoroso plan de Dios para ella. Y aunque su fe en esta verdad no tocaba su alma con consuelo, se aventuró a afrontar los retos de la vida con una sonrisa. Su única palanca era su confianza ciega en Dios.

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Loving Life, Joy, Challenges

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.171, Random House

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• Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?

  Susan Fletcher

  Love Is, Sight, Lovely

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• You heard me. You ain't blind.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Heard

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• On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mother, Jesus, Animal

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.137, Broadway Books

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• Debido a que durante milenios hemos planteado al mundo exigencias morales, estéticas, religiosas, lo hemos contemplado con deseo ciego, pasión o miedo, y nos hemos abandonado a los malos hábitos del pensamiento ilógico, este mundo se ha vuelto gradualmente tan maravillosamente abigarrado, espantoso, significativo, lleno de alma, que ha adquirido color - pero nosotros hemos sido los coloristas: es el intelecto humano el que ha hecho aparecer las apariencias y ha transportado a las cosas sus erróneas concepciones básicas.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Significado, Religión, Verdad

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• People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Heart, Eye, Garden

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• The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Teaching, Artist, Age

  Wassily Kandinsky (1977). “Concerning the spiritual in art”, Dover Pubns

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• Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.

  Thomas Hardy

  Ideas, Color, Intuition

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• Señores, permítanme que me ponga las gafas, porque me he quedado no sólo canoso, sino casi ciego al servicio de mi país. - 15 de marzo de 1783

  George Washington

  Country, Gentleman, Patriotism

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• The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

  Harlan Ellison

  Revenge, Hate, Passion

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• A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the other old before his time. One is mortal. They share no bond of blood or sympathy, but they are twins nonetheless. They each live without ever knowing that they are brothers. They each die fighting the blind god.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Mother, Brother, Fighting

  Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.1046, Del Rey

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• I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.

  Tom Waits

  Eye, Halos, Miles

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• We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

  Voltaire

  Intelligent, Ideas, Differences

  Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.51, Voltaire

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• Se sintió conmovida por una especie de conmiseración... una lástima por aquella existencia incolora que nunca elevó a su poseedora más allá de la región de la ciega satisfacción, en la que ningún momento de angustia visitó jamás su alma, en la que nunca probaría el sabor del delirio de la vida.

  Kate Chopin

  Delirium Tremens, Soul, Contentment

  Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.72, e-artnow

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• The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.

  Ron Rash

  Atrocities, Looks, Hearing

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• He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly. Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate's again some other side of a window, watching strangers eat breakfast.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Morning, War, Pirate

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.12, Penguin

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• Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

  Emily Dickinson

  Children, Lying, Congratulations

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.431, Harvard University Press

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• El feminismo de la vieja escuela, que codicia el poder social, está ciego ante el poder sexual cósmico de la mujer.

  Camille Paglia

  Escuela, Feminismo, Coveting

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• It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

  Gregory Maguire

  Loneliness, Bereavement, Bitter

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• Y detrás no hay una casualidad ciega, sino un principio que funciona para ayudarnos a entender, mil "casualidades" y amigos vienen a mostrarnos el camino cuando el problema parece demasiado difícil de resolver solo. Problemas para superar. Libertad para probar. Y, mientras creamos en nuestro sueño, nada por casualidad.

  Richard Bach

  Soñar, Mentir, Creer

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• Whatever capacity she possesses to supernaturally beguile a human soul—and she possesses many—she liked his clear-sightedness too well, to blind him that way.

  Clive Barker

  Soul, Way, Capacity

  Clive Barker (2010). “Galilee”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

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• De ese terrible encuentro del alma con el mundo exterior nacen la enunciación, la sabiduría y la caridad; y con su nacimiento comienza una nueva vida. Llevar al santuario más íntimo del alma las fuerzas irresistibles cuyas marionetas parecemos ser -la Muerte y el cambio, lo irrevocable del pasado y la impotencia del Hombre ante la ciega prisa del universo de vanidad en vanidad- sentir estas cosas y conocerlas es conquistarlas.

  Bertrand Russell

  Past, Men, Vanity

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.52, Booklassic

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• I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

  Peter Cook

  Sorry, Able, Thanks

  Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.215, Random House

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• Siempre tenemos tendencia a ver las cosas que no existen y a ser ciegos ante las grandes lecciones que tenemos ante nuestros ojos.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Eye, Lessons

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