Blind Quotes - Page 21

• We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Practice, Giving

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• All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Twilight, Two, Dwelling

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• I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers.

  Natasha Friend

  Sleep, Ideas, Hot

  Natasha Friend (2010). “Lush”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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• His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.

  Michael Chabon

  Dream, Struggle, Light

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

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• No habría nadie que viviera por ella durante esos años venideros; viviría para sí misma. No habría ninguna voluntad poderosa que se doblegara a la suya en esa persistencia ciega con la que los hombres y las mujeres creen tener derecho a imponer una voluntad privada a un semejante. Una intención bondadosa o una intención cruel hacían que el acto no pareciese menos un crimen tal como ella lo contemplaba en aquel breve momento de iluminación.

  Kate Chopin

  Poderoso, Creer, Hombres

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• The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Powerful, Self

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.242, Macmillan

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• And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

  Ian Fleming

  People, Obsession, Danger

  Ian Fleming (1955). “Moonraker”, Penguin Group USA

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• How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?" Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

  James Patterson

  Way, Sun, Yeah

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.317, Hachette UK

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• Latente en todo hombre hay un veneno de asombrosa amargura, un resentimiento negro; algo que maldice y aborrece la vida, un sentimiento de estar atrapado, de haber confiado y haber sido engañado, de ser presa indefensa de una rabia impotente, de una rendición ciega, víctima de un poder salvaje y despiadado que da y quita, alista a un hombre, lo abandona, promete y traiciona, y -herida de coronación- le inflige la humillación de sentir lástima de sí mismo.

  Paul Valery

  Lo Siento, Hombres, Dar

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• Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

  Orson Scott Card

  Justice, May, Deaf

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• Desde que el primer ojo humano vio una hoja en la arenisca del Devónico y un dedo perplejo la tocó, la tristeza ha invadido el corazón del hombre. Por este tenue hilo de protoplasma vivo, que se extiende hacia atrás en el tiempo, estamos unidos para siempre a playas perdidas cuyas arenas hace tiempo que se han convertido en piedra. Las estrellas que captaron nuestra ciega mirada anfibia se han desplazado lejos o han desaparecido en su curso, pero aún así ese hilo desnudo y brillante sigue serpenteando. Nadie conoce el secreto de su principio o su fin. Sus formas son fantasmas. Sólo el hilo es real; el hilo es la vida.

  Loren Eiseley

  Playa, Estrellas, Real

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Firmament of Time: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.39, Library of America

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• If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can...bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too. ~ Jericho a.k.a. Cratus

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Fool, Murder

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• Cosas bajas y viles, que no tienen cantidad, El amor puede transponer a la forma y la dignidad. El amor no mira con los ojos, sino con la mente, y por eso es Cupido alado pintado ciego. Ni la mente del Amor tiene gusto de juicio; Alas y no ojos figuran prisa insaciable.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Eye, Wings

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.128

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• This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness, The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant. There's no getting up it by the words you know. No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe. We have only come to look. You are too new To want the world in a glass hat.

  Sylvia Plath

  Shoes, Elephants, White

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.156, Faber & Faber

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• Si los hombres pudieran aprender de la historia, qué lecciones nos enseñaría. Pero la pasión y el partido nos ciegan los ojos, y la luz que nos da la experiencia es una linterna en la popa, que sólo alumbra las olas a nuestras espaldas.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Party, Passion, Learning

  In Thomas Allsop 'Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge' (18 December 1831)

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• Ahora suzanne te coge de la mano Y te lleva al rio Lleva harapos y plumas De los mostradores del ejercito de salvacion Y el sol cae como miel Sobre nuestra señora del puerto Y ella te muestra donde mirar Entre la basura y las flores Hay heroes en las algas Hay niños por la mañana Se asoman por amor Y se asomaran asi para siempre Mientras suzanne sostiene el espejo Y tu quieres viajar con ella Y tu quieres viajar a ciegas Y sabes que ella confiara en ti Porque ha tocado tu cuerpo perfecto con su mente.

  Leonard Cohen

  Mañana, Niños, Héroe

  Leonard Cohen, "Suzanne"

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• Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've told stories in the past, painted pictures with words, told hard lies and harder truths. Once, I sang colors to a blind man. Seven hours I played, but at the end he said he saw them, green and red and gold. That, I think, was easier than this. Trying to make you understand her with nothing more than words. You have never seen her, never heard her voice. You cannot know.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Past, Men

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• Vivo de silogismos: Dios es amor. El amor es ciego. Stevie Wonder es ciego. Por lo tanto, Stevie Wonder es Dios. No sé en qué creería si no fuera por eso.

  Stephen Colbert

  Creer, El Amor Es, Maravilla

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• I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.

  Jasper Fforde

  Love, Friendship, Giving Up

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• Cualquiera que haya tenido una cita a ciegas conoce bien "El Momento", ese instante en el que entras por primera vez en un bar, restaurante o cafetería, observas a la gente y, de repente, se te para el corazón y te dices a ti mismo: oh, por favor, que sea él.

  Julie James

  Café, Corazón, Bares

  Julie James (2009). "La práctica hace al maestro", p.78, Penguin

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• Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Pain, Sight, Giving

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• Jaypaw entrecerró los ojos. "No estoy tan ciego como crees.

  Erin Hunter

  Eye, Thinking, His Eyes

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• Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

  Michael Crichton

  Blind Spots, Medicine, People

  Michael Crichton (2002). "Prey" (Presa)

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• Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

  Carson McCullers

  Stupid, Wine, Mean

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

  Pablo Neruda

  Pale, Lost

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.25, Macmillan

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