Blind Quotes - Page 27

• In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king

  Michael Grant

  Kings, Men, Land

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• Todos los grandes hombres son maníacos. Están poseídos por una manía que les impulsa hacia su objetivo. Los grandes científicos, los filósofos, los líderes religiosos... todos son maníacos. ¿Qué otra cosa, si no un ciego propósito único, podría haber centrado su genio y haberles mantenido en la senda del objetivo? La manía... es tan inestimable como el genio.

  Ian Fleming

  Religioso, Hombres, Objetivo

  "Dr. No". Libro de Ian Fleming, cap. 15: La caja de Pandora, 1958.

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• Nunca te precipites. Podría azotarte los ojos y dejarte ciego.

  Stephen Colbert

  Eye, Wind, Caution

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• Of course I can see you. I'm not blind, you know. Oh, but you are. You just don't know it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Courses, Knows, I Can

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream down eager avenues of lifelessness consider for how much themselves shall gleam, in the poised radiance of perpetualness. When what’s in velvet beyond doomed thought is like a woman amorous to be known; and man,whose here is alway worse than naught, feels the tremendous yonder for his own— on such a night the sea through her blind miles of crumbling silence seriously smiles

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Night, Men

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• I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

  John Green

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Thinking

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.146, Penguin UK

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• It has always seemed to me that if one falls in love with any gentleman one becomes instantly blind to his faults.But I am not blind to your faults, and I do not think that everything you do or say is right! Only—Is it being—not very comfortable—and cross—and not quite happy, when you aren’t there?” “That, my darling,” said his lordship,taking her ruthlessly into his arms,“is exactly what it s!” “Oh—!” Frederica gasped, as she emerged from an embrace which threatened to suffocate her. “Now I know! I am in love!

  Georgette Heyer

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Gentleman

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• I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint - I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find.

  Tom Waits

  Selfish, Angel, Devil

  Tom Waits (2007). "The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983", Ecco

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• Jon: Have you seen the wall? | Sam: I'm fat, not blind.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wall, Fats

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• I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

  Madeline Miller

  Love, Smell, Feet

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We are only as blind as we want to be.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Want

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• The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it

  Luis de Bernieres

  Flor, Jardín, Necesidades

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.119, Vintage

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• If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

  Lauren Oliver

  World, Way, Stealing

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.410, Hachette UK

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• A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Vision, Special, Prophet

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1785, Random House

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• It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Color, Would Be, Might

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• I just hope that one day - preferably when we’re both blind drunk - we can talk about it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Drunk, One Day

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• La vida no es un pasillo recto y fácil por el que viajamos libres y sin obstáculos, sino un laberinto de pasadizos, a través de los cuales debemos buscar nuestro camino, perdidos y confusos, de vez en cuando metidos en un callejón sin salida. Pero siempre, si tenemos fe, se nos abrirá una puerta, quizá no una que nosotros mismos hubiéramos imaginado, pero que al final nos hará bien...

  A.J. Cronin

  Vida, Fe, Religión

  "Tesoro de ilustraciones de Knight". Libro de Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.

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• A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.

  Melina Marchetta

  Men, Soul, Entwined

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• We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.: Glitch snorted. "More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark.

  Darynda Jones

  Dark, Justice, Trying

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Death and the Girl Next Door”, p.92, Macmillan

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• Un fenómeno que se observa a menudo. Un escéptico que se adhiere a un creyente; eso es tan simple como la ley de los colores complementarios. Lo que nos falta nos atrae. Nadie ama la luz como el ciego.

  Victor Hugo

  Simple, Men, Light

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.441, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tessa estaba convencida de que era mentira, y también de que todo lo que había hecho en su vida, diciéndose a sí misma que era lo mejor, no había sido más que egoísmo ciego, generando confusión y desorden a su alrededor. Pero ¿quién podría soportar saber qué estrellas estaban ya muertas, pensó, parpadeando hacia el cielo nocturno; alguien podría soportar saber que todas lo estaban?

  J. K. Rowling

  Estrellas, Mentira, Noche

  J.K. Rowling (2012). “The Casual Vacancy”, p.295, Hachette UK

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• Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

  John Green

  Cancer, Mean, Evidence

  John Green (2012). "La Falla en Nuestras Estrellas", p.48, Penguin

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• He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.

  David Levithan

  Eye, Loss, Upset

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.160, Egmont UK

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• Muerte, habrá muerte, sí. Su señoría perdió un hijo en la Boda Roja. Yo perdí cuatro en el Aguasnegras. ¿Y por qué? Porque los Lannister robaron el trono. Ve a Desembarco del Rey y mira a Tommen con tus propios ojos, si dudas de mí. Un ciego podría verlo. ¿Qué te ofrece Stannis? Venganza. Venganza por mis hijos y los vuestros, por vuestros maridos y vuestros padres y vuestros hermanos. Venganza por su señor asesinado, su rey asesinado, sus príncipes masacrados. ¡Venganza!

  George R. R. Martin

  Hermano, Reyes, Marido

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• It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

  George R. R. Martin

  Stupid, Night, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.652, Bantam

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