B Quotes
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“Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.”
“Blijf lezen, blijf leren, blijf proberen. Als je altijd hetzelfde blijft doen, dan blijf je ook dezelfde resultaten krijgen.”
Source: Druks 2: Succesvol dealen met AD(H)D
“Blimey. Are those shorts you're wearing, Lockwood, or are you trying to take flight?”
Source: The Whispering Skull
“Blimey,” said the other twin. “Are you — ?” “He is,” said the first twin. “Aren’t you?” he added to Harry. “What?” said Harry. “Harry Potter,” chorused the twins. “Oh, him,” said Harry. “I mean, yes, I am.”
“Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology
“Blind aggressiveness would destroy the attack itself, not the defense.”
Source: On War
“Blind ambition drives the foolish, while the soul directs the wise.”
Source: Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods
“Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long”
Source: Idylls of the King
“Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.”
“Blind audition format is what make our show unique and gives it so much more integrity. After all, the show is called The Voice. It's about vocals, and you have to stand out to get the attention of these four, Grammy-winning superstars who have an amazing ear and know what they're talking about. They rely on their ear as well as the reaction of fans in the audience to figure out whether that contestant is worth pressing that red button for. It's a great concept which keeps everybody on the edge of their seat.”
“Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.”
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
“Blind beliefs are the source of all evils.”
“Blind-believers and staunch atheists have the same god - namely, a self-deluded, one's own shadow's bot.”
“Blind, broke, jobless, and frustrated, Kevin found it difficult to get through the following few months. But he had one big thing going for him.
He was sober.
It was a new beginning.”
Source: Unblinded: One Man’s Courageous Journey Through Darkness to Sight
“Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.”
Source: The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers
“Blind Curve, the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.”
“Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.”
“Blind eyes cannot read.”
“Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.”
“Blind eyes see the color of life through the black screen
Blinded eyes see the black in life through a colored screen”
“Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.”
“Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”
“Blind faith is easy. Real sight is terrifying. But I’d rather stumble in truth than strut in delusion.”
“Blind faith is obstacle to holiness.”
Source: Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper
“Blind faith should be rewarded, and outright stupidity should be eradicated. I haven't decided which we have here, yet.”
Source: Drawn Together
“Blind faith will not take you there, but it will get you started.”
Source: Surrender Bono Autobiography 40 Songs By Bono & Fight Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top By Harry Hill 2 Books Collection Set
“Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.”
“Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.”
Source: Troilus and Cressida In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version
“Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see.”
“Blind fortune pursues inconsiderate rashness.
[Fr., Fortune aveugle suit aveugle hardiesse.]”
“Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary.”
“Blind heart maketh the world blind, kind heart maketh the world kind.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Blind Heart’s.
In the circle of life, a sorrowful tale,
Where death and life dance an endless wail.
Hungry eyes search for morsels to devour,
Survival's cruel game with each passing hour.
Angst and fear grip hearts, cold and bleak,
Aching souls yearning for solace they seek.
In a world that lacks fairness, unjust and unkind,
Tears fall like rain, leaving scars behind.
Hatred and love, a twisted embrace,
In this nature of existence, a bitter chase.
For when darkness looms,
Love hides in despair,
Yet hate finds its mark,
leaving hearts threadbare.
We,
people who turn blind eyes to the cries,
As if suffering and anguish were mere lies.
Ignoring the plight that surrounds us all,
Humanity's downfall, a deafening fall.
But what of the animals, creatures so dear?
Caught in this cycle, their voices unclear.
Silently they suffer, their pain left unheard,
In nature's cruel script, an unspoken word.
Children on ground, black and white
Dying, Drying while survival trying.
Scars defining not body, but soul
Oh light, forgive us Lord.
The circle spins on, in sorrow it turns,
A tragic symphony,
where hope rarely burns.
In this poem of life,
where sadness takes hold,
Let us open our eyes,
let compassion unfold.”
“Blind hope. Blind hope is all we have. There's a Greek tragedy called Prometheus Bound; Prometheus is the [titan] that gave humans fire. He's chained to a rock and bemoaning his fate and saying, "I gave you everything. By giving you fire, I gave you blind hope. By giving you a little light that kept you warm at night, I let you believe that this was all going to be okay." For me, that's what art has been. Music and books, it's an act of hope to make them, and it's an act of hope to listen to them. That hope will be dashed, you will say goodbye.”
“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.”
Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
“Blind in one eye and can't see out the other.”
“Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart”
“Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.”
“Blind is not the situation when people cannot see others but when people fail to feel or sense the existence of others”
“Blind Justice II
All because
we were in the wrong place
we were in the wrong skins
we were in the wrong time
we were in the wrong bodies
we were in the wrong country
we were in the wrong
were in the wrong
in the wrong
the wrong
wrong
All because
they were in the right place
they were in the right skins
they were in the right time
they were in the right bodies
they were”
Source: Punching the Air
“Blind love is not love. It's a mistake.”
“Blind love is not love. It's an addiction.”
“Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.”
Source: Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings
“Blind minds are worst than blind eyes. That you have eyes does not mean that you have vision. Visionaries do not look they see whlie people look.”
Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
“Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.”
“Blind nationalism is a threat to every nation on this planet.”
“Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.”
“Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.”
“Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.”