Best blind & ends Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.”

Ifs Way Ideas Ends Eye Fighting Winning Argument Ultimate Blind Best Way Conclusion Old Ideas Eye For An Eye

Author:Sterling W Sill

“I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me.”

Ifs Men Feels Ends States Hands Wanted Form Dark Rooms Blind Canvas Clay Blind Man Dark Room

Author:Philip Guston

“But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.”

Source: Carlyle Reader

“The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time and patience in order to find out in which direction it is heading, a process that feels its way along the path ahead like a blind man the beginning is just the beginning, what came before is nigh on worthless.”

Men Way Feels Long Ends Order Process Path Clear Blind Thread Precise Worthless Headings Blind Man Time And Patience

Author:Jose Saramago

“There are some people who don't conform to the signals. An ordinary well-regulated locomotive slows down or pulls up when it sees the red light hoisted against it. Perhaps I was born color blind. When I see the red signal -- I can't help forging ahead. And in the end, you know, that spells disaster.”

People Knows Wells I Can Ends Helping Light Born Color Ordinary Red Blind Disaster Spells Conform Signals Slow Down Pull Ups Forging Red Lights Locomotives Forging Ahead

Author:Agatha Christie

“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.”

Want Mind Ends Play Dark Female Blind Slave Former Obedience Latter Endeavor Tyrants Vindication Blind Obedience Female Mind

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.”

Ends Young Courses Praying Majors Blind Medical Dancer Plastic Surgery Peril I Pray Procedures Alleys Plastic Surgery Dead Ends Dental Injection Medical Procedures

Author:Gelsey Kirkland

“The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never did wrong, and unnaturally bad children who never did right. At the end there was always the word MORAL, in big capital letters, as if the readers were supposed to be too blind to find it for themselves, and it had to be put directly across the path for them to stumble over.”

Ifs Children Littles Book Ends Bigs Reading House Poor Education Moral Path Dog Reader Letters Blind Meetings Supposed To Be

Author:Annie Fellows Johnston

“Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.”

World Firsts Children Littles Ends Bigs Spirit Turns Poor Christianity Band Shots Importance Blind Shirts Tails Weary Arrangements Halt Parades Lame Christmas Spirit Procession Big Shots

Author:Bill Vaughan

“How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has been marching since the beginning of time. Where Martin Luther King started is where Gandhi left off, and where he started, Abe Lincoln left off, and before that Whitfield all the way back to Moses. God has not moved. We have. But it is never too late. We are not at the mercy of these events. We can alter the course of history. We can stand against the dangerous arc of this story. But we need people who are willing to speak truth.”

“An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.”

Ends Action Independent Blind Instinct Tendencies Agents Consideration

Book:Miscellaneous Lectures and Reviews

Source: Miscellaneous Lectures and Reviews

“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.”

Source: Faith in the Public Square

“Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.”

Ifs Way Ends States Reason Nations Social Justice Love Is Violence Pure Social Justice Blind Instance Communism Reasonable Bad Things Fascism Schemes Atheistic Pure Love Blind Love

Author:Francis George

“Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.”

Way Ends Function Blind Definite Precise Adaptation Extinction Alleys Dead Ends Optimal

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.”

People Ifs Thinking World Long Said Ends Bigs Lasts Dating Breaths Blind Sorry Seconds Stink Blind Date

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.”

Writing Wells Ends Artist Break Achieve Century Painting Expression Photography Aim Instruments Blind Blow Appearance Invention Mortals Imitation Assured Nineteenth Century Recklessness

Author:Andre Breton

“I let a friend set me up on a blind date. It was a disaster. She ended up being a burn victim. By the end of the night.”

Ends Night Dating Victim Blind Disaster Blind Date

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will probably end up dating the best looking blind chick.”

Men Ends Land Dating Blind Chicks

Author:Dana Gould

“The warmongers in the United States Congress are not aware of, or they're blind to the fact that what they are doing will bring about the type of war that will end America completely as a power in the world.”

World War Ends States Facts America United United States Type Blind Congress Warmongers

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there.”

Ends Beautiful Black Interest Community Grew Development Grew Up Organization Blind Fixing Black Community Nonprofits Beautiful Love Fixing Things

Author:Erykah Badu

“In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react.”

Thinking Ends Able Feet Blind Get Back Alleys

Author:Duncan Green

“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”

Mind Ends Women Female Blind Obedience Womens Rights Mother And Daughter Vindication Blind Obedience Female Mind Women's Education

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.”

“Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.”

Source: The Firmament of Time: A Library of America eBook Classic

“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.”

Thinking Knows Men Trying Said Ends Hard Stories Hands Past Lying Voice Hours Saws One Thing Heard Color Easier Red Gold Let Me Harder Blind Green Seven Pens Dip Blind Man Kvothe

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!”

Knows Giving Mean Ends Quality Know How Strange My Friends Blind Odds Odds And Ends

Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

“All things that are, are ours. But we must care. For if we do not care, we do not exist. If we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion. And even oblivion must end someday. Lord, will you grant me just a little time? For the proper balance of things. To return what was given. For the sake of prisoners and the flight of birds. Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in azrael's features. Death glanced sideways at the servants. Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?”

“Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully." She sighed, annoyed. "He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.”

Knows Said Stills Ends Helping One Day Mark Blind Ministers Prime Bully Prime Minister Annoyed Charisma God Help God Help Us

Author:Patrick Ness

“Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?”

Knows Men Heart Ends Earth Night Hate Fall Evil Heaven Sweet Circumstances Men And Women Blind Blow Strikes Bitter Good And Evil Thread Love And Hate Prompts Airy Evil Love

Author:H. Rider Haggard

“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.”

Knows World Way Love Ends Earth Feet Breaths Blind Smell End Of The World

Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, Darkens, ends as a tale that is told, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, One, still one, while the world grows old.”

World Life Heart Stills Ends Seems Grows Sea Wind Broken My Heart Blind Clouds Wave Tales

Book:The Golden Hynde

Source: The Golden Hynde

“Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”

“If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?”

“The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.”

“We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Two War Ends Cities Cutting Ought Destruction Logic Blind Mutual Village Display Tied Rope Clash Knots Annihilation Sowing Moles Two Of Us

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a star conceived and a star kills. He is greater than those bright blind companies. For though in them there is incalculable potentiality, in him there is achievement, small, but actual. Too soon, seemingly, he comes to his end. But when he is done he will not be nothing, not as though he had never been; for he is eternally a beauty in the eternal form of things.”

Men Ends Done Form Spirit Stars Company Greater Achievement Eternal Fairs Accounts Blind

Author:Olaf Stapledon

“And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for everybody. Means and ends are inseparable. The means represent the ideal in the making; in the long run of history destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends.”

“We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us.”

Two Ends Enough Smart Blind Salvation Just One Cooperation Halt

Author:Maureen Duffy

“The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose their chance at divinity - those who mold themselves blind masks of Ideas & thrash around seeking some proof of their own solidity end by seeing out of dead men's eyes.”

Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism

“I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.”

Firsts Ends Forget Darkness Broken Adversity Blind Silent Defeat Disaster France Britain Abandoned Magnitude Great Britain Reckoning Czechoslovakia

Author:Winston Churchill

“So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.”

“I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.”

People Ifs Knows Way Ends Hurt Goes On Blind Love Someone Trusting People Blind Trust

Author:Bipasha Basu

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