Best blind & lasts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.”

Firsts Looks Said Eye Lasts Air Ambition Blind Fortune Prosperity Prudence Eagles

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race.”

World Inspirational Humans Lasts Past Mother Passion Race Teach Saws Blind Human Race Blindness Brooding

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.”

Years Lasts Blind Territory Sixty Abstraction Deaf Territorial Deaf And Blind

Book:Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

Source: Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860

“The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.”

World Feels Should Happens Lasts Blind Scripture

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.”

“The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.”

People World Humans Lasts Forget Vision Building Theory Periods Method Blind Spots Landscape Shock Vocabulary Relativity Disturbance Computing Stunned Upheaval Blind Spots Tics

Book:The Art of Being Ruled

Source: The Art of Being Ruled

“True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd.”

Firsts Lasts Parent Grace Humility Shame Blind Vanity Modesty Counterfeit Discerning

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.”

Needs Mind Firsts Home Eye Lasts Saws Sight Blind Trade Fortune Rate Seeking Mechanic Stay At Home Coquette

Book:Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

Source: Miscellaneous Works: To which is Prefixed Some Account of His Life and Writings

“Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves, and team of sparrows; Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lips, the rose Growing one's cheek (but none knows how); With these, the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin: All these did my Campaspe win. At last he set her both his eyes - She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O Love! has she done this for thee? What shall, alas! become of me?”

“Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all overthe place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?”

Men Reason Kids Lasts House Hours Fire Fate Figures Broken Gun Shots Blind Details Accidents Planning Sensible Chasing Accord Alarms Broken Down Burglars Old Houses

Author:Ben Maddow

“The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, The wounds of the baited bear,-- The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.”

Heart Self Lasts Dark Darkness Tears Bears Beats Blind Misery Flesh Wounds Sparks Helpless Weeping Keepers Hunted Hares

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.”

Ifs Believe Stills God Lasts Felt Religious Prayer Cold Worship Singing Blind Silly Mathematical Useless There Is No God Praying To God Hymns Cleaners I Still Believe God Prayer

Book:The Collector

Source: The Collector

“Security in human systems we're told will always, always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.”

Humans Real Lasts Emotion Security Breaths Blind Sail Blind Faith Real Freedom Masts

Author:Sting

“Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this universe, which I by my marvelous discoveries and clear demonstrations had enlarged a hundred thousand times beyond the belief of the wise men of bygone ages, henceforward for me is shrunk into such a small space as is filled by my own bodily sensations.”

“I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.”

Should Wells Mean Said Reason Lasts Form Left Moral Willing Months Slavery Blind Folly Smoking Delightful Pipe Gave Up Solace Fling

Author:James M. Barrie

“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

“Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?”

Thinking Knows Should Writing Littles Lasts Guy Creative Saws Teacher Please Labor Blind Combat Camps Creative Writing Confined Harps Instructors Iliad

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of theatrical convention that I realize I hate while I'm making it. So then the next play is always a rebellion. Or like, the thing I didn't even realize I was doing last time I will make sure I don't do this time. But there's always some other blind spot. And then that blind spot inspires the play that comes after.”

Play Lasts Hate Next Realizing Inspire Projects I Hate Blind Corners Spots Rebellion Conventions Last Time Theatrical Blind Spots Next Play

Author:Annie Baker

“I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies.”

Lasts Night Blind Filled Train Last Night Wrecks Puppy Shameful Train Wrecks

Author:Charlie Sheen

“Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!”

Knows Lasts Night Trouble Blind Enjoyed Consolation Last Night Nobody Knows

Author:James Thurber

“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.”

World Body Pain Lasts Night Fall Stars Wall Shadow Blind Finals Indifference Scare Barrels Rifles Unfeeling

Author:Roger Waters

“Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.”

Ifs Feels Sometimes Able Lasts Minutes Blessed Blind Blindness

Author:Stevie Wonder

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”

Lasts Love Is Blind Bounds

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”

“Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”

Life Believe Mean Children Stills I Can Reality Eye Pain Lasts Night Lost Process Blind Painful Absence Accustomed Last Night Blind Faith

Author:Anais Nin

“I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody, trying to convince us that smoking will kill us. But Mother once told me tongue kissing would turn me blind and I'm starting to think it's all just a big plot between the surgeon general and Mother to make sure no one ever has any fun.”

Thinking Giving Trying Bigs Light Lasts Mother Night Turns Fun Television Kissing Blind Fingers Starting Tongue Smoking Convince Plot Cigarette Last Night Surgeons Turn Me Convince Us

Author:Kathryn Stockett

“Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it was a typo. Yeah, I’m sure his finger just happened to slip two spaces to the left).”

Years Two Lasts Guy Left Space Happened Yeah Blind Fingers Nine Thirty Fifty Slips Last Year Blind Date Typos

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again. The one who wanted her baby back lost chance of having one again, And the one who had a vision to see his country change became blind.”

Feels Two Country Wanted Lasts Lost Chance Vision Brother Baby Members Blind Warmth Family Members Two Brothers

Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.”

Men Moments Lasts Brother Blind Realization That Moment Brotherhood Realised Dead Man

Book:I was a German: An Autobiography

Source: I was a German: An Autobiography

“I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.”

“There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.”

Years May States Lasts United Attention United States Fool Europe Twenties Blind Alternatives Pay Attention

Author:Mark Steyn

“Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.”

“(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.”

Thinking Life Mind Lasts Fairs Blind Delight Noble Nobility Scorn Fury Infirmity Spun Slits Shears

Author:John Milton

“It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, we don’t need protections against it.”

People Thinking Needs Years Country Government Lasts Happened Blind Protection Decades Blind Faith

Author:James Bovard

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