Best Blindfolds Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God”

Source: The Essential Jefferson

“The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever. Pause, my soul, On these strange words - for ever - whose large sound Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise Our human moans make on the shores of Time. O Thou that openest, and no man shuts; That shut'st, and no man opens - Thee we wait!”

“We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.”

Mind Looks May Doe Said Eye Faces Death Truth Is Office Bravery Resolution Contempt Execution Blindfolds Good Office

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“A passion is a contranatural movement of the soul or an irrational love, or an blindfold hatred toward any material thing, or because of it: for example, for food, or for women, or for riches, or for worldly glory, or any other sensible thing; or for the sake of such things, as in a senseless hatred for someone on account of the things mentioned above.”

Inspirational Soul Christian Passion Religious Example Movement Materials Glory Hatred Accounts Sake Riches Orthodox Sensible Irrational Worldly Material Things Blindfolds

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.”

Standing Standing There Blindfolds

Author:John D. MacDonald

“If I were blind, I'd wear a blindfold all the time.”

Ifs Blind Blindfolds

Author:Demetri Martin

“As a practice exercise, I'd usually just wear blindfolds around the house to allow my other senses to take me wherever I would like to go.”

House Practice Exercise Senses Take Me Blindfolds

Author:Denzel Whitaker

“The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.”

Firsts Stuff Loss Mark Trade Creator Expenses Foreheads Great Loss Blindfolds

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.”

Firsts Different Young Guy Girl Tables Train Cooks Sat Kitchen Chef Tasting Blindfolded Blindfolds

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness.”

Ifs Self Country Eye Voice Greatness Tears Our Country Denial Deception Hype Self Deception Self-denial Gags Blindfolds

Author:Theodore C. Sorensen

“It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.”

Hard Together Used Habit Doing You Back Together Old Habits Blindfolds

Author:Tom Waits

“I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.”

Turns Doors Kissing Someday Peter Bye Kiss Me Good Bye Blindfolds

Book:Shadow of the Hegemon