If I were blind I'd rather have another blind person leading me around because they know what I'm dealing with and they're experiencing the same things.
When I say: "I'm looking at you, I can see you", that means: "I can see you because I can't see what is behind you: I see you through the frame I am drawing. I can't see inside you". If I could see you from beneath or from behind, I would be God. I can see you because my back and my sides are blind. One can't even imagine what it would be like to see inside people.
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.
Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.
What is now an act of reason, was but blind impulse.
Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.
Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!.
Haste is blind and improvident.
Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.
Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that men are more aggressive in their offices than women. We know that. Yet we're busy telling all the women that they're too aggressive. That's the issue.
Theory can blind observation.
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.
I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.
Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.
None is so blind as he who sees too much.
Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.