#blind

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#blind #crime #does #dream #else

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. ↗

— Andre Norton

#beyond #blind #cat #folly #him

This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection. ↗

— Paul O'Neill

#blind man #connection #course #deaf #deaf people

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#content #does #forms #get #job

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#blind #justice #lame #us #well

I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#blinders #done #effort #everything #forth

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. ↗

— Grantland Rice

#dearth #flowers #gather #kindness #only

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded. ↗

— David M. Shoup

#intelligence #lack #ring

Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#american people #asylum #blinders #cannot #does

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. ↗

— Sophocles

#every #every man #far #man #near