#blind

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#become #believe #blind #moment #see

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving. ↗

— Mark Strand

#curious #expressive #i #me #never

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. ↗

— Peter Straub

#fate #generally #i #instinct #me

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#beginning #blindness #constant #eyes #fully

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school. ↗

— William H. Gray

#argument #colorblind #equal #fair #free

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. ↗

— Bob Ney

#blind #braille #brings #code #created

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead. ↗

— Betsey Johnson

#ahead #being #blinders #full #garbage

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. ↗

— Marie Louise

#admission #am #blind #convinced #demoralized

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#black #blind #bullock #causes #demonstrates

I could tell I loved her from the moment I saw her, right after she opened the trunk, untied me, and took off my blindfold.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bound #kidnap #love #ropes #trunk