#blind

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#blind #blind eye #condemned #eye #occur

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds. ↗

— John Dryden

#different #different way #enlightens #fool #love

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#blind #love

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#blind #cross #dark #falls #forty

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#blind #body #brain #breathing #daughter

They say that right before you die your whole life flashes before you – a medley of your own personal greatest hits. Well then, I must be about to live, because events that haven’t happened yet are constantly pushing themselves into my head. ↗

— Emlyn Chand

#fiction #paranormal #psychic-powers #ya #yalit

Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually. ↗

— James Patterson

#gun #iggy #guns

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bedrock #blinded #could #discourage #faith

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. ↗

— John Adair

#chief #chief executive #effective #executive #far

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#decay #forces #liberated #satire #total