Nearsighted Quotes

#1. Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

Eugene H. Peterson

#2. Stange how nearsighted being invisible can make you" - said Dumbledore

J.K. Rowling

#3. As far as I could see, she had no opinion at all about anything that was not set directly in front of her (and in fact, she was extremely nearsighted).

Haruki Murakami

#4. Hand-to-hand combat with three hundred pounds of screaming monkey menace is not my idea of a fair fight. My idea of a fair fight is one unarmed, toothless, nearsighted old monkey versus me with a Blackhawk attack helicopter.

Dean Koontz

#5. So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.

John O'Hara

#6. The all-seeing government can be very nearsighted when it comes to scrutinizing the actions of its own appendages.

Neal Shusterman

#7. When I perform onstage, I'm actually kind of nearsighted, so I don't have any real, true understanding of what the audience is like.

Nick Cave

#8. This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.

Alexei Panshin

#9. I always sat in the front so I could see the blackboard - I guessed I was probably nearsighted, not that we could afford an eye exam, much less glasses.

Mia Sheridan

#10. This is a difficult country to look too different in - the United States of Advertising, as Paul Krassner puts it - and if you are too skinny or too tall or dark or weird or short or frizzy or homely or poor or nearsighted, you get crucified. I did. But

Anne Lamott

#11. There is someone looking through the befogged glass, he opens the glass door of the bar, everything is misty, inside, too, as if seen by nearsighted eyes, or eyes irritated by coal dust.

Italo Calvino

#12. Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

Garrison Keillor

#13. Religious institutions perpetuate a moral master-servant relationship. They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices!

Frank Herbert

#14. I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

Gary McCord

#15. To tell a person who has ADD to try harder is about as helpful as telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder.

Edward M. Hallowell

#16. You see the most when you're not looking for anything in particular ... when you look too hard for something, you get nearsighted because you only see what you want to see.

Katie Kacvinsky

#17. I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.

Kat Dennings

#18. Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

Jim Backus

#19. And that's what love is, I suppose. The one thing that is most worth hoping for, and the one thing that's most surprising when it lands. Because it's better. It exceeds hope, makes hope nearsighted.

Jessica Soffer

#20. He could just never see anything coming. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him inevitable yet invisible

John Green

#21. Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.

Marco Rubio

#22. Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

Neale Donald Walsch

#23. I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

Antonin Scalia

#24. That demented animal didn't deserve a name.

Kat Falls

#25. It is important that early in life you choose companionable prejudices, for the fact is that they are likely to stay with you for a lifetime.

Virginia Cary Hudson

#26. When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.

St. Lucia

#27. Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws.

Jose Antonio Vargas