Quotes About Being Blinkered

#1. In my experience all women deserve someone better.

David Gemmell

#2. If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.

Jeremy Hardy

#3. God isn't finished with you when you retire! When we know Christ, we never retire from His service.

Billy Graham

#4. Choices can be made again. -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)

Veronica Roth

#5. Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

Rudolph Rummel

#6. Battles are won and lost through prayer.

Karen Kingsbury

#7. My grandfather had come over as a member of the czarist army, to make an arms deal with the British government. Being a blinkered military man, he was unaware that the Russian Revolution was about to take place.

Helen Mirren

#8. A poem is a naked person ... Some people say that I am a poet.

Bob Dylan

#9. The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

Capers Jones

#10. These characters cannot truly reciprocate, but can only hold a mirror up to us and our longings.

Katherine Isbister

#11. Writing. Opening a vein in your wrist with a spoon.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#12. China is so central to our economic lives that journalists have had no choice but to engage China with greater technical analysis and precision.

Evan Osnos

#13. [When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy ... Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.

Mark Helprin

#14. My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

Charles Kennedy

#15. I don't know,when they were giving out best friends at the carnival, he was all they had left-Nate

Alana Henry

#16. There are plenty of lesbians in Hollywood, but they're not out. And that's their choice, but I can't do that, it's too important to me.

Jill Bennett

#17. Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

Anthony Minghella

#18. The Israelis have a lot of influence with Congress, and in some cases they are able to buy influence.

Zbigniew Brzezinski