Quotes About Blinkers

#1. I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blinkers and the self, now gradually the reemergence of a self without blinkers.

Paul Klee

#2. To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states. States function only in terms of what those in control perceive as power or personal ambition, and both of these wear blinkers.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

J.L. Austin

#4. Check to make sure your brake lights and blinkers work....

Michael J. DiPinto

#5. I need advice and opinion-honest opinion. I want to get better. Why go around with blinkers on?

Natasha Richardson

#6. Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

Matthew Green

#7. Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention
a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?

C.S. Lewis

#8. Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#9. Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers.

Archibald Primrose

#10. The fractured self is not something that needs to be rectified fixed and made whole; by freeing thought of the blinkers of representation, the space of fracture, of multiplicity (as opposed to unity) becomes a powerful place and one from which the most radical ideas can emerge.

Ria Banerjee

#11. Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Laurence Housman

#12. PEACE DOES NOT MEAN TO BE IN A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO NOISE, TROUBLE, OR HARD WORK. PEACE MEANS TO BE IN THE MIDST OF ALL THOSE THINGS AND STILL BE CALM IN YOUR HEART. THAT IS THE REAL MEANING OF PEACE.

Various

#13. Before OkCupid profiles became mandated by the Galactic Government, the only way to find a mate was to self-induce brain-damage and beg strangers for sex in public. The fact that anyone ever achieved sexual congress during these dark times is a remarkable testament to man's will to survive.

Simon Rich

#14. In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself ... The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

Louis Antoine De Saint-Just

#15. It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Colm Meaney

#16. I would rather have a moment of everything with you than a lifetime of nothing

Samantha Towle

#17. It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

Chris Thile

#18. I waved and cried and smiled at the same time like Mum and Mrs Mack, so Sandy and Jeff remember us smiling not sobbing as they left.

Jackie French

#19. Being poor in the Spirit means you are humble, gentle, meek, God-fearing,kind and exhibit the fruits of the Spirit but being Spiritually poor is lacking in every thing that pertains to life and godliness.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#20. People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion.

Craig Venter

#21. I'm a complete and utter busker.

Bryan Adams

#22. This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names ...

Jamaica Kincaid

#23. Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.

Rumi

#24. If the gift of God is for personal use and gain, God would have used it personally

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

Karl Malone

#26. I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

Mili Avital