Willfully Blind Quotes

#1. He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse...

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. As signs of inadequacy and weakness, they look on wealth as a source of stability and strength. Our proud hearts shrink from weakness, real or fancied, in all its forms, as we have already noted, and they embrace whatever looks like strength, including the goal and the reality of affluence. The

J.I. Packer

#3. The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

Thomas Merton

#4. I met a boy. And when he smiled, my life began.

K. Webster

#5. Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

John Heywood

#6. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you ... When it works, baby, you've got wings.

Keith Richards

#7. Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it.

Aristotle.

#9. There in the hospital Billy was having an adventure very common among people without power in times of war: he was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he is interesting to hear and see.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. He was trying to prove to a willfully deaf and blind enemy that he was interesting to hear and see.

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

Anita Baker

#12. No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God incline his heart, and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

Blaise Pascal

#13. I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

Sammy Hagar

#14. The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

Margaret Heffernan

#15. To generations of the willfully blind, true beauty can remain unseen in plain sight, but beauty sooner or later asserts itself - always, always, always - and is at last recognized, because there's so damn little of it.

Dean Koontz

#16. You're too sympathetic, the General said. You didn't see the danger in the major because he was fat and you took pity on him for that. Now the evidence shows that you've been willfully blind to the fact that Sonny is not only a left-wing radical but potentially a communist sleeper agent.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#17. Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.

Seth Klarman

#18. The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

Charles E. McKenzie

#19. The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.

Anna Quindlen

#20. Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.

Jamie Redknapp

#21. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Frank Herbert

#22. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind.

Garth Greenwell

#23. Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

Cynthia Heimel