“Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind faith. (Dawkins says) ‘Scientific… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
If I were deaf, I'll hear your laughter through your smile. If I were mute, I'll speak to you through your eyes.… — Lindsey Copy Share Image
In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The sea, tasted, drunk away, dreamed away. An hour soul-eclipsed. The next, an autumn light, offered up to a blind feeling which… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive… — Tim Willocks Copy Share Image
The difference between deafness and any other disability is that there is no way to put yourself in a position of knowing… — Richard Masur Copy Share Image
To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“What are you afraid of then?' She pondered. He had already noticed that it was her hands which indicated what she was… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest… — John Reid Copy Share Image
I tried all in my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, for twelve years I worked night and day… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“...so much has been laid on the sunset—heavy-handed metaphors, sentimental music. Everyone’s always walking into them, and that is some very intense… — Kirk Farber Copy Share Image
They are wrong who say that love is blind. On the contrary, nothing - not even the smallest detail - escapes the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Meditation opens the doors of your inner treasures, what Jesus calls the kingdom of god. Meditation is only a key, and keys… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Life brings what it brings. I might be young but I've learnt this: prepare for each blind corner with your strongest shoulder… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“I have been in my bed for five weeks, oppressed with weakness and other infirmities from which my age, seventy four years,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Patriotic feelings will surely swell, prompting proud proclamations of the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice shared by the Framers and reflected… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive...… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the kind of Catholic situation up until I was about eleven years old, which was that God… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In spite of their friendship, they were so far apart, the bowstring was so taut between them: a seeing man and a… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I wish I could remember the first day, First hour, first moment of your meeting me; If bright or dim the season… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image