“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Nutrition science, however, suggests that golden rice alone will not greatly diminish vitamin A defi-ciency and associated blindness. [”¦] People whose diets… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
“The whistling dawn, the sussurration of the leaves, a honking goose, and then a sentimental confab at the Solid Rock Gospel Church… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me,… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger, and so… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Everything has to be understood in opposition to something else. For some dang reason, the ego prefers to make one side better… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
A man without the Holy Ghost is a blind man. He may not know it but that's what blindness is all about.… — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
“I chanced on a wonderful book by Marius von Senden, called Space and Sight. . . . For the newly sighted, vision… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's better not to see. Sometimes it's better to have a choice.” — Kevin Crossley-Holland Copy Share Image