„So, blind to Someone
I must be.“

„Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.“

—  Neal Shusterman, книга Unwind

Источник: Unwind

„The ignorant and blind must always be guided or led; the blind have no choice but the ignorant who are content with their deficient knowledge, eventually become blind.“

—  Gandolfo

2016

„The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.“

—  Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886

„I'm just a Rock and Roll Rebel,
I tell you no lies,
they say I worship the devil,
they must be stupid or blind“

—  Ozzy Osbourne English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter 1948

Rock and Roll Rebel, written by Ozzy Osbourne.
Song lyrics, Bark at the Moon (1983)

„So strange is Chance, so blind the purposes of men!“

—  Statius, книга Thebaid

Добавить примечание: (la) Pro fors et caeca futuri
mens hominum!
Источник: Thebaid, Book V, Line 718 (tr. J. H. Mozley)

„I want someone to love me, for who I am;
I want someone to need me, is that so bad?“

—  Nick Jonas American singer 1992

Song Who I Am

„There is none so blind as they that won't see.“

—  Jonathan Swift Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667 - 1745

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 3

„It could go on and on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must.“

—  Gerald Ford American politician, 38th President of the United States (in office from 1974 to 1977) 1913 - 2006

1970s, Remarks on pardoning Nixon (1974)
Контексте: I have asked your help and your prayers, not only when I became President but many times since. The Constitution is the supreme law of our land and it governs our actions as citizens. Only the laws of God, which govern our consciences, are superior to it.
As we are a nation under God, so I am sworn to uphold our laws with the help of God. And I have sought such guidance and searched my own conscience with special diligence to determine the right thing for me to do with respect to my predecessor in this place, Richard Nixon, and his loyal wife and family.
Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must.

„For once in my life
I have someone who needs me,
Someone I needed so long.“

—  Stevie Wonder American musician 1950

For Once In My Life
Song lyrics

„And someone that brilliant must be a devil?“

—  Gordon R. Dickson, книга Dorsai!

queried Galt, dryly.
“Not at all,” explained Donal, patiently. “But having such intellectual capabilities, a man must show proportionately greater inclinations toward either good or evil than lesser people. If he tends toward evil, he may mask it in himself—he may even mask its effect on the people with which he surrounds himself. But he has no way of producing the reflections of good which would ordinarily be reflected from his lieutenants and initiates—and which, if he was truly good—he would have no reason to try and hide. And by that lack, you can read him.”
“Mercenary II” (section 4, p. 386)
Dorsai! (1960)

„I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold,—
His eyes are in his mind.“

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772 - 1834

To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

„Where were all these blind people? Why didn’t we see them walking on our roads? I decided I must be the one to make a difference.“

—  Tiffany Brar Indian Social Activist 1988

As quoted in They Say the Blind Should Not Lead the Blind. She Proves Them Wrong. https://www.thebetterindia.com/40485/tiffany-brar-working-for-blind/ (December 22, 2015) by Ranjini Sivaswamy, The Better India.

„6172. Who so blind as he,
That will not see?“

—  Thomas Fuller (writer) British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654 - 1734

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

„There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.“

—  Paul Bourget French writer 1852 - 1935

Источник: Cosmopolis (1892), Ch. 5 "Countess Steno"

„I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.“

—  Glenn Beck U.S. talk radio and television host 1964

Источник: The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life

„And eternity is a long time. So if you have to spend it with someone I could see wanting to spend it with someone impossible… but interesting….“

—  Meg Cabot Novelist 1967

Источник: Abandon

„It must be hard just to be someone's girlfriend.“

—  Alice Evans British actress 1971

Alice in Ioan land - icWales http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/2003/09/05/alice-in-ioan-land-91466-13371356/ By Karen Price, 5 September 2003.

„Current Catholic worship often ignores the essential connection between truth and beauty, body and soul, at the center of the Catholic worldview. The Church requires that we be faithful, but must we also be deaf, dumb, and blind? I deserve to suffer for my sins, but must so much of that punishment take place in church?“

—  Dana Gioia American writer 1950

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Essays, Can Poetry Matter? (1991), The Catholic Writer Today (2013)

„I was quiet, but I was not blind.“

—  Jane Austen, книга Mansfield Park

Источник: Mansfield Park