Jasper Fforde Quotes
I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
Jasper Fforde
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
Federica Montseny
Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
Omar Dorsey
I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
Rachel Lambert Mellon
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ralph Ellison
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
The flip side of humiliation is pride.
Gary Weiss
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Pasquier Quesnel
The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.
Dan Wakefield
I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
Patrick Ness
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
Samuel Adams
Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.
Saint Francis de Sales
All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will
William Butler Yeats
Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?
George du Maurier
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
Ornette Coleman
I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
Jasper Fforde
