Conspicuously Quotes
36 quotes by 29 authors
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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the…
— Ian Anderson
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On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific…
— David Lack
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law…
— Robert Breault
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It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.
— Murray Rothbard
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The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor…
— William Holmes McGuffey
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If Nick Broomfield never found anyone with affection for Courtney Love, it's only because he conspicuously avoided the countless friends, colleagues and fans who appreciate…
— Edward Norton
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Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making.
— Steve Mirsky
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Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death.…
— Robert Greene
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Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the…
— B. C. Forbes
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Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.
— Clara Winston
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I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally in the creative…
— Emanuel Lasker
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From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.
— William Holmes McGuffey
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PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrage of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that…
— James Monroe
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We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are…
— Margaret Mead
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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
— Mark Twain
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