Glaring Quotes
88 Glaring quotes by 74 unique authors
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The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the bonds of injustice…
— Pope Francis
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The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace…
— Pope John XXIII
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Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question…
— Thomas Carlyle
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A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people…
— Emma Goldman
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There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
— William Hazlitt
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You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just…
— John Lydon
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I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure…
— Sarah McLachlan
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Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'
— Dee Dee Myers
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'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the…
— Susan Orlean
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For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.
— Ernest Becker
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That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be…
— Thomas Hardy
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For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./…
— Homer
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I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to…
— Sarah Vowell
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I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
— Sylvia Plath
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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have…
— Ellen Hopkins
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In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed…
— Patrick Süskind
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers…
— Henry Miller
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[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and…
— Pascal Mercier
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Hey!" I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. "I was talking to him!" Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. "No,…
— Mira Grant
Who Wrote These Glaring Quotes
74 authors contributed a total of 88 Glaring Quotes, led by these top contributors: