Overt Quotes
57 quotes by 55 authors
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We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support…
— Charles M. Vest
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or…
— Harold Bloom
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The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.
— George Orwell
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Phonogram was explicitly about our world. It’s a fantasy which is happening around us all, unnoticed except for those who’ve fallen into its world. In…
— Kieron Gillen
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It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a…
— Washington Irving
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It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung…
— Louis Sullivan
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Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves there wide-overt within…
— Sri Aurobindo
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I originally wanted to embrace the imagery and forthrightness of rap music. There are some interesting, dynamic voices in rap. But I find most of…
— Yusef Komunyakaa
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The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they…
— H. L. Mencken
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We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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I never think I feel cynical in general. Cynical is reality with an alternate spelling. I feel there's a gigantic amount of injustice and overt…
— Woody Allen
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Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying…
— Maureen Dowd
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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse…
— Samuel L. Jackson
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It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
— Steve Jobs
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Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their…
— Lorraine Hansberry
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The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you.…
— Caroline Knapp
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I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal…
— Jimmy Carter
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In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow…
— William P. Young
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Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was…
— Salman Rushdie
Who Wrote These Overt Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 57 Overt Quotes, led by these top contributors: