Overt Quotes

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The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical… — Robert A. Heinlein
Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. — Ralph Ellison
It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you. — John Kennedy Toole
As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate… — T.D. Jakes
We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations… — William Hazlitt
From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the… — Robert Dallek
Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the… — Barack Obama
Most Southern soldiers viewed the driving issue to be sovereignty rather than slavery. Love of the Union was palpably stronger in the South than in… — Jim Webb
There is no overt rivalry among our children. — Martin Milner
Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. — Ralph Ellison
I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement. — Lena Dunham
Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My… — Hilary Mantel
Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication… — Steven Erikson
I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because… — Ralph Fiennes
In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just… — Judd Rose
The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overt hrowing them exists… — Ellen Louise Demorest

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