Unobtrusive Quotes

23 Unobtrusive quotes by 21 unique authors

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that… — David Attenborough
The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac
Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully we become aware… — Henri Nouwen
He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that… — Walter Russell
A man's style should be like his dress. It should be as unobtrusive and should attract as little attention as possible. — C. E. M. Joad
Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived Is consistent down… — Dieter Rams
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental… — Thomas Eakins
When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving. — Laozi
Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some of the greatest… — Henri Nouwen
The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time… — Mark Twain
The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat… — Terry Tempest Williams
Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background… — Leatrice Eiseman
There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing… — Allan Bloom
Real greatness is often hidden, humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. We must have… — Henri Nouwen
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the… — Benjamin Cardozo
Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace… — Emily Dickinson
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget… — Joan Didion
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with… — John Keats
Turn right up ahead," he directed. "It'll take us directly to my cottage." She did as he asked. "Does your cottage have a name?" "My… — Julia Quinn
The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs;… — C.S. Lewis
I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The… — Sharon Shinn
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth:… — J.R.R. Tolkien
People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally… — Whitfield Diffie

Who Wrote These Unobtrusive Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 23 Unobtrusive Quotes as follows: