Quotes of Conspicuous - somelinesforyou

“ One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives. ”

- Mark Twain

“ One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful. ”

- Ninon de Lenclos

“ Wit is an unruly engine, wildly striking sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer. ”

- George Herbert

“ There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. ”

- Larry Wall

“ Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked "Take it or leave it. ". ”

- Arthur Seldon

“ If all sane men were marked with chalk, and the insane with charcoal, there would soon be a scarcity of chalk. ”

- Horace

“ Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game! ”

- Babe Ruth

“ The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible. ”

- Rumi

“ Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work. ”

- Noel Thomas David Gallagher

“ There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“ One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. ”

- Goethe

“ Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. ”

- Nicolaus Copernicus

“ I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow. ”

- Franz Grillparzer

“ Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ We are all born marked for evil. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ They don't have as many weapons. They had an inside threat in Hagen, and Robinson spread the defense outside. Now Grier's a marked man. ”

- Bruce Weber

“ All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence. ”

- Timothy Radcliffe

“ Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ”

- Earl Nightingale

“ Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. ”

- Babe Ruth

“ Hands are always conspicuous, and if used carelessly, they'll always detract, never be a plus to the enhancement of personality. ”

- Loretta Young

“ Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.'. ”

- Walter Bagehot

“ One should be of service rather than be conspicuous. ”

- Motto
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