Non Overt Quotes

#1. I like the idea of men's tailoring on girls. It's very strong and sexy in a non-overt way.

Thom Browne

#2. His overt wildness should have deterred her interest, but it had the opposite effect. She wanted something. To know him. To have some claim to him.

Harper St. George

#3. If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Daniel Ellsberg

#4. 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 United States.

Robert Dallek

#5. I suspect unconscious bias has been far more of a factor for President Obama than overt racism and will also be a challenge for Hillary Rodham Clinton if she runs for president again.

Nicholas Kristof

#6. There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

Dennis Prager

#7. The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

B.F. Skinner

#8. The passive and overt violence waged against the women and children of the world must end.

Bryant McGill

#9. 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

#10. Bhutto's case was not a trial of murder, rather it was the overt murder of a trial -

Fatima Bhutto

#11. I have very distinct things that I like. I have very distinct opinions. Just because I choose to be a little less overt out on the campaign [trail] doesn't mean I'm anything less than very opinionated and very intelligent.

Cindy McCain

#12. The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. It begins in the mind and may be present where no overt act of worship has taken place.

A.W. Tozer

#13. It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

Charles Evans Hughes

#14. The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt - because the system is good at hiding it.

Elizabeth Banks

#15. There is no overt rivalry among our children.

Martin Milner

#16. Racial caste systems do not require racial hostility or overt bigotry to thrive. They need only racial indifference, as Martin Luther King Jr. warned more than forty-five years ago.

Michelle Alexander

#17. It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.

James Jesus Angleton

#18. Because we often think of bias as a function of overt acts of bigotry, we can sometimes remain blind to the invisible structures, systems, and behaviors that bestow and reinforce that power and privilege on a daily basis.

Howard J. Ross

#19. 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 pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.

Judd Rose

#20. The speaker indicts our unbelieving responses to Jesus' COMMAND not to worry. We take it less seriously than His commands about overt actions and justify ourselves that we would not worry if He kept us from any circumstance we might worry about.

Jim Savastio

#21. Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt.

Mary Balogh

#22. I've had a lot of things rendered as not being effective or as some indication of my lack of sanity, only to be praised ten, fifteen, twenty years later for what I did once in this overt consciousness.

Billy Corgan

#23. 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 as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.

Louis Sullivan

#24. I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again.

Aleksandra Mir

#25. Are traditional schools very much like mini-prisons? Do they stifle imagination, cramp the child physically and mentally, and run on various forms of overt or covert terrorism? Of course, the answer is an unambiguous YES.

Robert Anton Wilson

#26. 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 entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs.

Hilary Mantel

#27. Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.

George Takei

#28. Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

Walter Bagehot

#29. How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

Joaquin Phoenix

#30. The dynamics of the Roman Christian creed is an oscillating maneuver between covert and overt Polytheisms; between Modalism and Partialism.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#31. 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 than someone coming in your house and lynching you.

Samuel L. Jackson

#32. Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Ralph Ellison