Obtrude Quotes

#1. The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with' only to discover that they are still there.

Ingrid Bengis

#2. She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#3. Of course you have always been an idealist, and filled with your optimistic dreams; but reality must at some time obtrude, and you are now turned thirty.

Margaret Atwood

#4. Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#5. Horrors of a nature most stern and most appalling would too frequently obtrude themselves upon my mind, and shake the innermost depths of my soul with the bare supposition of their possibility.

Edgar Allan Poe

#6. Thus content with an inner sphere which they inhabit together, it is not immediately that the outward world can obtrude itself upon their notice.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#7. I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

John Keats

#9. In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler's increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

Paul Lafargue

#10. This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.

Clark Gable

#11. When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

George Steiner

#12. First I tried some Neil Diamond, thinking that if anything was going to make the undead run for the hills it would be a nice, loud rendition of Cracklin' Rosie. But those coldsickles actually seemed to enjoy it. Very disturbing.

Mike Cooley

#13. Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

Sri Chinmoy

#14. What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

William Inge

#15. Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life ... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend.

Dave Kellett

#16. For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

Winston Churchill