Top 19 Quotes About Being Conspicuous

#1. If you can't fly, run; if you can't run, walk; if you can't walk, crawl.-Martin Luther King

Chrissie Wellington

#2. My precious brothers and sisters, I come to you today speaking on behalf of Christ, His love and His mercy for us all. Jesus came to set the captives free. And He Himself said that whoever the Son sets free, is free indeed ... We love you with Christ's love, unconditionally and always.

K.P. Yohannan

#3. Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#5. Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

Carlos Fuentes

#6. I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months ... She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [ Paronnaud] and myself.

Marjane Satrapi

#7. We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#8. Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.

Nina Easton

#9. Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. Be yourself-but don't be conspicuous.

Fred Astaire

#11. Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. There are fashions in saying things just as there are fashions in clothes. You wear what other people are wearing not so much because it's attractive but so as not to be conspicuous; so you can go on bind yourself underneath without being noticed too much.

Christopher Morley

#13. I did feel funny about being fair and having red hair and freckles. I did not like that because I grew up in a neighbourhood where no one had red hair. I felt very conspicuous but not in a nice way.

Patti Scialfa

#14. Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.

Robert Kennedy

#15. You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#16. Energy is the prime mover of all we see and know. You change the energy and your body has to respond.

Christiane Northrup

#17. Bernard had become, not so much important to her as he was natural to her whole being. He was as much a part of her thoughts as breath, food, and sleep. At once present and not present, conspicuous with his absence and filling her with a sense of completion when he was there.

Jim Butcher

#18. I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat some meat. I try to know where everything comes from, though. And all bets are off if my husband and I go to a really great restaurant.

Lauren Bowles

#19. Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons.

Owen Wister

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