86 Blatant Quotes

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Famous Blatant Quotes

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. - Isaac Asimov

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. — Isaac Asimov

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. - Kahlil Gibran

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. — Kahlil Gibran

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics. — Eric Temple Bell

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace. — Baldassare Castiglione

Paradoxical, things that seem obvious, broad consensus — Howard Marks

In art, the obvious is a sin. — Edward Dmytryk

Truth is always straightforward. — Sophocles

The obvious is always least understood. - Klemens Von Metternich

The obvious is always least understood. — Klemens Von Metternich

There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious. — Wei Wu Wei

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories — George Eliot

I am at war with the obvious. — William Eggleston

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. — Madeleine L'Engle

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops. - Natalie Clifford Barney

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops. — Natalie Clifford Barney

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. — Mahatma Gandhi

The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing. — Emma Bonino

Short Blatant Quotes

  • Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery. — Sathya Sai Baba
  • Actors come up and just blatantly hit on my wife in front of me and don't even look at me. — Chris Pratt
  • As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science. — Louise Slaughter
  • I like being able to have things that identify you in a brand without blatantly showing a logo. — Shaun White
  • One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind. — Thomas S. Monson
  • I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin' — Nas
  • Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property. — Michael Badnarik
  • Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry. — Rob Bishop
  • But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me. — Laura Prepon
  • Sin is blatant mutiny against God. — Oswald Chambers

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Insulting A Girl Quotes

If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die. — Vivian Balakrishnan

Hey, look your girlfriend is saying something. Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl? — Eoin Colfer

I wasn’t sure if I was charmed by his reluctance to share a bed with a girl or insulted that, apparently, I wasn’t hot enough for him to charge the mattress like a bull. — Maggie Stiefvater

When my reputation was at its height, classmates insulted me right to my face as I walked down the hall. When a teacher called on me, boys snickered and girls rolled their eyes. My body and face burned. I felt mortified. I contemplated suicide. — Leora Tanenbaum

I hate to see a guy who insults a girl or is bad with her. Immediately I think she would be better if she was with me. — Niall Horan

What do you mean, a ghost? The Honorable James Augustus Peregrine Pympoole-Bothame, heir to the fourteenth Earl of Hardsdale, is taking no insults from young girls! — Kerstin Gier

Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult? — Tamora Pierce

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult. — Orson Scott Card

Blatant Lies Quotes

There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research. — Virginia Foxx

It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic. — Stanley B. Goldenberg

The more the concept of reason becomes emasculated, the more easily it lends itself to ideological manipulation and to propagation of even the most blatant lies. ... Subjective reason conforms to anything. — Max Horkheimer

If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with his Corinthian readers by lying so blatantly. — Norman Geisler

Love couldn't be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies-skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn't deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction, love owned you all the same. — Rachel Wade

One still strong man in a blatant land,whatever they call him, what care I,Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat - oneWho can rule and dare not lie. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I love talking about the Kennedy assassination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. — Bill Hicks

As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them. — Lana Del Rey

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More Blatant Quotes

Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality. — D. James Kennedy

Instead of accepting Elon's premium to the share price, Twitter's board is planning to dilute the company by giving insiders a sweetheart deal. This is a blatant violation of fiduciary duty and should be illegal. — David O. Sacks

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. — Thomas Sowell

Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil. — Hutton Gibson

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you. — Tim Ferriss

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. — Kurt Huber

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist! — Charles Studd

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand. — Jason Patric

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. — Carl Jung

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me. — Sidney Poitier

The G7 and former G8 group has always viewed itself as a community of values, the annexation of Crimea, which is a blatant violation of the principles of international law, and the events in eastern Ukraine are serious violations of these common values. — Angela Merkel

The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. — Harold Pinter

Now people want Brian Williams to resign, but it could have a happy ending. Apparently what he said was such a blatant departure from the truth, today he got an offer from Fox News. — Bill Maher

[Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. Our wars are therefore "holy" wars. With all due respect, this is blatant idolatry. — Gregory A. Boyd

Apostasy occurs when a church leaves its historic moorings, abandons its historic confessional position, and degenerates into a state where either essential Christian truths are blatantly denied or the denial of such truths is widely tolerated. — R. C. Sproul

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter. — Corrie Ten Boom

There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have "invented" the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds. — Vandana Shiva

Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and homophobic tendencies. Don't listen to these people, Larry. They're just bitter and jealous and right. — Greg Giraldo

Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as. — Maya Angelou

We're [with Ilana Glazer] both totally upfront and proud feminists. We're not being all secretive about it. I feel like we're pretty blatant in our approach. — Ilana Glazer

The message from history is so blatantly obvious - that free trade causes mutual prosperity while protectionism causes poverty - that it seems incredible that anybody ever thinks otherwise. There is not a single example of a country opening its borders to trade and ending up poorer. — Matt Ridley

It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism. — Bertrand Russell

This terrible tragedy.... the entire international community should unite in the struggle against terrorism this is a blatant challenge to humanity. — Vladimir Putin

I loved the idea of doing something that has this misconception about what stewardesses were. And, I also love the idea that these girls were navigating a blatantly misogynistic society, with the girdle checks and make-up checks. — Christina Ricci

This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio. — Kenny Marchant

Sometimes men present a swagger that suggests a prowess, whether it's sexual or financial. L.A. seems to be a place where trying too hard is almost a given. Some people are unapologetic about how blatantly they represent who they are through what they wear or drive. Subtlety is in short supply. — Michael C. Hall

'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest greenhouse gas from their equations. How can such egregious calculation errors be so blatantly ignored? This is why man-made global warming is 'junk' science. — Michael Myers

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach. — Jimmy Carter

America is a former slave state and a blatantly racist society, so the war on drugs, which is managed by white supremacists, was and is directed against blacks and other despised minorities as a way of keeping them disenfranchised. — Douglas Valentine

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