14 Conspicuous Quotes for You to Enjoy

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. Thorstein Veblen

I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped paying attention. They accepted consistently bad behavior and rewarded it. Then they wonder why they get more bad behavior. Allen West

Denial Behavior Election Believe Consistently Conspicuous Bad Obama Bad Behavior More Attention Voters Most Accepted Were Years Wonder Get Rewarded Just Stopped Then Paying Why Acts Among Recent Recent Years

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species. Andrew H. Knoll

Life You Animal Walk Plant Plants Will Diversity Animals Types Hundred Say Several Those Out Conspicuous Thousand See Beach Fair Perhaps Most Go Huge Woods Forms Organisms Certainly Plants And Animals Species Million

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. Arthur Keith

Good Nature Men Too Our Distinctions Good Men Conspicuous Observation Between Discriminate Escape Senses Whether Races Desire Christians

Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing. Bill Bryson

Better Men Conspicuous Wear Wearing Dress Seem Hot Comfortable Always Yes American Clothing American Men Shorts Travelers British

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence. Bob Kane

Batman Strip Conspicuous Finger Absence Where Created Bill

Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation. Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Education Religion National Society Our Solely System Conspicuous Religious Never Protect Been Affiliation Ban Any Intentions Them Reassured Display

Historically, individuals possessed of the confidence that privilege and good fortune bestow have often proved conspicuous reformers: think only of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Linda Colley

Good Confidence Think Possessed Franklin Conspicuous Bestow Only Individuals Proved Historically Privilege Often Roosevelt Fortune Good Fortune

Technology loves and thrives and makes gobs of money on conspicuous consumption. Mark Goulston

Technology Money Thrive Conspicuous Consumption Makes Loves

In a sense, the rumours suggesting I had quit were true: I had retired, but only from the personal-appearance end. I did that because I had always felt conspicuous onstage, and I'm not the sort of person who likes to be an exhibitionist. Marvin Gaye

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious. Nina Easton

Confused Conspicuous Fame Gets Being Illustrious

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb. Richard Eyre

World First Big Become Think Conspicuous Collision More More And More Between Cliff Got Climb Going Third Third World

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. Thorstein Veblen

Valuable Gentleman Conspicuous Consumption Goods Leisure Means

I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God. Wendy O. Williams

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