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Quotes About Overlooked

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.
~ Mindy Kaling
I bet there are still many openings and loopholes in art history ... which are being overlooked right now by millions of young people who complain that everything has already been done, so that they cannot do new breakthroughs. However, the history of the world says that we don't win the games, but we change the rules of the games.
~ Nam June Paik
This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there.
~ Naomi Alderman
Everyone is invisible to someone.
~ Unknown
The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
~ Neville Cardus
There's sometimes an impulse to pit the suffering of the white working class against that of African Americans or members of other minority groups. That is a mistake. Government policies have poorly served the working class of every complexion, and we need solidarity rather than strife among those so overlooked.
~ Nicholas D. Kristof
There were advantages to being ignored by the king.
~ Nicola Griffith
They don't listen to me, they don't hear me, they don't see me.
~ Nikolai Gogol
The world is full of remarkable people whose amazing work often goes unnoticed or doesn't get the attention it deserves.
~ Unknown
And it still goes on. And we still turn away.
~ Unknown
The confessional writer will treat her story like a wailing wall. She kneels, and her story spills out, messy, improper. It isn't a protest or even graffiti, but her story is an offering of things that she overlooked or notices that others have overlooked. She is in danger of exposure but she remembers when she lived in hiding and that was worse. She cannot turn back now because this is how life has spun out of her, part vexing passage and part prayer.
~ Unknown
But when Samuel Berkovic finally found the answer to the question of what had actually caused the problem, no one noticed. Not a single newspaper, magazine, or radio or television program carried the story.
~ Paul A. Offit
Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
~ Acts 17:30