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Quotes About Oblivious

Keira was in America when we were having our moment in the sun in the U.K., so she was oblivious. But over the years, she came to loads of gigs and loved 'Surfing the Void.'
~ James Righton
Destroy the traces. I'd never tried to do that. Instead I'd lived in their midst for thirty years, oblivious, a blind man fancying himself invisible.
~ Jonathan Lethem
I'm blind as a bat.
~ Anna Madeley
For the most part, I keep playing big knuckleheads who are like bulls in a china shop.
~ Rob Riggle
You've got flies in your eyes. That's why you can't see them.
~ Joseph Heller
You know, that's my trouble," he groaned. "I never listen to anybody. Somebody kept telling me to put my headlights on, but I just wouldn't listen.
~ Joseph Heller
His face was a gaze of primal obtuseness.
~ James T. Farrell
People had such extraordinarily short memories, including him.
~ Douglas Adams
Lytton Gore saw nothing, noticed nothing
~ Agatha Christie
My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short with Rhonda and me that afternoon, which I attributed to the heat. I was oblivious to the mounting hostilities in our basement apartment.
~ Deval Patrick
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
~ Randy Pausch
The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
~ Randy Pausch
The problem with Israel was her compartmentalized religion. She was oblivious to the actual moral nature of her many compromises, "desensitized to desecration", as long as she kept up the outward rites of Israelite religion.
~ Ray Ortlund
Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.
~ William B. Irvine
Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
~ Dorothy Parker
You really are Captain Oblivious.
~ Lee Davidson, Satellite
He must have been one of those men who doesn't really notice such things and leaves it to others to sort out any awkwardness or imperfections. This is not because they are thoughtless or because they consider themselves too high and might, it's simply that their brains don't register these practicalities or the world around them.
~ Javier Marías
That was the way of the world they lived in. Nobody questioned, nobody wondered any more-because nobody had time to remember.
~ Edith Wharton
God tests us because we are so oblivious to the mixed allegiances in our hearts. The purpose of the test is to help us see our hearts and if they are found traitorous, we can turn back to God.
~ Edward T. Welch
Oblivious of Harlow, for whom they had all a dog's amusedly tolerant contempt for an inefficient human leader, the quintet swept away on the track.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
~ Alexander Pope
Important influences can be hidden, but even when powerful situational determinants of behavior are staring us in the face, we can be oblivious to their impact.
~ Richard E. Nisbett
You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you're clueless.
~ Rick Riordan
But sometimes the hardest things in the world to see are the ones that are right up on you.
~ Kaye Gibbons