Just because something makes sense after the fact doesn't…

Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble…

— Alice Sebold

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious…

— Ansel Adams

When you look around the room during meetings and practice, you see that everyone has the same goal. It's obvious by the way that…

— Eric Kendricks

Angela Merkel has been focused on the right things. She has focused on the interests of her citizens - and not just in a…

— Justin Trudeau

You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly…

— William Goldman

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.

— Dale Carnegie

The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be…

— Jessica Valenti

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our…

— William Wilberforce

“Believe me when I tell you that there is no lie quite so obvious as the one where you try to protest that you…

— nigel slater

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

— Anthony Daniels

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

— Terry McMillan

I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't…

— Stephen Baldwin

We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the…

— Annie Dillard