Obvious Quotes · Page 16

“Nothing is obvious in itself. Obviousness is subjective.”

— Rex Stout

Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.

— John Flanagan

People didn't see me as a traditional kids' TV presenter, for very obvious reasons.

— Richard Bacon

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

— Ezekiel Emanuel

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

— Jerry Uelsmann

Determine where you are going and how you will get there will become obvious.

— Marshall Sylver

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

— Estelle

Be nice to each other. Not a lot, but seems like the most obvious thing.

— Lenny Jacobson

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

— Ugo Betti

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

— Scott Adams

It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

— Larry Wall

It is obvious that it is nice for any player to know he is wanted by a team like Barcelona, with Guardiola…

— David Trezeguet

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious…

— Brett Favre

There's been an obvious shift in that it is now uncomfortable for a white actor to black up.

— Adrian Lester

repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

— Marianne Moore

I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide the fact that I'm a girl, ever.…

— Danica Patrick

The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry…

— Zac Goldsmith

To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly…

— Dallas Willard

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly…

— Lydia Davis

When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as…

— Robert Lewis Hinkle

Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes…

— Sugata Mitra

Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play…

— Bill Maher

When I was four I joined a group of girls who were talking about their party dresses. I thought they were imagining,…

— Martha Nussbaum

Early on, girls begin to menstruate, which is dramatic but not obvious to their playmates. They grow taller and rounder, but underneath…

— Frank Pittman

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st…

— Thomas Friedman

I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The…

— Doris Lessing

What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen…

— Jan Chozen Bays

I think it's worth trying to do something about obvious sources of stress in your life. But even more important is learning…

— Andrew Weil

The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow -…

— Alphonse Daudet

The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living,…

— William Howard Taft

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

— Gordon W. Allport

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

— Jeff Bezos

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

— Viktor Korchnoi

There's so many ways to play a bad guy, and usually people choose the obvious one.

— Jason Statham

It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies.

— Cindy Sheehan

I don't tend to write when I'm happy, which I think is pretty obvious.

— Aubrie Sellers

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.

— Dick Gregory

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

— Walter Darby Bannard