It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I". — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true . — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Commitment. That's what it's all about. Taking that convenant together. Bonding yourselves for all eternity. Isn't that what we are all looking… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
...it is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear… — Syun-Ichi Akasofu Copy Share Image
In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
It’s dead obvious that creationism isn’t science, or even bad science. It’s nonsense. But I’ve long stated it’s also bad religion, because… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
It's how I learned to play guitar - sitting with Led Zeppelin and Cheap Trick records, backing the needle up and learning… — Tad Kubler Copy Share Image
When you see a knife, fork and a spoon it seems to me like there are two of them together on one… — Richard McGuire Copy Share Image
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
I think it was pretty obvious early on that we had both come with kind of the same attitude of "Let's just… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
To this day, we see all around us the Promethean drive to omnipotence through technology and to omniscience through science. The effecting… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action. — Carter Heyward Copy Share Image
The most obvious things are often right there, but you don't think about them because you've narrowed your vision. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services. — Jim McKelvey Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.' — John Ridley Copy Share Image
It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
I don't know why people are so reluctant to say they're feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image