“To avoid surprises later, spend enough time to know people initially. Don't just ask the obvious. Go the extra mile... Be creative… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
All my favourite pop songs are the most stupid ones, the ones that are the most obvious. — Charli XCX Copy Share Image
I write blatantly obvious songs with blatantly obvious details, and then I'm like NO! when they find out, I dunno what's wrong… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
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
I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
We all grow up with anger. It's part of the human condition. But what do you do with that? It seems obvious… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have.… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something… — Edwin Meese Copy Share Image
The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears… — Sandra Fluke Copy Share Image
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical… — Jon Landau 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
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
Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It's useful to be born in a different culture because you see things that are not obvious. I come from France. In… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
My being Indian is possibly the biggest thing that influences my stories. Not just in terms of settings - most of the… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
I think I'm just as good as anyone. That's the way I was brought up. I'll tell you a secret: I think… — Annie Elizabeth Delany Copy Share Image
Before our eyes we have the results of ideologies such as Marxism, Nazism and fascism, and also of myths like racial superiority,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not. — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, 'God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'. — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you —… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
That I am not my experiences is very obvious. I am the one who is having those experiences. Spirituality has nothing to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
What seems obvious to one person wouldn't occur to another. Your perspective is hard coded into the work that you create. — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way,… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will… — George Duke Copy Share Image
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career It has turned out a whole lot better than I ever, ever, ever dreamed. — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image