The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards...… — Francis Maude Copy Share Image
The climate system is being pushed hard enough that change will become obvious to the man in the street in the next… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I leave the camera on the obvious special effects, like the rubber bodies, so that it become obvious… — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news… — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
It is pretty damn obvious that there are positive impacts of climate change, even though we are not always allowed to talk… — Richard Tol Copy Share Image
“The truth sounds so obvious when it is coming from someone who is not trying to hiu=de it.” — Gerry Burnie Copy Share Image
I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will… — Calvin Ayre Copy Share Image
It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship… — James Robison Copy Share Image
Engineers are now experimenting with 4,096-line TV systems, suggesting that with the next generation of sets you'll be able to count the… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the… — Jerry Uelsmann Copy Share Image
Artemis looked at Holly and felt a tremendous affection for her... he could properly appreciate how fierce and beautiful his best friend… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
The power of the Web is obvious and undeniable. We diminish it at our peril. But what if the most potent social… — Daniel Henninger Copy Share Image
It's pretty obvious there's a lot of corruption in the world right now. That takes many forms. There's economic, political, religious, social… — Mark McGwire Copy Share Image
I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We didn’t deny the obvious, but we didn’t entirely accept it either. I mean, we said hello to it each morning in… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He… — David E. Sorensen Copy Share Image
It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
For all the sophistication of GPS, there still remain numerous problems with their use. The most obvious problem in this context is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
What is like a smelly fart, that, although invisible is obvious? One's own faults, that are precisely As obvious as the effort… — 7th Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next. — David Brin Copy Share Image
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious… — Jan Chipchase Copy Share Image
It is obvious that all sense has gone out of modern marriage; which is, however, no objection to marriage but to modernity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to be able to take singles, serve them up to radio on a silver platter and just have them smoke… — Lari White Copy Share Image
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
![“I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress…” quote by Mitch McConnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a2d/mitch-mcconnell-2153_accurate_i-think-there-were-two-messages-in-last_1572393.jpg)
