If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
To me, there's two definitions of feminism. One is that you believe that women are equal human beings; that's not really a… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money… — Ruben Blades Copy Share Image
There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It's not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we'll understand better what we… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.' 'Then you'll be able to distinguish me from Rose.'… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I had been DJing a dance night in Brooklyn and witnessed the response people had to "The Devil's Dancers" - Oppenheimer's one… — Veronica Vasicka Copy Share Image
The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead… — Roger A. Pielke Copy Share Image
One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Um…” Simon started slowly “at the risk of stating the obvious I feel I have to point out that Interpol has the… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire,… — Ronnie Montrose Copy Share Image
The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate:… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Diplomatic eminences often natter on about preventive action, making the obvious point that it's better to cure festering ills before they metastasize… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious. This is true… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I guess it's not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and… — Bruce Barnbaum Copy Share Image
Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is this difference between the two temporal blessings - health and money; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions… — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
There are hidden contradictions in the minds of people who "love Nature" while deploring the "artificialities" with which "Man has spoiled Nature.'"… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another… — Danica Patrick Copy Share Image
What I'm really more interested in doing - because I think, in a way that's kind of obvious - and you can… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image