Obvious Quotes
1416 quotes by 1165 authors
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Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
— Claude Chabrol
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I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.
— Lee Child
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It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic…
— Noam Chomsky
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I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.
— John Henrik Clarke
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I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy…
— Piers Anthony
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
— Lupita Nyong'o
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What is like a smelly fart, that, although invisible is obvious? One's own faults, that are precisely As obvious as the effort made to hide…
— 7th Dalai Lama
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Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on is…
— Philip Kapleau
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It's not that I'm deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I'm just doing things that are obvious to me. It's because the public…
— Takafumi Horie
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Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the…
— Tony Hoare
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"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way
— Victoria Beckham
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Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is…
— Scarlett Johansson
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Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer…
— Gregg Easterbrook
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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what…
— Abhinavagupta
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