Obvious Quotes

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One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by… — Julia Gregson
I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not… — Eric Clapton
I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to… — Nicholas Sparks
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden… — Thomas Pynchon
The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that… — Stephenie Meyer
One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they… — Ellen Gilchrist
I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your… — Anne Lamott
We ought not to be in too much of a hurry here to speak piously of Godâ€™s will and guidance. It is obvious, and it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can… — Alice Sebold
You know, honey, Natalie's expecting her second." I arched my eyebrows at my mother, not following the change of subject. "Second what? Mortgage? Conviction? Chance… — Rachel Vincent
I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to… — Ann Patchett
So I sent Halt to straighten matters out. Thought it might be a good idea to give him something to keep him busy." So what's… — John Flanagan
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. — Sarah Dessen
As usual, the note occupied less than a page and included neither salutation nor closing, Uncle Hal's opinion being that since the letter had a… — Diana Gabaldon
[Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this." The reaction in the room was swift, and unanimous: every single person… — Sarah Dessen
Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through… — Chinua Achebe
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, itâ€™s not its fault. Thatâ€™s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought:… — Arthur Rimbaud
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. — Sigmund Freud

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