Obvious Quotes

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They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really. Go limp and tumble to… — Tim O'Brien
Once you know the truth, it's always obvious — Jennifer Crusie
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away… — Charles Bukowski
People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with… — Kevin Hearne
You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka!… — Douglas Coupland
She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Byrn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. — Gayle Forman
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.' The handkerchief paused.… — Franny Billingsley
Since...since when?" I finally managed to ask. "Since...forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious. — Richelle Mead
You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying.… — Jeff Lindsay
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,… — C.S. Lewis
I weaned myself on the nostalgia equivalent of methadone (less addictive, less obvious, less likely to make you crazy): missing what I had never had. — Tana French
When someone starts to change, and itâ€™s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right? — Sarah Dessen
Oui, oui, he snapped with an obvious lack of awe. "Ding dong the demon's dead, now can we admire our delightful handiwork someplace where the… — Alexandra Ivy
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive… — R. D. Laing
Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and… — Lauren Oliver
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with… — Wendell Berry
I didn't answer, but, pleaseâ€”nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling. — Rick Riordan
You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious. — Lynn Viehl
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes… — Abraham Maslow

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