Obvious Quotes
1416 quotes by 1124 authors
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Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?†“My boy!†he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious.…
— Robin Sloan
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He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they…
— Neal Shusterman
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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.
— John Scalzi
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I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder…
— Gayle Forman
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What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly…
— Sigmund Freud
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It wasn't about how she looked, which was pretty, even though she was always wearing the wrong clothes and those beat-up sneakers. It wasn't about…
— Kami Garcia
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The people of the world, all of them, whether it is the different race or the different language or the different lifestyle, tend to only…
— Naoko Takeuchi
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Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she…
— Ally Carter
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
— Oscar Wilde
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Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the…
— Terry Pratchett
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I—I didn't think—" "That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few miles away on…
— Michael Grant
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If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups:…
— Gayle Forman
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It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don't…
— Kami Garcia
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
— Ted Dekker
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I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
— David Foster Wallace
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Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero,…
— Rachel Vincent
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