Obvious Quotes

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Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of solarmagnetic activity. ...… — Nigel Weiss
It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act… — Greg Nickels
It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that… — Leo Tolstoy
Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's… — Milton Friedman
Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively. — Rene Dubos
An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple. — Jay Abraham
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of… — Charles Edward Merriam
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons,… — James Madison
Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul -… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation. — Guy Steele
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in… — Barbara Ehrenreich
One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't… — Georges Courteline
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his… — Max Beerbohm
Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious. — Virginia Woolf
While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many… — J.P. Moreland
I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible. — Erik Spiekermann
You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they… — Cheryl Rainfield
I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and engaging, and then you realize what you're looking at is… — Cindy Sherman
I love working with Erica [Durance]. She's so much fun. And I love how flippant, comfortable, and casual the relationship is. There is so much… — Allison Mack
Only recently Iâ€™ve learned, itâ€™s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize — David Archuleta

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