Obvious Quotes

1416 Obvious quotes by 1124 unique authors

Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent resistance against the… — Noam Chomsky
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly,… — Grant Morrison
Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stoop, would be alarming… — Michael J. Fox
I’ve never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It’s more interesting… — Alfred Hitchcock
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was… — June Jordan
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of… — Lawrence Kohlberg
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that… — Georges Bernanos
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly… — Desmond Tutu
One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist,… — T. Colin Campbell
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. — C.S. Lewis
Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of… — Edwin A. Locke
A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of… — Sam Vaknin
The whole world knows that American TV companies have monopolized Olympic broadcasts and in order to please the fans in their country they do everything… — Unknown Author
There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to… — Unknown Author
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that… — Cynthia Ozick
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". — Alan Perlis
We are aware that it is said, that woman is virtually represented in Parliament, her interests being the same as those of man; but the… — Unknown Author
People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a… — Larry Carlton
Remember: if the most unique ideas were obvious to everyone, there wouldn’t be entrepreneurs. The one thing that every entrepreneurial journey has in common is… — Tory Burch
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its continued viability. It… — Unknown Author
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you… — Mike Royko
As Day and other observers had reported, the slaves were leading very comfortable lives. After this tactic [slave rebellions in the South] failed, it became… — Eustace Mullins

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