Obvious Quotes

1416 Obvious quotes by 1124 unique authors

The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this - justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be… — James Fitzjames Stephen
There exists a "fear of freedom" of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious… — James A.C. Brown
The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed… — Matthew Scully
All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the… — Quentin Crisp
No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out,… — Trey Parker
The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive — Stefan Molyneux
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. Thanks to number, the cry becomes a song, noise acquires rhythm, the… — Joseph de Maistre
I had a plot connection that nobody understood for this fourth character, and decided, Oh, nobody gets it, that's all. I'll write another draft to… — Richard Greenberg
What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the… — Alan Ayckbourn
America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If… — Charles M. Vest
The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man. — Joseph de Maistre
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the… — Michael Herr
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual… — Aristotle
People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely… — Scott Berkun
We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right… — Philip K. Dick
So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it.… — Tony Kushner
I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records. — Boy George
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. — Paul Muldoon
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as… — H.G. Wells
For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe… — Larry Page
With short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. Short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with… — Joan Juliet Buck
The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to… — Eugene H. Peterson
I ask the reader to remember that what is most obvious may be most worthy of analysis. Fertile vistas may open out when commonplace facts… — Lancelot Law Whyte
Why all of these broken homes? What happens to marriages that begin with sincere love and a desire to be loyal and faithful and true… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry… — Paul Krugman

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