Obvious Quotes

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The first time, I usually skim off the outer layer and end up with photographs that are fairly obvious. The second time, I have to… — Michael Kenna
It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to… — Elon Musk
I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any… — Merton Miller
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse... by Floyd Gottfredson will be warmly received by comics aficionados but should also intrigue Disney animation buffs who aren’t necessarily plugged… — Leonard Maltin
I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of… — Beth Richardson Gutcheon
Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to… — E. M. Forster
The less obvious hurdle is that of preparing parents emotionally and putting forward realistic images of parenthood and motherhood. There also needs to be some… — Jessica Valenti
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be… — C.S. Lewis
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the… — Walter Lippmann
After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become. — Marcel Proust
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. — Cynthia Ozick
To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment. — Stewart Udall
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the… — Emile M. Cioran
The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from… — Alfred North Whitehead
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead
It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be… — Raymond Chandler
When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going… — John Breaux
The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are… — Benjamin Spock
A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much… — Harold MacMillan
The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be… — Alphonse Daudet

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