Obvious Quotes

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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake. — Vincent D'Onofrio
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is… — Richard Dawkins
My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a… — Beth Ditto
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's… — Bob Dylan
I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means. — Terry Eagleton
I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. — Steve Earle
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. — Albert Einstein
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. — Idris Elba
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed… — Paul Farmer
Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened… — Brett Favre
The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you. — Tim Ferriss
Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts… — Sandra Fluke
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that… — Stephen Harper
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we… — Sam Harris
To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. — Eric Hoffer
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious. — Khaled Hosseini
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. — William Ralph Inge
If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that… — Molly Ivins
I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my… — Jim Jarmusch
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it,… — Steve Jobs

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