Obvious Quotes

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Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems… — James Surowiecki
Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to… — Adora Svitak
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but… — Thomas Szasz
I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business,… — Matt Taibbi
Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they… — Dorothy Thompson
The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous… — Henry A. Wallace
I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain. — Jacki Weaver
One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks. — Andrew Weil
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect… — Andrew Weil
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. — Billy Wilder
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion… — E. O. Wilson
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the… — Robert Anton Wilson
We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence… — Robert Winston
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties,… — Helen Fisher
You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that… — Evgeny Morozov
At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day;… — Vincent Van Gogh
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I… — Oscar Wilde
...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious… — Terry Pratchett
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear. — Hunter S. Thompson
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. — Aldous Huxley
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy… — J D Salinger
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee… — Bill Watterson
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. — John Maeda

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