Obvious Quotes

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But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. — Arthur Conan Doyle
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very… — Douglas Adams
In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now… — Ian Mcewan
Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore. — Nicholas Sparks
And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time.… — Nicholas Sparks
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist… — C.S. Lewis
...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an… — Tom Hodgkinson
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble and… — Alice Sebold
Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein
Harry closed his eyes. He never wanted to open them again. His heart sent this message to his molecules: "For reasons obvious to all of… — Kurt Vonnegut
There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under. — Nick Flynn
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was… — John Jakes
Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which… — Ayn Rand
The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious… — Dave Barry
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. — Oscar Wilde
Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska? — John Green
But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the… — Madeleine L'Engle
the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred! — Isaac Asimov
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such… — Thomas Moore
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth… — Leo Tolstoy
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them — Terry Pratchett
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and… — John Stuart Mill

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