Obvious Quotes

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-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about… — Iain Banks
it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the… — Michel Houellebecq
I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those… — Scott Westerfeld
Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not… — Richard Preston
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in… — Ian Mcewan
What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support. — Albert Camus
Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter. — Albert Camus
People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by… — Christopher Hitchens
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The… — William Boyd
This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and… — Kelly Corrigan
What’s goin’ on?” I ask as I take a seat. “Obviously not this.” He tosses me my shirt from last night. “I found it on… — Simone Elkeles
Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others. — Margaret Atwood
It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs… — Hunter S. Thompson
It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable… — Stephen Fry
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly… — Charles Darwin
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine… — Mohsin Hamid
When you jump off a cliff, is it better to land on jagged rocks or burning lava? I know this one. The answer is obvious:… — Richard Kadrey
With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious… — Diana Gabaldon
Chloe? It's me." After a pause, he added, "Derek," like I could mistake that deep rumble for anyone else, like I could mistake that little… — Kelley Armstrong
I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really… — John Green
When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of… — Paul Brunton
That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,… — Hannah Arendt
When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be… — Orson Scott Card
As Alaska zipped through something obvious about linear equations, stoner/baller Hank Walsten said, "Wait, wait. I don't get it." "That's because you have eight functioning… — John Green

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