Obvious Quotes

1416 Obvious quotes by 1124 unique authors

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible. — Cameron Russell
The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making… — Joe Biden
I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is… — Allen West
Los Angeles for many years had operated with a police department that was far smaller than other police departments had in areas of comparable or… — Scott Turow
It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is… — Vaclav Klaus
I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and… — Jim Cooper
It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman
Man is more naturally violent than woman. Four times as many men are involved in homicides as women. You might not pick this up in… — Jim Webb
Information is crucial to our biological substance - our genetic code is information. But before 1950, it was not obvious that inheritance had anything to… — James Gleick
As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some… — John Caudwell
The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them. — David Sze
We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership. — David Sze
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. — George Orwell
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. — John Sculley
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who… — John F. Kennedy
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. — Alfred A. Knopf
One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of… — Clement Attlee
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead
The great discoveries are usually obvious. — Phil Crosby
Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do… — Steven Brust
It is obvious that when I shot him I intended to kill him. — Ruth Ellis
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought… — John Desmond Bernal
People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. — Ralph Allen
If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might… — Unknown Author

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