Obvious Quotes

1416 Obvious quotes by 1124 unique authors

An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple. — Jay Abraham
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of… — Charles Edward Merriam
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons,… — James Madison
Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul -… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation. — Guy Steele
So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in… — Barbara Ehrenreich
One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't… — Georges Courteline
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his… — Max Beerbohm
Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious. — Virginia Woolf
While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many… — J.P. Moreland
I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible. — Erik Spiekermann
You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they… — Cheryl Rainfield
I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and engaging, and then you realize what you're looking at is… — Cindy Sherman
I love working with Erica [Durance]. She's so much fun. And I love how flippant, comfortable, and casual the relationship is. There is so much… — Allison Mack
Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize — David Archuleta
It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side. — Rosario Dawson
Yes, I think lots of people are eager to obtain weapons of mass destruction. But there's no evidence that he (Hussein) has weapons of mass… — Janeane Garofalo
But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so… — Javier Bardem
I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that theres so much about what… — Ryan Gosling
Man, I have absolutely zero ability into narrowing absolutely any of my favorites into just one, but I have to say, I gotta go between… — Shawn Michaels
Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of… — Sam Shepard
I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story… — Deborah Norville
Just because you're on the Disney Channel and you always have a smile on your face, they think you're perfect, and it's obvious that nobody's… — Demi Lovato
I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going… — Jude Law
Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to… — Michael Jeter

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