Obvious Quotes

It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.

There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and industry to leave it in the ground.

If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong.

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

I don't like things that are obvious and so I always try to introduce something that is wrong, something that is different. Just beauty by itself is too easy.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.

Everything they teach in school is oriented so that they can test it to show that you know it, instead of taking note of the obvious, which is that people learn by doing what people want to do.

The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

My daughter is a fan of mine but she doesn't want to be too obvious about it because I'm her mum and it's not cool.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.

Pets are the world to me. I think they are the most obvious manifestations of divine love that we are going to see this side of eternity.

We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.

Everybody says not enough people vote. Now, I don't know nothing, but after the midterms, pretty obvious to me, that too many people vote.

It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

Oh, it can't be a reference to the fact Harry's a great Seeker, that's way too obvious. There must be a secret message from Dumbledore hidden in the icing!

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.