Obvious Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.

With 3 percent of the worlds resources and 25 percent of the worlds demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

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 portrait.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

I think it's so much sexier to be understated. It's more intriguing to be sexy in a less obvious way.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.

Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

[...] the inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race [...]

Kindly remember that the obvious is always overlooked.

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

After a certain age, the more one becomes oneself, the more obvious one's family traits become.

If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will— even if it’s not immediately obvious.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.

If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride.

Repeating moves in an ending can be very useful. Apart from the obvious gain of time on the clock one notices that the side with the advantage gains psychological benefit.

Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.

Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.

I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious.

To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.