Obvious Quotes - Page 4

• Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

  Kobe Bryant

  Eye

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.

  H. L. Mencken

  Conceited, Reality, Effort

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• Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.

  Helen Nielsen

  Jealousy

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• It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

  Muriel Lester

  Country, Travel, Giving

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

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Thinking, Government, Would Be

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

  Tod Machover

  Obvious Things, Wells, Devices

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

  Tim Winton

  Capacity, Threat, Overfishing

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

  Billy Wilder

  Clever, Subtlety, Audience

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• When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

  James Cook

  Missing, Mind, Trying

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• Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.

  Shirin Neshat

  Communication, Artist, Magic Realism

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

  Paul Muldoon

  Interesting, Chance, Destination

  Harper’s Magazine, September 1999.

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

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Race, Triumph

  "Shalimar the Clown". Book by Salman Rushdie, books.google.ru. October 23, 2008.

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, Vanity

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.721, Stanford University Press

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• You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.

  Danica Patrick

  Winning, Race, Track

  Danica Patrick's Firestone 550K Post-Race Press Conference, www.motorsport.com. June 6, 2010.

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

  Marcel Proust

  Age, Certain, Human Condition

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• It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

  Timothy Gowers

  Needs, Problem, Mathematics

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

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Long, Literature

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• Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

  Bill Maher

  Hypocrite, Names, Two

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• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Success, Lying, Military

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• Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mom, Baby, Children

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.53, Vintage

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• A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

  Karl Marx

  Business, Sight, Analysis

  Karl Marx (1988). “Marx Selections”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

  Ernest Sosa

  Want Something, Want, Impossibility

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Never assume the obvious is true.

  William Safire

  Truth, Obviousness, Peer Pressure

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• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  Isaac Asimov

  Foundation, Pay, Reputation

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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