Something Obvious Quotes

But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love. — Thomas Hardy

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 it to throw you off. — Steven Brust

Maybe T-shirts should stick to something obvious, like i'm a girl or 80% water or likely to breathe. — Shannon Hale

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring. — George Weinberg

When something seems 'the most obvious thing in the world' it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up. — Bertolt Brecht

I was struck by something rather obvious - namely, that any religious ritual is arbitrary unless one is able to see past it to a deeper meaning. — Donna Tartt

We are driven by something as simple and as obvious as the desire to be happy, and, if that fails, by the belief that we once have been. — Andre Aciman

We refuse to acknowledge something that is blatantly obvious because either we are closed or we don't know how to face it. — Santosh Sharma

Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else. — John Flanagan

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

It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

As soon as something seems the most obvious thing in the world,it means that we have abandoned all attempts to understanding it. — Bertolt Brecht

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown. — Felix Baumgartner

When something becomes obvious to you," he said, "you immediately think surely someone else is doing this. — Michael Lewis

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet. — Amy Dickinson

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does. — Rabih Alameddine

Thomas Aquinas states parenthetically, as something entirely obvious, that men are more rational than women. For my part, I see no evidence of this. — Bertrand Russell

No matter how obvious something may seem, there are two sides to every story. — Erin Bowman

I look down at myself, hoping I didn't forget something painstakingly obvious like, oh, a shirt, for example. But, nope, definitely have one of those. — Cassie Graham

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false. — Noam Chomsky

Something to remember is that covering up a lie almost always makes it more obvious, — Liam Saxon

Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways. — Bryant McGill

There was no way I could be confident! But it was obvious that the patient will die if I don't do something!
-Dr. Honma — Osamu Tezuka

A box of tacks - might actually be something less obvious: a box and tacks. — Anonymous

Just because something makes sense after the fact doesn't mean it was obvious all along. — Sam Gosling

The only proof that it is like something to be you at this moment is the fact (obvious only to you) that it is like something to be you. — Sam Harris

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable. — John Green

If you understand something, you understand that it is obvious. — Israel Gelfand

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. — Sarah Dessen

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. — Steve Earle

Be the first to say something obvious and achieve immortality. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach