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Quotes About Obvious

There's something just obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
~ Sarah Dessen
I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady. Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Alek: Am I that obvious? Deryn: No. Im just dead clever.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.
~ John Burdett
Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.
~ Debra Hamel
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Success depends on the capacity to manipulate the obvious with calculated precision.
~ Elena Ferrante
Fourth, except in the rare case of an obvious scrivener's error, purpose—even purpose as most narrowly defined—cannot be used to contradict text or to supplement it.
~ Antonin Scalia
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
~ George Bernard Shaw
When Democrats are proposing things like a Green New Deal and Medicare for all and proposing that they take away your private insurance... it's very obvious to people that they've gone in a radical direction that will not work.
~ Dan Crenshaw
You don't need the 'voice of God' commentary. Instead, by juxtaposing contradictory or confirmatory witnesses and archive material, your point of view becomes obvious.
~ Marcel Ophuls
Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things.
~ James Fenton
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I have an uneasy feeling, as if something's buried down there, a nameless, crucial thing, or as if there's someone still on the bridge, left by mistake, up in the air, unable to get to the land. But it's obvious there's no one.
~ Margaret Atwood
The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?
~ Abhinavagupta
Apart from the fact that a lot of them know each other, they were all in livery. Anyone dressed differently would have been as obvious as a horse in a field of cows.
~ Anne Perry
Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing tin pans all over, pouring water on pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortals will accept almost any natural explanation offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.
~ Anne Rice
There were no captions. Once the subjects' identities must have seemed so obvious; it hadn't occurred to the album's creator that the time would come when no one alive remembered them.
~ Anne Tyler
Permission Marketers are totally obvious about their objectives with the consumer.
~ Seth Godin
Fifty dorcas they're setting up an ambush near my ship. (Nykyrian) No bet. I know they are. They're too stupid to not be obvious and predictable. Gah, I hate abiding by the law. Too bad you can't slaughter them where they stand. (Syn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You are not human," the demon announced. "You have no soul." "Thank you for the obvious. Did you know you have horns on your head?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.
~ Shailene Woodley
I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.
~ Simon Pegg
Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, I mean." Halt turned in his saddle to regard the younger man and raised an eyebrow. "I may be almost senile in your eyes, Horace, but there's no need to explain the blindly obvious to me. I'd hardly have thought you were referring to Tug.
~ John Flanagan