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Obvious Quotes By the end of the decade it had become obvious that perhaps the one constant of our variegated and strung-out peer groups was a pervasive sense of self-consciousness that sent us in grouchy packs to ugly festivals just to be together and dig ourselves and each other, as if all of this meant something greater than that we were kids who liked rock 'n' roll and came out to have a good time, as if our very styles and trappings and drugs and jargon could be in themselves political statements for any longer than about fifteen stoned seconds, even a threat to the Mother Country! So we loved and loved and doted on ourselves and our reflections in each other even as the whole thing got out of hand and turned into mud and disaster areas and downs and death.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot be separated
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
They criticize me for harping on the obvious - If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.
As I progressed further with my project, it became obvious that it was really unimportant where I chose to photograph. The particular place simply provided an excuse to produce work... you can only see what you are ready to see - what mirrors your mind at that particular time
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.
“It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to hammer with excitement.”
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.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
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