Quotes Tagged "obvious"

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, 'atheism' is a term that should not even exist. No one needs to identify himself as a 'non-astrologer' or a 'non-alchemist.' We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need.

Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.

Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

Repeated enough times even the most obvious obnoxious lies become to seem like the truth.

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

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 nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It's obvious.

It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.'

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.