Obvious Quotes

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
― Ronald Reagan

“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.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. ”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“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.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”
― Martin Heidegger

“How very wet this water is.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz

“Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.”
― Timothy Zahn, Heir to the Empire

“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.”
― Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

“I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.”
― Yogi Berra

“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.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks.
"No, what?"
"Blue sky."
"You're zoomed."
"You ever eat blue sky?"
"No," I admit.
"Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored.”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

“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, Touching Darkness

“the problem at this point is that there is a problem.”
― Captain Obvious

“See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

“I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.”
― Mo Willems, Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator!

“Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .”
― Michael M. Lewis, Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity

“You're alive!" Fezzik cried.
The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across...”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“Genna: “My straw has a hole in it!”
Tim: *gives her a Really? look*
Genna: “One that it’s not meant to have!”
― Timmothy Radman

“the squeeky wheel gets the grease.”
― Josh Billings

“Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.”
― Gary Hopkins

“But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

“You know what you are, young 'un? You're the grand bloody panjandrum of the painfully bleeding obvious.”
― Charlie Fletcher, Silvertongue

“Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What would Jesus do? One thing is obvious, if there is one thing Jesus would NOT do - is to behave like his followers.”
― Christina Engela, Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1

“Even when the elephant leaves the room, there is a massive amount of dung.”
― Wyatt Pringle Jr

“Lies even if the mind is deceived by them for the heart and soul they are clear and obvious.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih