Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.