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Letter "O" » obvious
«Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
confection, confections, freshly, obvious, relieved, sticky, tend, washed
«A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one.»
Author: Heraclitus of Ephesus
| About:
Life,
Love,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
connection, hidden, hide out, obvious, stronger, The Connection
«It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
analysis, obvious, undertake, unusual
«It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Civilization,
Humanity,
Progress,
Technology
| Keywords:
appallingly, become, exceeded, has, humanities, humanity, In Humanity, obvious, technologies, technology, that
«God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.»
Author: Drew Barrymore
(Actress)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
body of work, complain, decided, go against, I go, limbs, obvious, shaped, voluptuous
«...What I like does tend to be left-field. I feel somehow much more comfortable playing it. I relate more easily than I do when I run across straight roles. I hate the obvious stuff, I just don't respond to it.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
across, comfortable, easily, field, get across, left field, obvious, playing, playing field, relate, respond, roles, running play, run across, somehow, straight, stuff, tend
«A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
after, bad, badness, Better Late Than Never, current, five, gives, give it a try, giving, Good Living, hour, idea, Know how, later, lie, little, lived, means, minutes, not late, obvious, resist, sense, sheltered, sheltering, shelters, sillier, silliest, silly, simply, strong, take five, temptation, The Temptations, This Is, try, very, why
«It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
especially, most especially, obvious, pays, reputation, subtleties, subtlety
«Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
arcane, best-known, concealed, obvious, well known
«First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Theory
| Keywords:
absurd, admitted, adversaries, attacked, claim, insignificant, obvious
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