State The Obvious Quotes

#1. My romances were all pleasant and brief. I cannot say why brief, except to state the obvious: that I do not have much in me that might encourage a woman to make a long habit of my company.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. Only an academic could state the obvious and pass it off as wisdom." -Moist Von Lipwig (T.P., Going Postal)

Terry Pratchett

#3. To be a human is to state the obvious. Repeatedly. Over and over, until the end of time.

Matt Haig

#4. You usually can't go wrong if you state the obvious.

Glenn Andrews

#5. What is it about mundanes and their overwhelming compulsion to state the obvious?

Cassandra Clare

#6. Well if you're going to be friends with me, you're going to have to get used to the fact that I have no filter and will always state the obvious.

N.A. Alcorn

#7. We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

George Orwell

#8. It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs that state the obvious, and leaps into a trip no drug known to man could ever encompass.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. Truth telling, therefore, has to be an ultimate value, until it clashes with another ultimate value, pleasure, at which point, to state the obvious, there is conflict.

Hanif Kureishi

#10. To be a human is to state the obvious

Matt Haig

#11. I'm good at my job for a midwestern American. Maybe it's because people in fashion often mistake common sense for genius. I mean, some model walks down the runway in an impossible outfit, and I state the obvious ? no one is going to wear that ? and people are like, you're brilliant!.

David Wolfe

#12. To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of the most important things, for me anyway, is that they be about two strong people finding their way to love.

Nora Ephron

#13. 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

#14. I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

Estelle

#15. Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

Thandie Newton

#16. The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

Joe Biden

#17. My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

Norman G. Finkelstein

#18. The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.

Dan Gable

#19. It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

Leo Tolstoy

#20. My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

Annie Lennox

#21. The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Stefan Molyneux

#22. It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#23. While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious why so many secularists are addicted to politics because political power is a surrogate for a Higher Power.

J.P. Moreland

#24. It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Daniel Keys Moran

#25. Robert Trivers argues, for instance, that people who can believe their own lies turn out to be the best liars of all - and an ability to deceive rivals has obvious advantages in the state of nature.

Sam Harris

#26. Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

Jerry Brown

#27. All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.

Quentin Crisp

#28. The obvious path to a two-state solution would be for the United States and the rest of the world to simply recognize the State of Palestine, regardless of Israeli objections, but no president has seriously contemplated taking that step.

Charles Kurzman

#29. It is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear change and fluctuations. It is very puzzling that the IPCC reports state that it is mostly due to the greenhouse effect.

Syun-Ichi Akasofu

#30. He unsnapped the top button on his jeans.
My eyes widened."Sneaky bastard."
I gnawed my lip in pleasure,watching the past,present,and future Master of Cadogan House in the state of utter abandon:shirt on the floor,jeans unbuttoned,his arousal obvious.

Chloe Neill

#31. That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

Charles Babbage

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

George Soros

#33. Few things in this world evoke scrotum-shriveling fear in a man like a group of frowning women, enraged to the point of atypical silence, ambling toward him with an obvious agenda.

Michael Gurnow

#34. The idea that other perspectives exist may not be obvious to those who are in an emotional state of mind.

Nabil N. Jamal

#35. The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

P. J. O'Rourke

#36. A kind Providence has so skilfully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state.

Nathaniel Hawthorne