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.
Franklin Pierce

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.
Lukas Foss

The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction.
Curt Weldon

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
John Sculley

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.
Edward Carpenter

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
Breyten Breytenbach

The great discoveries are usually obvious.
Phil Crosby

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pablo Picasso

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Horton Cooley

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestler

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
Andy Summers

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
June Jordan

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Khalil Gibran

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
Bjorn Lomborg

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.
Henry A. Wallace

The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.
Joseph McKenna

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
Michael Schudson

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy