Obviously Quotes - 4
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You can hit him and hit him and hit him and he just keeps on coming. I think that I learned a long time ago that one attribute that great players have is stamina, and he obviously has great stamina.
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More Obviously Quotes
You have obviously had a very distinguished record, and I certainly commend you for long service in the public interest. I think it is a very commendable career and I am sure you will have a successful one as a judge.
samuel alito— Sen. Ted Kennedy, speaking on Alito's nomination to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. Committee On The Judiciary, U.S. Senate, Hearing, 1990-04-05
I cannot find a single weakness in Alonso from any viewpoint. He's obviously a huge asset to the Renault team but more importantly a huge asset to the sport as a whole. I think he is perfect.
fernando alonso— Niki Lauda, three-time Formula One champion. [4]
Is it so simple or so black and white that rich people are just kind of inherently bad? And it’s obviously not the case.
— Katey Rich, Royal Pains Set Visit Part 1: Mark Feuerstein Interview, Television Blend [1]
Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
john kenneth galbraith— Chapter VI, An Instrument of Revolution, p. 62
It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.
murray leinster— Chapter 4 (p. 45)
The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less.
michael lewis— Chapter Ten, Two Men In A Boat, p. 244
The difference in class and experience between my opponent and me was obviously huge. But this is a final so I had to expect a fierce fight from my opponent and that’s exactly what happened"
stanislav pozdniakov— Speaking on the Moscow Sabre Men's Final against fellow Russian, the 21 year old Nikolay Kovalev. [Russia Today]
Simon's obviously very smart. But he's not the smartest person I know.
carrie underwood— Esquire, January 2010, p. 78
"It's obviously a tremendous loss for the state .... I think Livingston's stepping down makes a very powerful argument that Clinton should resign as well and move beyond this mess."
david vitter— In May 1999, Vitter replaced Congressman Bob Livingston after Livingston resigned due to an adultery scandal.Konigsmark, Anne Rochell (December 20, 1998). "A Week Of Crisis Impeachment: The Speakership Livingston's Constituents Decision to resign jolts home district". The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution. pp. D4. Retrieved on 2007-07-10.
In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.
gilbert keith chesterton— p. 34 (The Great Minimum)
This guy (Pat Robertson) obviously wants to be a prophet so bad. I wonder if he walks around at home dressed up in a bed sheet, talking Aramaic, maybe parting the waters in the bathtub occasionally, just to keep in practice?
pat condell— YouTube video (January 8, 2008; from YouTube)
Philosophy reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment from that of ancient philosophy. In modern university philosophy, philosophy is obviously no longer a way of life, or a form of life unless it be the form of life of a professor of philosophy.
pierre hadot— trans. Michael Chase, p. 271
I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I happen to be a Republican and would support, obviously, a Republican nominee, but I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President.
john mccain— Meet the Press (20 February 2005)
Whoever opined " Money can't buy you happiness " obviously had far too much of the stuff.
david mitchell— "Letters from Zedelghem", p. 78 (Nook Edition)
Architects who have aimed at acquiring manual skill without scholarship have never been able to reach a position of authority to correspond to their pains, while those who relied only upon theories and scholarship were obviously hunting the shadow, not the substance. But those who have a thorough knowledge of both, like men armed at all points, have the sooner attained their object and carried authority with them.
vitruvius— Chapter I, Sec. 2
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman,...
vitruvius— Chapter I, Sec. 3
A neutral observer would have no difficulty in identifying instances of disconnect between government and people, most obviously in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes where civil society’s voices are muzzled and where peaceful protests are prohibited or severely suppressed,24 but also to a lesser degree in democracies, particularly “representative democracies” that do not genuinely represent, business-driven democracies and so-called “lobby-democracies”, where elected officials tend to be more responsive to the lobbies than to the population.
— United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order [27]
The term, then, is obviously a relative one: my pedantry is your scholarship, his reasonable accuracy, her irreducible minimum of education and someone else’s ignorance.
— H. W. Fowler, Modern English Usage
Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.
— Pahlavi, Muhammad Reza (1961) Mission for my Country, London, p. 233
obviously, he was the first — he was the Governor. Right from the start with those very precocious sketches for the Cambridge Footlights and through Beyond the Fringe, he was an exceptional talent... Every 10 years or so you always get a new generation of comedians but they all acknowledge their debt to Peter.
Peter Cook— Ned Sherrin
obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its main purpose had to be, to realise as sacred art anything which so far had been regarded as of little value and pitiful.
antoni tàpies— p. 38 : From 1988
Oh, for Christ's sake shut up. obviously the New Democratic Party is not only misinformed but uninterested in the subject.
pierre trudeau— Comment in the House of Commons in response to an MP heckling his response in Question Period, House of Commons Debates - Official Report - Second Session - Thirtienth Parliament - Volume V, 1977 - Page 5272 (4 May 1977)
obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.
darl mcbride— (August 28, 2002, [2])
obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
— Philip Roth The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988): Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman
obviously dudes are way better at talking about sex from Shakespeare, creator of the word “undress,” to the first dude who said “donkey punch.”
— Daniel Maurer (2008). Brocabulary: The New Man-I-Festo of Dude Talk. Harper Paperbacks. p. 88. ISBN 0061547565.
obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians . And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population . But oh, how they try.
— Dick Cavett, in Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets, p.181
