{"quotes":[{"text":"While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["be-kind","building-people-up","commandments","communicate","conflict","dogma","end-it-with-talking","facebook","forgive","god","gospel","hidden-agendas","insecure","jilted","love-everyone","low-self-esteem","making-a-point","mental-illness","move-on","neighbors","novels","obviousness","out-there","over-the-top","piety","pious","practice-what-you-preach","preaching","privacy","problems","reach-out","relationships","relentless","religion","religions","ridiculous","rules","self-righteousness","silly","slighted","talk","tearing-people-down","upfront","worthless"],"id":7615,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Anyone with half a mind could see that,' said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. 'Yes. But sometimes it's so hard to find half a mind when you need one.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["ignorance","knowledge","obviousness","wisdom"],"id":97360,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"Hindsight isn’t a super power.","author":"SE Zbasnik","tags":["fantasy","humor","inpirational","obvious-truth","obviousness","science-fiction","super-power"],"id":107265,"author_id":"SE+Zbasnik"},{"text":"Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["obviousness","reflection","teaching","thoughts"],"id":112249,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Dark is dark in the darkness.","author":"Chet Williamson","tags":["humourous","obviousness","wise-words"],"id":118306,"author_id":"Chet+Williamson"},{"text":"Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["attributes","characteristics","detection","detectives","facts","obviousness","sherlock-holmes"],"id":133277,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"Never assume the obvious is true.","author":"William Safire","tags":["assumption","common-sense","obviousness","truth"],"id":134017,"author_id":"William+Safire"},{"text":"In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.","author":"Umberto Eco","tags":["essentials","fire","imagination","middle-ages","obviousness","writing"],"id":213452,"author_id":"Umberto+Eco"},{"text":"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.","author":"Arthur Conan Doyle","tags":["deception","detection","evidence","facts","obviousness","sherlock-holmes"],"id":228237,"author_id":"Arthur+Conan+Doyle"},{"text":"The squeeky wheel gets the grease.","author":"Josh Billings","tags":["logic","logical-thinking","obvious","obviousness","truth"],"id":372911,"author_id":"Josh+Billings"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}