Outright Quotes

97 Outright quotes by 91 unique authors

It makes me laugh when she says she [Salma Hayek] got offered Selena, which was an outright lie. If that's what she does to get… — Jennifer Lopez
This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to… — Tenzin Palmo
Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached? — Jeffrey Rowland
As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal… — Piri Thomas
How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of… — Daphne Merkin
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces,… — Michael Hastings
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality. — Jean Racine
The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom… — Aberjhani
Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure… — Neal A. Maxwell
Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have… — Judah Smith
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in… — Cliff Stearns
Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and… — Mike Shinoda
Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have done well enough… — David Pryce-Jones
But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the… — Anna Maxted
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves… — George Santayana
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those… — Saint Augustine
Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men,… — Edward Burnett Tylor
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by… — Vance Havner
It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very… — Chris Weitz
Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the… — Eric Cantor
I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press,… — Nick Clegg
F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power… — Jeff Greenfield

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