Outright Quotes

97 Outright quotes by 91 unique authors

I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord… — Terry Pratchett
And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught… — Omar Khayyam
Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime. — Imre Lakatos
I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I… — Gerald R. Ford
...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why… — Emily Oster
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring… — Jane Jacobs
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is… — Helen Keller
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. — Aaron Sorkin
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies. — James Surowiecki
Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary. — David Suzuki
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus… — Martin Filler
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a… — George Orwell
... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in… — Matthew Woodring Stover
I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't… — Joan Bauer
The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The… — Brennan Manning
Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That… — William Butler Yeats
People are always trying to tell you how they feel. Some of them say it outright, and some of them, they tell you with their… — Justin Halpern
Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright… — Cassandra Clare
One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright. — Janet Fitch
I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd… — Jennifer Egan
There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all. — Sarah Dessen
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in… — Paulo Coelho
I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four," he said, patting his hands together. "I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go… — Shirley Jackson

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