Top 100 Outspoken Quotes
#1. As it so happens, I like your mouth."
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"Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you, and I would never put that out.
Dannika Dark
#2. Being outspoken about my faith isn't just something that I do; it's who I am because my faith isn't just a little piece of my life. It is my life. It's not a question of whether I'm outspoken about it or not. I'm definitely not ashamed of it.
Tim Tebow
#3. Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.
Dave Parker
#4. It almost seemed to her that those secret, unuttered, critical thoughts had suddenly taken visible and accusing shape and form in the person of this outspoken morsel of neglected humanity.
L.M. Montgomery
#5. As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GOP for my outspoken criticism of their extremist attacks on public education and voting rights, to name just two examples.
Wendy Davis
#6. She was pretty all right, but he'd had prettier. She was proud and brave,too, but she was also outrageous and outspoken. And, yes, she had the body of a goddess, but she dressed it like a man. She entranced him, she irritated the hell out of him. She was forbidden fruit!
Charlotte McPherren
#7. Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or so he thought. Patton believed a leader should look and act tough, so he cultivated his image and his personality to match his philosophy.
Simon Sinek
#8. Californians tend to be outspoken. When the great migration began, the more timid people must have stayed home, and the bolder ones headed west.
Shana Alexander
#9. I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.
Andie MacDowell
#10. To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#11. I think for a group that has a reputation for being shy and elusive, we're actually outspoken.
Stevie Jackson
#12. I made an instant connection with boxing right away. Boxing became such a part of me. I ate boxing, I slept boxing, I lived boxing. Boxing was a way of expressing myself because I was not that outspoken.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#13. I am an outspoken person. I believe in what I say.
Dionne Warwick
#14. I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.
Fergie
#15. The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness.
Charles Spurgeon
#16. Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
Brendan Fraser
#18. I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that's as far as it goes.
Lea Michele
#19. Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
Ali Khamenei
#20. I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press
Nelson Mandela
#21. Without boxing, because of my neighborhoods, who knows what would have happened to me. It was always about following the leader. And I definitely was not a leader. Boxing gave me discipline; a sense of self. It made me more outspoken. It gave me more confidence.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#22. The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun ... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.
Lori Foster
#23. You might say I was a little bit more outspoken ... I spoke my mind.
Bobby Hull
#24. I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.
Martha Plimpton
#25. What's novel today is the outspoken way that powerful donors admit and even champion the fact that gift-giving is a useful vehicle for preserving privilege, something that distinguishes them from earlier donors.
Linsey McGoey
#26. Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.
James I. Robertson Jr.
#27. As was often the case, the most outspoken man was the least discerning.
Brandon Sanderson
#28. My outspoken positions haven't always been popular in the halls of Congress, but they have been rooted in what I believed was right and necessary.
Mike Quigley
#29. [On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?
Dorothy Parker
#31. I don't know how many parts I've lost because a lot of the politics in California are very conservative, and I'm fairly outspoken. I always tried to get as much politics in as I could, because I do believe in class struggle, and I think that's what's left out.
James Cromwell
#32. I think if I believe in something strongly enough, I'm pretty outspoken about it.
Andy Roddick
#33. I think I give off a strong energy. I'm 5'9, I'm pretty athletic and I'm pretty outspoken.
Cassidy Freeman
#34. I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.
Kool Keith
#35. Christian guys had a reputation for being soft or not being tough enough to play the game. But every chapel we've had, our team fighter has been in there. Stu Grimson is very outspoken. Dan Bylsma, the head coach at Pittsburgh, was one guy that really helped me a lot.
Matt Cullen
#36. I don't want to get in a big, long discussion about right and wrong, but our company has been working on the issue of underage drinking and alcohol abuse for a long time. I've been outspoken about it.
Pete Coors
#37. I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here.
Toby Young
#38. In the songs that I write, that's where I get to be really brave and outspoken.
Emily Kinney
#39. What they have done, ISIS is very well outspoken about how much they hate our freedom, who we are as Americans.
James Lankford
#40. When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.
Rick Bass
#41. Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
Peter Jennings
#42. My outspoken beliefs have been embraced, but I don't consider myself an activist. Maybe people consider me as that, but it's not anything outrageous or bad I can't live with.
Burning Spear
#43. She was always different from other people - more outspoken, more independent, more fearless.
Lauren Oliver
#45. The young will not always be young, the famous will not always be relevant, the outspoken will not always have a voice. Make the most of now.
Olarewaju Oladipo
#46. I've got an outspoken personality, which gets people thinking, and my style of fighting is aggressive. Everything's on the line all the time. In my fights, there's drama.
Tyson Fury
#47. We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
Boris Kodjoe
#48. I like to be around people who are very passionate. People that won't fight but that will be very over-protective and outspoken about their opinion, their point of view, their ideas.
Zoe Saldana
#49. I want to be outspoken. I want to say my opinions and I hope they're taken in the right way. I don't want to stop being free. And I won't.
Angelina Jolie
#50. Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.
Jason Mraz
#51. Meet Jake - He's illegally hot and his dirty-talking will make you dizzy!
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Scarlett Avery
#52. Diane had always admired Kaci's strength and outspoken nature.
Valenciya Lyons
#53. I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.
Joe Mantello
#54. Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.
Joe Rogan
#56. If you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model.
Megan Fox
#57. I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
Sam Levenson
#58. I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right.
Diane Keaton
#59. A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'
Penn Jillette
#60. To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
#61. In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
Christina Hoff Sommers
#62. I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
Barbara Bush
#63. There are tools that help sharpen freestyle skills like having a diverse vernacular, some sense of music theory, being outspoken, phrasing, spacing, cross word puzzles, thesauruses, the ability to expand on an issue and embellish that with more descriptive terminology.
Myka 9
#64. This book is dedicated to the people of America
strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with a passion for justice no nation has ever matched.
Paul Johnson
#65. I was raised Catholic. I rejected it later on. I'm an outspoken atheist now. People say, 'Oh, it's a negative thing to be an atheist.' I don't agree. I think it's more optimistic to think that there is no God, no afterlife.
Anthony Jeselnik
#66. If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
#67. What right has a man to say he has a soul if he does not feel it, or that there is a God if he does not see Him? If there is a God we must see Him, if there is a soul we must perceive it; otherwise it is better not to believe. It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
Steven Weber
#69. Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.
James D. Watson
#71. It seems people don't read or listen. Our scholars and our media have been very outspoken. We were the first country in the world to hold a national public awareness campaign against extremism and terrorism. Why would we not want to fight an ideology whose objective is to kill us?
Adel Al-Jubeir
#72. I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.
Christopher Reeve
#73. I feel like I've come off as an outspoken woman. Sometimes I think I've come off as confrontational. But I feel like it's been pretty fair. Those are parts of me.
NeNe Leakes
#74. You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.
Peaches Geldof
#75. I've learnt a lot over the years, but I'm still quite outspoken. And no matter how much media training you put me through, I don't think I could be anything but.
Lee Ryan
#76. A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.
RuPaul
#77. I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#78. Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.
Diplo
#79. Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.
Alanis Morissette
#80. It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.
Tim Tebow
#81. Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can't do that.
NeNe Leakes
#82. Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political knowledge in remarkable ways, and was an outspoken, radical opponent of the war, its nationalism and its capitalism
Harold Bloom
#83. Being outspoken has always gotten me into trouble. I'm just this little thing and then all of a sudden it comes out.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#84. My husband was very special and very funny and outspoken, and he would have a black and blue every so often because under the table, I'd say, 'Don't say that!'
Blythe Danner
#85. Louis Agassiz, the Swiss naturalist who became the most outspoken advocate of the idea that much of Earth had once been covered in ice, but alienated many in the process.
Bill Bryson
#86. I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.
Mary Badham
#87. An avowed feminist activist and an outspoken bisexual, DiFranco has been candid about the necessity of women musicians identifying with the F-word. "Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist," she once wrote. "There is no box marked 'other'".
Marisa Meltzer
#88. The boy is of an outspoken disposition, and had made an opprobrious remark respecting my personal appearance."
"What did he say about your appearance?"
"I have forgotten, sir," said Jeeves, with a touch of austerity. "But it was opprobrious.
P.G. Wodehouse
#89. Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent.
Gary Bauer
#90. It wasn't until I found my tribe of artists - people who were outspoken and not afraid to say what they thought, whether in a song or a dance or a piece of classical music - that I found a refuge.
Cote De Pablo
#91. Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?
Kirk Douglas
#92. I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.
Betty Ford
#93. Transform yourself from desperate doormat to outspoken doormat-wielding proctologist.
Marla Buchanan
#94. I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I
Patricia Montandon
#95. I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
Ban Ki-moon
#96. I believe that the world has become more democratic and open. Women have become more outspoken, more active and competitive. They have achieved great accomplishments in many fields that were previously dominated by men.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#97. And why should we, of all people, expect the proud new developing nations to see the world precisely as we see it? Was any new nation ever more outspoken, independent and unaligned than the young America of Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln?
Chester Bowles
#98. In the same way that the really rich can never be mad (they're eccentric), so they can also never be rude (they're outspoken and forthright).
Terry Pratchett
#99. I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
Mamie Gummer
#100. It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I'd look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.
Sabrina Chapadjiev
