Quotes About Beating Around The Bush

#1. I think that if you use the so-called "strong words" you'll get your point across faster and you can save a lot of beating around the bush. Why are people afraid of words? Sometimes the dumbest thing that gets said makes the point for you.

Frank Zappa

#2. There's no sense beating around the bush, it doesn't burn that many calories. from Split the Uprights

Davee Jones

#3. I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

Donald Trump

#4. Anything short of cannibalism is just beating around the bush.

J. F. Lawton

#5. I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

Beck

#6. I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

Sting

#7. So that's what it is!" he suddenly exclaimed aloud. "What joy!

Leo Tolstoy

#8. Rather than feeling vindicated, I felt guilty. It seemed cruel, and all my fault, somehow. My relationship with my mother had always brought into question any sense I had of myself as a good and decent person. [p. 128]

Dani Shapiro

#9. When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.

Robin Marantz Henig

#10. Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

Frances Wright

#11. Saul tapped his wife's obstinate chin. "Mrs. Benedict, you certainly are. You promised to obey."
"That was thirty years ago! Before the wedding ceremony caught up with the modern age."
"Well, I for one am holding you to that. Gondola for two, in the moonlight, with champagne and roses.

Joss Stirling

#12. But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be.

Jonathan Groff

#13. Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact with him, turned into a deep moral shock.

Robert Musil

#14. You think civilization is some horrible, polluting human invention that separates us from the state of nature. But civilization doesn't separate us from nature. Civilization protects us from nature.

CRICHTON Michael

#15. Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?"
"I've lived a long time, kid, and I've never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. Memories are like wolves. You can't lock them away and hope they leave you alone.

Nina George