Quotes About Categorically

#1. I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.

Brendan Rodgers

#2. We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'

Darren Criss

#3. One of the head guys at Disney categorically said to me, 'We don't want to make children's films any more. We want to make films that are going to appeal to all quadrants.' Hence you have films like 'Shrek' and all the Pixar stuff, which is designed to suit everybody.

Gurinder Chadha

#4. I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused.

Motsoko Pheko

#5. The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it.

Ruth Davidson

#6. I would categorically not rule out that it's not the last season of Community. Does that make sense? I would love nothing more than for Community to have a following on Friday, and to be able to continue it.

Robert Greenblatt

#7. If I can't be personal, I don't want to argue," said his hostess categorically. "I may be missing your points, but you're much too busy dodging mine.

Dorothy Dunnett

#8. Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance.

Alexander Kotov

#9. Yet if you scratched very deep at that idea of pattern (which apparently he had never taken the trouble to do), you hit an emptiness so dark that it destroyed, categorically, anything you'd ever looked at or thought of as light.

Donna Tartt

#10. I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

Jack Vance

#11. The answer is no," said Melody firmly. "Undeniably, indisputably, categorically no.

Sarah Weeks

#12. We are categorically against proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Sergei Lavrov

#13. The Scriptures categorically state that the problem with such people is not the absence of evidence; it is, rather, the suppression of it. The message of Jesus Christ shifts the charge of insufficiency from the volume of evidence to the intent of one's will.

Ravi Zacharias

#14. Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to take toward forecasting, especially in a field like economics where the data is so noisy.

Nate Silver

#15. My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.

Ghassan Kanafani

#16. We're not the damned, folks, we're the categorically fucked.
-Urian

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#18. Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

Thomas Sowell

#19. I can categorically say I will not be putting my hat in the ring. It's not something I have ever coveted and it's not a position I am interested in taking up at this point in time. I am loyal to Newcastle and they have been fabulous to me. I feel that is where my responsibility lies.

Rob Andrew

#20. I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

Chris Hadfield

#21. I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

Joe Shuster

#22. I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

Stephen Daldry

#23. I can tell you categorically that any mal-treatment of any detainees by U.S. forces or coalition forces is totally unacceptable - that our orders have and will continue to be that we will treat everyone in our charge with - humanely and with respect.

Peter Pace

#24. You stared at the stranger in front of you and decided,
categorically, that this was no longer your son. Or you made the decision to find whatever scraps of
your child you still could in what he had become.
Was that even really a choice, if you were a mother?

Jodi Picoult

#25. My work on Orange has taught me this: Human beings are not categorically bad because of their mistakes. They can learn from their errors and get back on track. No one should be forever written off because of one part of his or her history.

Diane Guerrero

#26. I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

Fritz Hollings

#27. He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed with him. I was the type of man women said they hated, and then they went home.

Colin Bateman

#28. Qhuinn gave in immediately, as he was categorically incapable of denying the female anything - most certainly not one of her hugs. They were even better than her lasagna.

J.R. Ward

#29. At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I'm told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all.

Suresh Raina

#30. Could something be real when all evidence of it was gone? Was something categorically true if it lived on only in your head, same as your dreams?

Marisha Pessl

#31. Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#32. I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies ... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

Susan Griffin

#33. We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone.

Sergei Lavrov

#34. To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

Stephen Vizinczey

#35. Bonhoeffer categorically refuses to demythologize the resurrection ... he finally walked to his execution, saying that for him it was the beginning of life.

K Hamilton

#36. At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

Adeline Yen Mah

#37. I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter.

Drummond Money-Coutts

#38. Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

Tariq Ramadan

#39. Seriously. A man categorically devised the high heal and he did it in an attempt to make it easier for you dudes to rugby tackle us womenfolk to the ground and haul us back to your beds.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#40. I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Don Hewitt

#41. [Working with survivors] it's just a whole different level of concern and that is something that was categorically different working on this film than any other project we had done.

Amy Ziering

#42. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times a thought can be refuted, yes, but not retracted. (p. 179)

Milan Kundera

#43. Permission to disregard your orders, Underqueen."
"Permission not granted. Permission categorically denied.

Samantha Shannon

#44. I'm having fun with what I'm doing but I'd never categorically say no to something because it's not horror. I'm keeping an open mind.

Oren Peli

#45. That day, she became categorically certain of two things: that he annoyed her, profoundly, and, if she could, she would never leave him.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

#46. I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I don't think I learned how to write at Oxford. I did not go to any creative writing classes or anything.

Samantha Shannon

#47. Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

Richard Dawkins

#48. CREATIVITY first of all aims to achieve a REVOLUTION OF VALUES THROUGH RELIGION, therefore it completely and categorically rejects the Judeo-Christian-democratic-Marxist-liberal-feminist values of today and supplants them with new and basic values of which RACE IS THE FOUNDATION.

Ben Klassen

#49. If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

Lal Bahadur Shastri