Roundly Quotes

#1. I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

Carrie Coon

#2. Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.

Douglas Adams

#3. The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.

Mitch McConnell

#4. How roundly self-examination is condemned, by the moral prophets of our age! As if the self had no relation to the self, and one only looked in mirrors to have one's arrogance confirmed; as if the act of self-regarding was not as subtle, fraught and ever-changing as any bond between twin souls.

Eleanor Catton

#5. Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.

Flannery O'Connor

#6. The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

Jessica Valenti

#7. Malcolm Gladwell puts the "pop" in pop psychology, and although revered in lay circles, is roundly dismissed by experts - even by the researchers he makes famous.

Paul Gibbons

#8. It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.

Edgar Allan Poe

#9. Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.

David Sedaris

#10. Well, get the coffer out," said Tobie roundly. "You find his clean clothes and I'll cut his hair round his cap and wash his ears out. Then, when we get to the Palazzo Medici, you imitate his voice and I'll sit him on my knee and move his arms up and down. Where is the problem?

Dorothy Dunnett

#11. Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

George Herbert

#12. A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.

Martin Luther

#13. They were roundly dismissed as extremists - as if nothing so extreme could possibly be true.

Karen Thompson Walker

#14. It always amused me to observe the pathetically desperate hunger expressed in popular culture for life-forms on other planets, when underneath the very feet of these seekers of aliens, and roundly ignored by them, were the most exotic, grotesque, and fabulous life-forms imaginable.

David Cronenberg

#15. It's impossible to make a record when you're ill because it affects how you listen to things. You can't make decisions. It all sounds terrible.

Alison Krauss

#16. The more I practiced kindness and humility, the more the world seemed to appear friendly and manageable.

Noah Levine

#17. You can mean more than one.
You can mean thousands.
I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you.
I'll pretend you can hear me.
But it's no good, because I know you can't.

Margaret Atwood

#18. Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.

Stephen Jay Gould

#19. Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

Baruj Benacerraf

#20. I am my nearest neighbour.

Tacitus