Straightforwardly Quotes

#1. We influence others most profoundly when we do not seek to change them at all, but simply go about straightforwardly doing the right and loving thing.

C. Terry Warner

#2. And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who know as much of political life as I know of navigation. (P. 56)

George Bernard Shaw

#3. But the idea is to provoke and persuade, not to soothe. And the best way to make an argument is to make it, straightforwardly, honestly, passionately, without regard to whether people will like you afterward.

Maud Newton

#4. We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage.

Lance Armstrong

#5. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;

Pablo Neruda

#6. Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

Pattiann Rogers

#7. Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.

Anne Hollander

#9. I believe sex is a life force and I try to write about it as straightforwardly as I can. I try to let characters live within their desires and addictions, because most people are works in progress.

Maureen Gibbon

#10. Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other those of the body. This is what the blessed David indicates when he prays to God, saying, "Look on my humility and my toil, and forgive all my sins" (Ps. 25:18).

Maximus The Confessor

#11. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

Anonymous

#12. I so badly wanted to fit into their world. For the longest time, I've dreamt about living a life of a social butterfly, of being one of them. Now, I'm repulsed by the mere idea of mingling with them.

M.A. Abraham

#13. The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.

Polybius

#14. Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#15. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

Gore Vidal

#16. If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either.

Nhat Hanh

#17. Peter's a lucky man except in one respect, he doesn't seem to know how lucky he is.

Louise Penny

#18. Sexism and misogyny. How else to explain why so many more witches were burned than wizards?

Nicholas D. Kristof