Top 738 Openly Quotes & Sayings

I'm the first-ever openly gay female in the WWE.

I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.

We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, it’s our refusal to deal openly and honestly with race that leads us to keep repeating these cycles of exclusion and division, and rebirthing a caste-like system that we claim we’ve left behind

I'm a songwriter; it's in my nature to express things openly.

Love more and openly.

I'm not ashamed to be a Christian. But you don't have to be in the pew every Sunday to know that there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

It is easier to live openly when you're not married. Not to get too much into the whole "romantic love" thing, but if you're going to live successfully with another person, there are things you have to keep to yourself. So the guy who lives on his own, I think, is more used to just expressing things openly.

Yes, I discuss race openly, honestly and, hopefully, intelligently.

Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed.

If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.

I have been a proud, openly gay man since I was 18.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that's the Palestinian authority. I think they're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.

I'd like to become a singer who expresses myself more openly.

I'm married to a man from Utah, and I talk about that very openly.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

I've said openly I'd love to take part in the IPL at some stage.

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.

As every one is pleased with imagining that he knows something not yet commonly divulged, secret history easily gains credit; but it is for the most part believed only while it circulates in whispers, and when once it is openly told, is openly refuted.

It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions - as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

The way I was raised, I didn't have a role model who was openly out.

The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o’ rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o’ poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.

Just me existing, as an openly black transgender woman from a working-class background, thriving, is a political act. My brother always reminds me that if you are black in America and you're alive, you deserve a round of applause. There are so many forces that don't want us to be alive, and so just being openly who I am, and happy and thriving, is a political act.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

I feel like I've always had two selves - the part of me that makes films and the part of me that's political, and they haven't really connected that much. Alias Grace talks about things like class and immigration and women's rights, which felt really good. But especially now, there are pressing things to be said. It's a really scary time in the world. It's a very scary thing to have an American president who openly brags about assaulting women and is openly racist. This isn't a moment to be speaking in metaphors.

I really live my life openly.

Communication is number one, and we have to communicate honestly and openly with each other.

I openly admit it: I am a diva with my food.

I am an openly proud gay man.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

I never talk openly about my political beliefs.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

I openly share music with Drake, especially when it's time for him to have a project.

I love the St. Louis Blues, it's the only team I openly root for.

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

One longs for the presence of a leader like Lincoln, who openly admitted his doubts and as openly preserved his commitment.

For patients to be safe, we need doctors to be able to reflect completely openly and freely about what they have done, to learn from mistakes, to spread best practice around the system, to talk openly with their colleagues.

Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.

I've been openly gay since I can remember.

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.

Television is never more false than when it's openly sincere.

A wonderful world would be a place where we can openly, honestly share things and it's done the same way in return. Do you suppose we're going to get that world anytime soon? I don't expect it. So I am practical. I work to have people close to me whom I can openly and honestly share with. And from that base of safety and trust, I can extend my sharing out into the world.

Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

There's not a lot of black Republicans that are willing to openly identify.

Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at.

I wear my heart on my sleeve and live my life as openly and honestly as I can.

There is one place left in which open racism can be practiced institutionally in the U.S. today, that is through this diversity/equity movement, in which it appears to be that you can be openly anti-white, openly anti-straight, openly anti-male, and this is considered progressive.

Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.

An openly gay footballer would be exposed to abusive comments.

You can't speak openly about everything.

We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.