Top 242 Outright Quotes & Sayings

A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

During the playoffs, some players have more second-guessing and outright doubt to deal with than others.

There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.

You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.

Turkey's regime is fast degenerating into outright dictatorship, emboldened by the imminent ascent of Donald Trump to the most powerful position on Earth.

Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

What we know is that people who outright refuse vaccines are a very small group.

Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.

I can't tell you how many times I've turned to Parliament Funkadelic for inspiration and actually just outright and replayed or sampled a song.

That picture was made before there was even a union in this business. So, I don't make any money out of the 'The Kid's' reruns. Chaplin owns the negative outright.

Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.

You have Donald Trump just making outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue.

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because of the bludgeoning, single-minded violence of the music.

Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.

The credit reporting system suffers from inaccuracy and often from outright injustice.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.

We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial.

I don't want to call anyone an outright winner without having seen everything.

Be a warrior when it comes to delivering on your ambitions. And a saint when it comes to treating people with respect, modeling generosity, and showing up with outright love.

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left to try to pull this apart.

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

I'm not outright seeking stuff. Because all I want to do is done. I bought my mother a nice house and pretty dress.

Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.

All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence.

But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

I'd like to win the British belt outright.

If I played a vamp I would be rejected by the audience outright.

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

I honestly expected me learning Welsh to be met with a certain amount of cynicism, even outright hostility from some. But that hasn't happened.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

One of the most modern pretenders to inspiration is the Book of Mormon. I could not blame you should you laugh outright while I read aloud a page from that farrago.

Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime.

It's not part of our culture to even think about outright purchasing a third-party developer.

For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.

It sounds outright bland, but people here in Indiana want conscientious public servants who have deep convictions but are prepared to work across the aisle when possible.

Giving a point to a team that has not conceded an outright win is not that great an idea. When an outright result cannot be reached, the points should be shared between the two teams.

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.