Quotes About Straightforwardness

That passion is better than stoicism or hypocrisy; that straightforwardness, even in evil, is better than losing oneself in trying to observe traditional morality; that the free man is just as able to be good as evil, but that the unemancipated man is a disgrace to nature, and has no share in heavenly or earthly bliss

When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway.

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

Michelle Rodriguez is like the most original person on the planet. She's so straight up, uncensored all the time. Be ready. I love her for that.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

I think Americans appreciate that my dad's a genuine guy. He's not gonna manicure every little word, and he's not massaging it. He's not running computer analytics to tell you what you want to hear and then do whatever the special interests tell him what they want him to do in the end.

I'd like to think my brand shares some of those characteristics we like to think of as classically American - a certain straightforwardness, honesty, a sense of humor, inclusiveness, practicality - all those great Yankee traits. And I don't mean the baseball team.

Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

You're going to get what I think is the truth, and it's going to be raw.

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points.

The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they'll help you get through the times when you fall short.

I would love to see no more ghettos but the things is, there's no diplomacy in the ghetto. They want to tell you something, they tell you straight!

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

I try to be as clear and straight as I can in what I am putting forward. I think people are fed up with politicians where there are lots of bland lines to take.

Cut the crap and tell me what color panties you're wearing.

was so straightforward and obvious that it sounds almost ridiculous to talk about it.

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.