Quotes About Outright

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.

So my only hope, therefore, was to make him so angry he'd kill me outright and save us both a lot of effort. These were my cheery thoughts--not that my head was any too clear.

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth.

If it had been an outright junkyard, probably he could have stuck things out, made a career: the violence that had caused each wreck being infrequent enough, far enough away from him, to be miraculous, as each death, up till the moment of our own, is miraculous.

By learning to use their current resources right, companies often find they can tip the resource hurdle outright.

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