Quotes About Directness

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

Women say things that are direct - they are told they are too abrasive. I got that feedback in the corporate world.

It's not secret that usually I don't have a filter.

I always say what I think... I'm not brave - I just have no filter.

I don't filter things really.

There's no filter with me, sometimes I say things I shouldn't be saying but I mean, why hide it?

If I fancy a girl, I'll tell her. I'll say: 'You're fit.'

I am the guy that, if you catch me saying something, I don't do the, 'Don't tell anybody I said it.' If I said it, I said it. I'm gonna stand right here and say it again to whoever - the end. What's the trouble? Where's the problem?

I say what I need to, not a whole lot more.

It is my way, to speak directly. I do not mean to give offense by it. It has always seemed to me that honest words leave the least room for misunderstanding.

But don't grovel. Don't apologize. Give him the facts

I say it the way it is. I don't play around. That has been my success, in my opinion, for Mississauga.

My commands are ordinarily short, clear, and precise; and I would rather be obliged to repeat my words twice, or even three times, than they should be misunderstood.

Exactly,' she said, and made her point as simply as that. There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven. ~pg 8

Fucking bastards are simple by nature.

The clever words leaked out of his mind and he spoke without thinking, looking her straight in the eye. Maybe this was what honesty felt like.

Tell your father he must come himself. I do not waste my time on fools and younger sons. I am old fashioned in this. I like to talk to the horse's head, not the horse's arse.

Hard words are for fools and cowards. Calder might have been both, but Logen was neither. If you mean to kill, you're better getting right to it than talking about it. Talk only makes the other man ready, and that's the last thing you want.

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!

love is of the body; not the body, but of the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

He has the merit—if it is one—of saying exactly what he means.