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Quotes About Clarity

well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.
~ Diana Gabaldon
It's always better if they see. Then they don't imagine things. So I didn't imagine, I remembered.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Frenchman wouldn't seem so dangerous to them. Perhaps. He blinked hard to clear his vision, and was opening his mouth
~ Diana Gabaldon
Don't let characters talk pointlessly—they only talk if there's something to say.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I had known her long enough, though, to realize that one of Jenny's greatest gifts was her ability to see something with utter clarity—and then to look straight through it, as though it wasn't there.
~ Diana Gabaldon
When I asked my Da how ye knew which was the right women, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that fruit tree on the road to Leoch with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself, Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weighs as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Boxing the Jesuit?" Stephan nudged Grey with an elbow, and raised thick blond brows in puzzlement. "Cockroaches? What does this mean, please?" "Ahhh…" Having no notion of the German equivalent of this expression, Grey resorted to a briefly graphic gesture with one hand, looking over his shoulder to be sure that none of the women was watching. "Oh!" Von Namtzen looked mildly startled, but then grinned widely. "I see, yes, very good!
~ Diana Gabaldon
though testing his vision. "Fades a bit sometimes," he explained, "if I'm verra tired. Things
~ Diana Gabaldon
are like sherry in crystal, and
~ Diana Gabaldon
Washington knew what he was about, though; he listened more than he talked, and when he said something, it was to the point.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You can't possibly have said what I think you said." "Indeed I did," he said, his normal dry edge returning.
~ Diana Gabaldon
For a moment, I lived in the center of the sun, warmed and cleansed, and the smell and sight of sickness fell away; the bitterness lifted from my heart. I
~ Diana Gabaldon
reason returned, and I calmed
~ Diana Gabaldon
Aye, well," he said. "I suppose I'm maybe not poisoned.
~ Diana Gabaldon
panes in an attempt to get a better look at
~ Diana Gabaldon
I Ã¢â'¬Â¦ am not quite sure, to tell you the truth. Perhaps it is only an effort to reconcile my memories of last night with the Ã¢â'¬Â¦ er Ã¢â'¬Â¦ actuality of the experience?
~ Diana Gabaldon
Ifs" hover in the air above your head all the time when you're doing surgery, like a cloud of gnats. For the most part, though, they keep a respectful distance, only buzzing dimly in the background. Done.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Randall! Of course!" Roger smacked himself on the forehead, and felt his cheeks grow hot at Brianna's giggle. "You're going to think me a complete fool, but I've only just realized who you are.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Though I suppose if you're honest with yourself and know what you are, at least you're less likely to feel that you've wasted your life, doing the wrong thing.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.
~ Brian Fallon
You sort of assume that everyone knows how television works, but they don't actually, why should they?
~ Emily Maitlis
I don't think things will lead me astray, as long as I'm tapped into myself.
~ Ashton Sanders
Our first cultural attribute is over-communication rather than under-communication.
~ Ritesh Agarwal
'Australian Rules' was my moment of truth.
~ Nathan Phillips