Quotes About Clarity

Don't ask questions you don't want the answer, Micah.

How do you know what I want? You've never asked.

No matter what she heard, how could she think it? I love her, damnit. How could she not know?

If there's something you want to say, say it. I'm not a mind reader.

Cut the sarcasm or I'll cut you

Sometimes what you want is right in front of you. All you have to do is open your eyes and see it.

Cal: "Could you write a little bigger? I'm not sure China saw that." Every Boy's Got One

But things were different now. I finally had my head -pun intended- on straight.

It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.

What?" That's when I knew how wrong I'd been.

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content…it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble, and from babble to confusion. —René Daumal (1908–1944), French poet and critic

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. Lao Tzu

But she also saddened easily, and hungered for clarity, security, and purpose.

When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.

Grossman was NOT a man. (3) Mrs. Grossman was NOT Mr. Todd. Judy was the first to raise her hand. "Where's Mr. Todd?" "I'm sure Mr. Todd told everyone on Friday that he was going to a special teacher conference." "I wasn't here Friday," said Judy. "He's going to learn to be a better

My gift is that I always know when I've made an ass of myself.

Only through pain can you be sure of the truth

If an author's account of any man is tidy, you must believe it has been made so in contrast with the truth, which is rarely clear and never simple.

Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

If we went out on the street dressed the way we talk, we should be arrested for indecentexposure. JAMES THURBER

He was some sort of boxing champion, she told me the night she took me out to celebrate my graduation. He was always punching someone in the nose. Macho, I said. No, she said. It was the clarity of expression that appealed to him.

Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception.

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.