Quotes About Forthright

To establish such a forthright dream of decency, who wouldn't sign up to shoot at a few thousand Englishmen, just as long as Mr. Bean wasn't among them?

Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing.

I've never gone into an interview in my life and said that we can't talk about something.

If you ask me a question... I'm not a liar so I'm not going to try and get out of the question. I just answer it.

As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.

She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.

I don't do vague. If I want to call you a coward, I will bock at you in no uncertain terms. Chicken shit. -Urian

I'm just me. I'm just very opinionated. I react to whatever I see. If it's good, it's good. If it's bad, it's bad. I don't mince my words.

I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

Hey, I'm nothing but honest!

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.

You've just got to be honest and straightforward.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Small, forthright words, used in the service of condensing experience, might have an idea buried in them as large as the most expansive work that wears its intellectualism on its sleeve. The unshed tears of the deeply felt are akin to the unused large words in the service of a thought.

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

You do not imagine that a mere matter of etiquette could foil you. But the social dimension turns out to be as essential as the scientific—matters of how casual you should be, how formal, how reticent, how forthright. Also: how apologetic, how self-confident, how money-minded.

I shoot from the hip.

I'm nothing if not honest.

I'm an honest guy.

I'm an honest person. I've nothing to hide.

I'm an honest person.

I am by and large an honest person, I have nothing to hide.