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Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary. -- David Suzuki
The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose. -- Jerry Lewis
I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him. -- Terry Pratchett
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality. -- Jean Racine
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. -- J. K. Rowling
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright. -- Aaron Sorkin
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. -- Jean Rostand
If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you. -- Jonathan Zittrain
Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult. -- James Randolph Adams
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. -- Helen Keller
Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear. -- Alvin Adams
A reverse mortgage is available to anyone who is at least 62 years old and owns a home outright, or has a small mortgage balance remaining. -- Suze Orman
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information. -- Heather Brooke
And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that. -- Neale Donald Walsch
My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted. -- Mike Shinoda
Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it. -- Bob Beauprez
F.D.R. had to deal with Southern segregationists - and outright racists - who held power in Congress, so he had to yield to that power in order to get his New Deal legislation passed. -- Jeff Greenfield
In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962. -- Noam Chomsky
Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright. -- Edward Burnett Tylor
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. -- Jane Jacobs
Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty. -- Eric Alterman
I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on aggressive robust freedom of the British press, but when things go wrong and there has been outright illegality, there should be proper accountability. -- Nick Clegg
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting. -- Emily Oster
I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, cliched writing, outright flailing around. Writing that doesn't have a good voice or any voice. But then there will be good moments. -- Jennifer Egan
I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean? -- John Ridley
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments. -- Cliff Stearns
Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge. -- Eric Cantor
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies. -- George R. R. Martin
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies. -- David Limbaugh
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods. -- Wendy Lesser
Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright. -- N. K. Jemisin
We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial. -- Bruce Johnston
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression. -- Stefan Molyneux
With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie. -- Molly Ivins
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase. -- Joseph Pilates
One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright. -- Janet Fitch
Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement. -- C.J. Redwine
I don't want to call anyone an outright winner without having seen everything. -- Bun B
You have Donald Trump just making outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue. -- Hillary Clinton
While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability. -- Martin Amis
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright. -- Larry Wall
There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all. -- Sarah Dessen
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. -- Joseph Sobran
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. -- Agnes Repplier
A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy. -- Kingsley Amis
Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright. -- Elias Lyman Magoon
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies. -- James Surowiecki
Belief may be a regrettably unavoidable biological weakness to be kept under the control of criticism: but commitment is for Popper an outright crime. -- Imre Lakatos
Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached? -- Jeffrey Rowland
Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking. -- Arthur Jones
Maybe I did mean to kill myself. I didn't think it outright but...maybe the truth is, I didn't--I don't--much care one way or th'other. -- Moira Young
Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy. -- J. K. Rowling
There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens. -- Scott Adams
Lack of understanding, along with outright anti-Christian prejudice, leads to journalistic amazement or horror at the supposed self-deception of those who do see a spiritual realm. -- Marvin Olasky
Businessmen are notable for a peculiarly stalwart character, which enables them to enjoy without loss of self-reliance the benefits of tariffs, franchises, and even outright government subsidies. -- Herbert J. Muller
Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy. -- J. K. Rowling
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit. -- George Santayana
For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop. -- Ronald Reagan
Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack. -- Maya Angelou
The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values. -- Howard Zinn
[Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left to try to pull this apart. -- Van Jones
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible. -- Ted Nugent
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward. -- J. K. Rowling
Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it. -- Eric Drooker
There is an incredibly large spectrum of possible causes for program bugs, including simple typos, "thinkos," hidden limitations of underlying abstractions, and outright bugs in abstractions or their implementation. -- Guido van Rossum
Horrible Bosses' is just blatant, outright fun. I've read some of what the critics have said, and it's incredible how mean critics can be about comedies... It's so ridiculous. -- Chris Pine
All art points to others with whom the writer argues about what is . . . He must have models with which to agree . . . or outright oppose . . . for Nature seems to remain silence. -- Charles Bartlett Johnson
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst. -- Langdon Brown Gilkey
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition. -- Vance Havner
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. -- J. G. Ballard
It makes me laugh when she says she [Salma Hayek] got offered Selena, which was an outright lie. If that's what she does to get herself publicity than that's her thing -- Jennifer Lopez
One of the most modern pretenders to inspiration is the Book of Mormon. I could not blame you should you laugh outright while I read aloud a page from that farrago. -- Charles Spurgeon
The [CIA] Agency has owned outright more than 240 Media operations around the world, including newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, radio and television stations, and wire services, and has partially controlled many more. -- Michael Parenti
It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). -- Sam Harris
It makes me laugh when she says she [Salma Hayek] got offered Selena, which was an outright lie. If that's what she does to get herself publicity than that's her thing. -- Jennifer Lopez
And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright. -- Omar Khayyam
... Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust. -- Matthew Woodring Stover
The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or destroy it by subsidized government competition, oppressive taxation, or outright expropriation. -- Henry Hazlitt
It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen. -- James Toback
But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright. -- Bob Goff
This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire. -- Tenzin Palmo
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. -- Anna Maxted
Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude - your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are. -- Napoleon Hill
Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. What's up? -- Cassandra Clare
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." -- Anna Maxted
To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson in life for our guys. It shows anything is possible. -- Thad Matta
The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central. -- Lenny Bruce
Far from rejecting outright any hierarchy of success or failure, philosophy instead reconfigures the judging process, lending legitimacy to theidea that themainstream value system may unfairly consign some people to disgrace and others to respectability. -- Alain de Botton

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