Quotes of Straightforward - somelinesforyou

“ The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less. ”

- Piet Hein

“ I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it. ”

- Sir Lawrence Olivier

“ I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm going to be blunt and plain: if one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died. ”

- Jimmy Swaggart

“ It has been a fantastic victory. We have shown we are the party of the future. This decade can see us as part of the governments of our country. ”

- Charles Kennedy

“ Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door. ”

- Vernon Howard

“ It's just a simple lifestyle. ”

- Patty Davis

“ We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. ”

- Vicente Fox

“ Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! ”

- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“ And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same. ”

- Norman McLaren

“ As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. ”

- Buddha

“ If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. ”

- Richard M. Nixon

“ The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power. ”

- Paul Wellstone

“ I am open to everything. ”

- Luciano Pavarotti

“ The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. ”

- Maria Edgeworth

“ We're just going to make them more honest out here. ”

- Gene Brown

“ I take a simple view of living. It is, keep your eyes open and get on with it. ”

- Sir Laurence Olivier

“ A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. ”

- Cornel West

“ I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this. ”

- Louisa May Alcott

“ This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky. ”

- James Agee

“ Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ Keep it simple. ”

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

“ The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. ”

- Frederick Douglass

“ The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct. ”

- Bible

“ I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks. ”

- Jerry Mathers

“ I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated? ”

- Kristin Scott Thomas

“ George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. ”

- Christopher Lasch

“ I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why. ”

- Dizzy Dean

“ Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad. ”

- Mitch Miller

“ To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen. ”

- Quintus Ennius
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