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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed. — Robert Frost
Possessed by what we now no more possessed. — Robert Frost
Since when has outright denial of truth become a Nigerian factor?
— Sunday Adelaja
Art ... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
— Agnes Repplier
It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child.
— Augusten Burroughs
Half-truths are worth more than outright lies.
— George R R Martin
Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
— Gary Weiss
The problem with absolutely perfect summer days was that they were bright bull's-eye targets for something to go outright wrong.
— Jodi Picoult
Half-truths can be as deceptive as outright lies.
— David Limbaugh
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
If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.
— Jonathan Zittrain
My attempts at brushing him off were three counties past the border of outright rude, but nothing fazed him.
— A&E Kirk
Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods.
— Wendy Lesser
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
— Joseph Sobran
Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and outright lies he'd fed them
— Philip Reeve
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
— Jean Racine
There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.
— Sarah Dessen
Lying is sometimes acted, insinuated, or implied, in a manner as injurious and shameful as when the falsehood is spoken outright.
— Elias Lyman Magoon
People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
— Wendell Berry
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
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.
— Olusegun Obasanjo
The majority of important things cannot be said outright, they cannot be made explicit. They can only be implied.
— Patrick Rothfuss
It's his voice that I remember, certainly: my father's voice, low and slow, how he would chuckle sometimes or laugh outright.
— Stephen King
Class warfare is an artificial division created for political advantage, and it should be rejected outright
— Ben Carson
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
A lot of people respond to almost any achievement, positive development, or outright victory with "yes but". Naysaying becomes a habit.
— Rebecca Solnit
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
Well, Brekker, it's obvious you only deal in half-truths and outright lies, so you're clearly the man for the job.
— Leigh Bardugo
The problem with human beings is we think we can wear too many hats at once. It's not possible. It's an outright fashion disaster.
— Joan Bauer
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
An opportunist disguised as a friend can be every bit as dangerous as an outright enemy.
— Ransom Riggs
Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home.
— Nayef Al-Rodhan
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
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
— Helen Keller
My point,' I said, 'is that there's hell in every handshake, never mind an outright and humiliating insult.
— Thomas Ligotti
I felt, if not outright dirty, at least a bit - dusty.
— James Kirkwood Jr.
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
The credit reporting system suffers from inaccuracy and often from outright injustice.
— Eric Schneiderman
You have Donald Trump just making outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue.
— Hillary Clinton
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.
— Joseph Pilates
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
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
I don't
much care one way or th'other. — Moira Young
He had a point, but I wasn't sure it was much better than Elora's. She worked more of a con job, and Oren proposed outright theft.
— Amanda Hocking
In reality, the [American legal] system promotes chicanery, outright deceit, and other egregious conduct by trial lawyers.
— Jon Krakauer
A blonde girl wearing a man's shirt but in all other visible respects unmanly to the point of outright effeminacy.
— Kingsley Amis
The only problem with unrestricted choice, however, is that it tends not to lie so far from outright chaos.
— Alain De Botton
While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw - that of outright unreadability.
— Martin Amis
Sometimes you caught a break, but outright freebies?
Never. — Stephen King
Never. — Stephen King
Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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
If Sam told him, I'd have to kill Sam. Since I didn't have the stomach for outright murder, I'd break his coffee maker.
— Melissa Haag
The ritual denunciation of the so-called 'socialist' states is replete with distortions and often outright lies.
— Noam Chomsky
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.
— Larry Wall
She laughs outright. And I love the sound. Makes me think of tickling her. In bed. While she's naked. Lying on top of me.
— M. Leighton
Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain.
— William Shakespeare