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The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance. — Peter L. Berger

There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey. — Ali Larter

Small change can often be found under seat cushions. — Robert A. Heinlein

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things. — Christopher Ricks

Jesus did not stand as a prophet and utter judgements; wherever He went the unerring directness of His presence located men. — Oswald Chambers

Directness often disguised as much as it revealed, and was a marvelous defense. — Julie Anne Long

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up. — Marge Kennedy

I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear. — Henry Rollins

In their simplicity and directness [neon signage is] a kind of urban iconography with which we can identify on many levels. - Rudi Stern — Philip Di Lemme

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The vulgar directness of the question called for a direct answer. — Oscar Wilde

There are so many random questions in life, but the important ones harldy have a random answer. — Shannon L. Alder

Real men don't dance to other people's tune, instead, they play for others to dance. — Michael Bassey

A lot of people take too much directness as rudeness, especially from a woman. — Laurell K. Hamilton

So that's how you know Donovan. You knew his father."
Warren nodded. "Daniel Caine, a fine man. Donovan is too. But he's not the one for you. — Jennifer Estep

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else. — Chad Harbach

Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements. — Serj Tankian

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw. — Jacques Barzun

We magnetize into our lives whatever we hold in our thought. — Richard Bach

It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. — Marshall McLuhan

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow. — Victor Hugo

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret. — Susan Sontag

Fear finds an excuse while faith finds a way. — Seth Adam Smith

When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking. — Shannon L. Alder

I dinna trust that Q, that's a letter than has it in for a man. That's a letter with a sting, that one! — Terry Pratchett

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. — John Dewey

If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow. — Henry David Thoreau

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
Outside The Whale (Granta, 1984) — Salman Rushdie

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare. — Heinrich Heine

The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it. — Tove Lo

We can no longer rely on the rules of the past to win. — Josh Linkner

While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it. — Stephanie Zacharek

She wasn't stupid. She just didn't want to put her neuron power into long sentences. — Margaret Atwood

Her pussy just fell on your dick? — Whitney G.