Outed Quotes & Sayings

All right, I had been seen in flagrante iugulo and had every right to expect that I would be instantly outed and arrested. — Jeff Lindsay

You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army. — Des Browne

The Cantrip agents were more interesting. He didn't know as much about Cantrip, as it was an even newer agency than Homeland Security, having come into being when the werewolves outed themselves. — Patricia Briggs

I think the addiction stuff, because I was already sort of outed in my family as a sexual person: as a sexually-adventurous and sexually-conflicted person and sexually-driven person. They already knew that about me. They knew that about me when I was eleven. My parents very consciously tried to provide an environment that would protect me from becoming a drug addict. — Melissa Febos

I sometimes like to daydream that if we were all somehow simultaneously outed as lechers and perverts and sentimental slobs, it might be, after the initial shock of disillusionment, liberating. It might be a relief to quit maintaining the rigid pose of normalcy and own up to the outlaws and monsters we are. — Tim Kreider

Make a little effort to give up your insignificant quarrels and eventually a better world will follow. — Abhijit Naskar

His hand spread itself out flat on the table. I paused and took another good look at him. There was something otherworldly about him, the way that he sat, the way he used this one hand to gesture. It was the decorum primitive people often have that makes them seem repositors of immense wisdom, when in fact all they possess is immense conviction. — Anne Rice

When I was outed, it was like, That's done. — Billie Jean King

Someone outed me when I was 20, and I thought, 'Well, that's out there now ... ' Nobody made a massive fuss because I wasn't very well known. — Russell Tovey

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction. — Mayim Bialik

Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems. — David D. Burns

I walk in just as the bell is ringing, and I'm in a serious daze. It's lucky that my hands seem to know my locker combination, because my brain has checked out. People talk to me, and I nod along, but absolutely nothing penetrates. — Becky Albertalli

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers. — Barbara Kingsolver

It is about time that, atheist or no, we call a spade a spade, and outed lies, and suspicious statements are placed against the backdrop of a linguistic litmus test. — Leviak B. Kelly

I think they could teach us unimaginable things.
Unimaginable! I can't imagine anything except danger.
I know. That's why they're afraid of you. — Patricia A. McKillip

If some people are "outed," are other people "inned"? Can we say that someone has been "besided" or "overed"? — David Sedaris

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. — Euripides

You totally just outed us to the criminals.
-Ty to Zane — Abigail Roux

Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion. — Martin Amis

I have never been outed by anyone but myself! — Jonathan Knight

Why is being outed such a big deal? When I find out that someone's gay, my respect for them increases tenfold. — Scott Thompson

At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had stopped speaking to people I didn't know. — Marlon James

New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the Reverend Ted Haggard, was outed for drugs and extramarital gay sex with a male prostitute. Or as Fox News reported it, 'John Kerry hates our troops'. — Bill Maher

Just being a good person doesn't necessarily entitle you to a good life. — Susan Wiggs

Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the confused inner life of men. In war, the sad tidy constructs we make to help us believe life is orderly and controllable are roughly thrown aside like the delusions they are. In war, love is outed as an insane, insupportable emotion, a kind of luxury emotion, because everywhere you look, someone beloved to someone is being slaughtered, by someone whose own beloved has been slaughtered, or will be, or could be. — George Saunders

It was 1538 and John Lambert had been outed as an Edian when, after hearing Frederic Clarence had written a pamphlet denouncing Edian magic, he turned into a dog and ate the papers, prompting Clarence to cry out, "That dog ate my scriptwork!" (277) — Cynthia Hand

I was born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1941, the eldest of four sons. — David Gross

One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name. — Karen DeCrow

You know, people always look at that headline as me being "outed," but you can ask anyone, I couldn't even find a closet with a map! — Ashlyn Kane

Value is more expensive than price. — Toba Beta

Everybody's angry with me because, apparently, I outed my cousin during an argument over a turkey leg. My cousin goes, 'You had the last leg.' I was like, 'You're gay. — Dov Davidoff

The sound of a kiss is not as strong as that of a cannon, but its echo endures much longer. — Richard Paul Evans

I've been outed as a Christian. — Jim Gaffigan

When we get to the point where a gay pro athlete is no longer forced to live in fear that he'll be shunned by teammates or outed by tabloids, when we get to the point where he plays while his significant other waits in the family room, when we get to the point where he's not compelled to hide his true self and is able to live an authentic life, then coming out won't be such a big deal. But we're not there yet, — Jason Collins

Ty smiled slowly and took a step toward him. "You totally just outed us to the criminals," he said as he pointed a finger at Zane (Armed & Danderous) — Abigail Roux

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready. — Billie Jean King