Blunt Quotes · Page 5

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

— Eric Topol

Australians are pretty blunt and we say things how they really are.

— Charlie Bell

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

— Pink

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

— Blaise Pascal

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed.

— Epictetus

“A brick could be used as a device to deliver bad news. Sometimes it's better to be blunt.
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— Jarod Kintz

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

— Pat Conroy

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

— Anne Hathaway

I found early on in teaching, if you're too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you're just being mean.…

— Tim Gunn

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and…

— Max Beerbohm

The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for…

— Bernie Sanders

I understand the all black or all white look (to be perfectly blunt, it's easy and you don't have to think about…

— Tim Gunn

We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon.…

— Barry Ritholtz

Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can't attract enough employees. That's the free market, that's how…

— Pierre Poilievre

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What…

— Jim Boeheim

This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then…

— Stephen Graham Jones

Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such…

— Margaret Fuller

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia…

— Evgeny Morozov

The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?'…

— Grace Slick

It's easy for people to be characterized in public life based upon their personality, and I have a very direct, blunt personality.…

— Chris Christie

For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. By teaching…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The notion that "this too shall pass" is comforting, both in knowing that whatever pain I'm in will change into something else…

— Patrick Fabian

Singing in second language makes you brave in a way you're not aware of. You say things in very blunt ways or…

— Anna Ternheim

Really, Donald Trump's entire message is that people like Sen. Blunt are the problem.

— Jason Kander

Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.

— David Clement-Davies

A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.

— John Flavel

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just…

— Anonymous

Mean? Me? No, I'm just quite blunt when it comes to someone I don't like.

— Jhiess Krieg

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."

— Coolio

I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.

— Tracy McMillan

All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

— Albert Einstein

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.

— Tupac Shakur

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

People beat around the bush so much, and I try to be really blunt in my music.

— Blackbear

Being blunt will make you lose most friends, but the TRUE ones are the ones who will stay.

— Anonymous

“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

— Claudia Rankine

The olny bad thing about a Blunt is that when your done with it you have to give it away.

— Kidd Haze

I prefer being blunt in texts than smothering people with kisses.

— Anonymous