Bluff Quotes

52 quotes by 48 authors

But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up,… — Jaimal Yogis
Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff. — Henry A. Kissinger
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency. — Bob Dylan
The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the… — Marcus Garvey
The whole world is run on bluff. — Marcus Garvey
In Asia we face an ambitious and aggressive China, but we have the will and we have the strength to help our Asian friends resist… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower falls,… — H P Lovecraft
When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they… — Orison Swett Marden
Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."… — George W. Bush
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters… — Mahatma Gandhi
After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. — Jonathan Lethem
Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of course it was a bluff and the commander was… — Eoin Colfer
Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,â€ Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. â€œI thought it was… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling… — Patrick deWitt
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion… — Carl Sagan

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