Bluffs Quotes
48 quotes by 43 authors
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm not like a poker player. I'm not into bluff. My way is to look someone in the eye and tell them the way I'm…
— Tori Amos
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Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
— David Seabury
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One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
— William McFee
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Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
— Leonard Bernstein
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Love should not be a guessing game. In fact, it shouldn't be a game at all. One should lay all the cards on the table,…
— Carlos Salinas de Gortari
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Not too many players try to bluff me. If there’s going to be bluffing or stealing going on, I’m  going to be the one…
— Johnny Chan
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I was attacked the other night for being grandiose. I would just want you to note: Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was grandiose. The Wright…
— Newt Gingrich
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The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine…
— John Dewey
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Never run a bluff with a six-gun.
— Bat Masterson
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Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was…
— Charles Dickens
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Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For…
— Chris Moneymaker
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Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a…
— Donald Trump
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A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims…
— John Edensor Littlewood
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Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
— Knute Nelson
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Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff…
— Patrick deWitt
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You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.
— Sam Farha
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Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity.…
— Joseph Furphy
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