Blunt Quotes
218 quotes by 184 authors
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
— Chinua Achebe
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people…
— Max Beerbohm
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I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out.
— Tupac Shakur
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Just hit the blunt one time and see if it don't change your perception on whats important in your life.
— Katt Williams
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for…
— Thomas Paine
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To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for…
— Eric Hoffer
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The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will…
— Gregory Bateson
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He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.
— William Shakespeare
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Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta…
— Astley Cooper
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Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.
— Alan Dershowitz
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One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich…
— Lewis Henry Steiner
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Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing…
— Orlando Patterson
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I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners
— Nas
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
— Laozi
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All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.
— Albert Einstein
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Do you remember a little phenom called step aerobics? If you do, then you know how crazy it was to take two ninety-minute classes in…
— Kathy Griffin
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I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.
— James Blunt
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
— Pat Metheny
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Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Who Wrote These Blunt Quotes
184 authors contributed a total of 218 Blunt Quotes, led by these top contributors: