Blunt Quotes

218 quotes by 184 authors

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. — Chinua Achebe
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
I smoke blunt to take the pain out and if I wasn't high I'd probably blow my brains out. — Tupac Shakur
Just hit the blunt one time and see if it don't change your perception on whats important in your life. — Katt Williams
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
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
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
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
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
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
Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz
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
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
I rap for listeners, blunt heads, fly ladies and prisoners — Nas
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. — Laozi
All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit. — Albert Einstein
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
I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man. — James Blunt
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny
Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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