Blunt Quotes

218 quotes by 172 authors

Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we… — Claude Bernard
Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it.Â So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty… — Gary North
Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your… — Laozi
This is what noir is, what it can be when it stops playing nice--blunt force drama stripped down to the bone, then made to dance… — Stephen Graham Jones
I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died. — Jimmy Swaggart
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it… — Edsger Dijkstra
Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit… — Madeleine Stowe
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and… — Laozi
Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such choices… — Katherine Boo
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of… — John Ford
Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt. — Anne Hathaway
I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues… — Elizabeth Warren
I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything. — Roy Blunt
The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone. — John Lyly
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into… — Kenny Smith
On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt." — Coolio
Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles,… — Martina Navratilova
Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to… — Unknown Author
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise… — Joseph Conrad
I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,… — Agatha Christie

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