Blunt Quotes

218 Blunt quotes by 172 unique authors

A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants. — Grand Puba
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the… — Bill Gates
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives. — Edmund Burke
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between… — Charles Lyell
Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who… — Jimmy Wales
I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips,… — Claes Oldenburg
Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair... — Varg Vikernes
Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose. — James O. Fraser
A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one — Ray Mears
Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief. — Seneca the Younger
Sorry to have to be so blunt, but the country is in mortal danger from our present government and our liberty is already near dead… — Hal Turner
Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions. — Alfred North Whitehead
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness… — A. E. Housman
I smoke a blunt once every blue moon. But hey, the moon looks kinda blue tonight... — Randy Moss
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. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to… — 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

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