Bluster Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march…
— Sun Tzu
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Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young,…
— Padgett Powell
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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to…
— Jimmy Carter
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A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of…
— Evan Thomas
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We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our…
— Robert Grudin
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They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten;…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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Real confidence has no bluster or bombast. It's not rooted in a desire to seem better than everyone else and it's not driven by a…
— Rob Brezsny
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America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve.
— Barack Obama
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True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
— Ryan Holiday
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If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to…
— J. Boone
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It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes,…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be…
— John Sununu
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Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on…
— Daphne du Maurier
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A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am…
— Markus Zusak
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I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream…
— Richard Siken
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Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on…
— Robert Kennedy
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Anzac Day, it seems, must now be done with bluster, hoopla and media hypnotism.
— Michael Leunig
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Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act.…
— Arthur L. Herman
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My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his…
— Dick Armey
Who Wrote These Bluster Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 Bluster Quotes as follows: