Blunt Quotes

Blunt Quote of the day

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.

I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.

I smoke a blunt once every blue moon. But hey, the moon looks kinda blue tonight.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

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, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.

People think you're being dishonest because you're just too blunt.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

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 them.

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 with ten blunt axes instead.

A blunt blade is more dangerous than a sharp one

A blunt a day will take the pain away.

Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt.

Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

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 have the use of both kinds.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

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 the former and the existing causes of change.

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt."

I guess I'm one of those girls who can be too honest about things for my own good, but I expect it back. I expect people to be honest and blunt with me, too.

Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.

Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.

The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'

If you're analytical, you have to be blunt. That's by definition. You can't analyze something and not be blunt about it. What would you rather hear if not the truth?

Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.

The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.

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 were resolved years ago - until the Republicans brought them back.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.

The politician is trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.

He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

A forty and a blunt, that's all she really wants.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

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 up.

Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.

What did you have in mind? A short, blunt human pyramid?

Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.