Quotes of: Blunt Keyword

Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

The Midnight Witch

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Life of Pi

Losing it in the backseat with a can of beer and a blunt, virginity is of no value. I never celebrated my time before chocolate either.

Komrade Komura

The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an equal amount of additional value, there's no net gain.

Charles Platt

As a husband and as a father of girls, I cannot imagine any woman in my family making the sacrifice of sanity required to run for office. The limited reward for public service cannot blunt the cost.

Mark McKinnon

The American people frankly have been, over many, many years - to be blunt - fat, dumb and happy. If they want their children to compete with children in India, China or Korea, they better get them a far better education.

Eli Broad

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.

Robert McFarlane

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

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

John O. Brennan

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.

David Harsanyi

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

Jay Griffiths

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the ...

John Poindexter

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

Alexander Pope

The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.

The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

Robert Teeter

Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Roy Blunt is another white guy in a suit, and I think the public wants change. There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate... and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.

Sarah Steelman

Anyone working at HootSuite will tell you that I don't sugarcoat my opinions. I heavily encourage feedback and suggestions - partly because I'm blunt about offering the same in return.

Ryan Holmes

He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.

Seamus Heaney

Yea I may come across as blunt, but I will say the truth even if its bitter, that's just me. You either hate me for it or respect me for it.

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