Blunt Truths Quotes

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

Alexander Pope

#2. When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.

Billy Collins

#3. My shower doesn't make everything go away. The world doesn't feel like a bigger, brighter place because my hair smells like coconuts.

Jolene Perry

#4. A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'

Annalena McAfee

#6. I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.

David Sedaris

#7. To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.

Barbara Tuchman

#8. At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are?
-Richard

Douglas Coupland

#9. There is no honor in dying of

John Green

#10. Cinders, I would've thought you of all people would know better. There are no wicked stepmothers and there are no fairy godmothers, and there are no Prince Charmings. There in no preordained destiny. You get to decide that. You decide your destiny.
- V

Gayle Forman

#11. It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. Death is what happens when you die.

Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

#13. If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.

Rumi

#14. We need to repeal and replace Dodd-Frank. We need to make America fair again for all businesses, but especially those being run by small business owners.

Marco Rubio

#15. I auditioned for 'American Idol' at 17. They told me, 'No.'

Amber Riley