Blustered Quotes

#1. Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.

John Pipkin

#2. The British Army and Navy sang a rousing song called "Heart of Oak"; the rebels had writ one to counter it called "The Liberty Song." Both songs blustered of freedom; but both were sung to the same tune.
And we, to avoid offense, played the tune without words.

M T Anderson

#3. Authors were, at heart, no matter how much they blustered or how suavely they carried themselves, insecure creatures with sensitive egos, as delicate in the constitution as movie stars, only much poorer and less glamorous.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#4. Showing the skills more of a high-school debater than a barrister, Brandis blustered in the Senate that 'people do have a right to be bigots'.

Peter Van Onselen

#5. Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

John Calvin

#6. The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.

Kit Bond

#7. Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

Cynthia Nixon

#8. When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Charles Bukowski

#9. I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

James G. Stavridis

#10. Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.

Nicholas Negroponte

#11. I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit ... when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

D.H. Lawrence