Quotes About Bluffs

#1. The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.

Saul Bellow

#2. Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

Christopher Bollen

#3. It was possible, as far as they knew, that the western shore, which in fifty years' time would be christened New Jersey, was in fact the backdoor of China, that India, with its steamy profusion of gods and curries, lay just beyond those bluffs.

Russell Shorto

#4. Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the exceeding greatness of God's power to us.

Leonard Ravenhill

#5. Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

Joseph Furphy

#6. We arrived at Council Bluffs at dawn; I looked out. All winter I'd been reading of the great wagon parties that held council there before hitting the Oregon and Santa Fe trails; and of course now it was only cute suburban cottages of one damn kind and another,

Jack Kerouac

#7. Are there many little boys who think they are a
Monster? But in my case I am right said Geryon to the
Dog they were sitting on the bluffs The dog regarded him
Joyfully

Anne Carson

#8. A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

Mao Zedong

#9. He took the 101 out to the Valley and then the 405 north to the 118 and west. He got off in Chatsworth and drove into the rocky bluffs at the top corner of the Valley.

Michael Connelly

#10. There is a connection between boredom and the desire for chaos. Despite many disguises and bluffs perhaps she had never stopped wanting chaos.

Zadie Smith

#11. Especially when ultimate decisions of peace and war are involved, a strategist must be aware that bluffs may be called and must take into account the impact on his future credibility of an empty threat.

Henry Kissinger

#12. Rule 1 for Mortals: Love the Lord your God (with every bit of you).
Rule 2 for Mortals: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Tip 1 for Mortals: Ask God to call your bluffs.

N.D. Wilson

#13. In foreign policy, even if you hold high office, you can't be sure what the effects will be of the things you do.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#14. Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

Henry A. Kissinger

#16. The next evening found me having breakfast with a ridiculously hot guy. It was typical of my life that this would only happen when said guy was tied up.

Helen Keeble

#17. You can't bluff someone that's not paying attention.

Joe Mantegna

#18. You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.

Sam Farha

#19. I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home.
Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup:

Groucho Marx

#20. Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

Leonard Bernstein

#21. As president of the United States, I don't bluff.

Barack Obama

#22. Yes, it is an interesting instance of a throwback, which appears to be both physical and spiritual.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#23. I prefer to be left alone with my books.

Alison Weir

#24. When you bluff, someone may call you on it.

Mike Brady

#25. In order to serve its purpose, a vision has to be a shared vision.

Warren G. Bennis

#26. If you never bluff, you'll rarely get called. If you bluff all the time, you'll always get called.

Phil Hellmuth

#27. I stay in that state of mind for the next couple of days, in the places that only exist in the past. The things you can't undo get lodged in the darkest corners of your mind, where nothing ever seems to get solved, just recycled into new anxiety.

Caroline Burau

#28. Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

D.H. Lawrence

#29. If you are going to bluff, make it a big one.

Amarillo Slim

#30. You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.

Carla Harris