Quotes About Blunt Truth

#1. Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

Sheryl Sandberg

#2. 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, but all economies know that the only sensible long term way of developing is to do it on a sustainable basis.

Tony Blair

#3. Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

Chris Cleave

#5. Even the purest and most high-minded scientist finds it expedient sometimes to assault the fortress of truth with the blunt weapon of trail and error. sometimes it works beautifully.

Isaac Asimov

#6. 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?

Jim Boeheim

#7. You can't be spontaneous within reason.

Brittany DeLaBarrera

#8. Moreover a blunt and stolid regard for literal truth indisposes them to make those lavish promises by which the more judicious Circle can in a moment pacify his consort. The result is massacre;

Edwin A. Abbott

#9. It's strange how you can know something - know the pointy, sharp truth - but still want to bend and blunt the edges so it fits better in your mind.

Veronica Rossi

#10. Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration ... and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose - as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

Joseph Conrad

#11. Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject ...

T. S. Eliot

#12. Cool. I'm Kathryn, but everyone calls me Kat. And do not make any cat jokes or I'll have to hurt you. With my claws." she waved the long, blunt tips of her fingers at me. "Truth be told, I stopped speaking meow a long time ago." speaking meow? "I'm guessing calling you pretty kitty is out.

Gena Showalter

#13. Truth is the first casualty of war.

Sophie Masson

#14. At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.

Sue Grafton

#15. 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

#16. The way he talked to her. It was outrageous. It was blunt. It was impossible. And it was ... precisely what she needed, the truth boned and filleted without garnish or flourish, placed in front of her for her decision. He made her wants seem ordinary instead of dark and dangerous.

Courtney Milan

#17. Motherhood is still the great unknown. For some, it brings incomparable happiness and enriches their identity. Others manage as best they can to reconcile contradictory demands.

Elisabeth Badinter

#18. 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.

Tilicia Haridat

#19. Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

Irwin Shaw

#20. I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

Natalie Massenet

#21. A lot of people who are straight-shooting ... they're only happy to be so blunt when talking about others. They're not so upfront about who they are, what flaws they have, and what their issues are.

Suzanne Wright

#22. So much does suffering blunt even the coarsest sensations of men

Mary Shelley

#23. Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Blaise Pascal

#24. It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers.

Washington Irving

#25. Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?

Edward W. Robertson

#26. If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change? If you are not satisfied, why not experiment?

Dale Carnegie

#27. My career is very important and I'm pretty ambitious. Marriage is not a priority, not the focus of my existence. Of course, you don't plan something like that, do you? It always catches you by surprise.

Megan Gallagher

#28. There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

Suzy Kassem

#29. 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

#30. She'd always been blunt, to the point that people sometimes mistook her for cold. In truth, she was one of the warmest people he had ever met.

Marcus Sakey