Your Bluntness Quotes

#1. Yes," Sicarius said. "We must act alone. And soon. You may be dead by morning."
"Have I mentioned how endearing your bluntness is?

Lindsay Buroker

#2. She, on the other hand, had blatantly exhibited the Sagittarius traits of excessive enthusiasm and bluntness. Mr.

Nina Lane

#3. Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world.

Allen Klein

#4. Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.

Nigella Lawson

#5. If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.

Ellen Terry

#6. I'm always open to discussing collaborations.

Cam Newton

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

John O. Brennan

#8. Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on.

Steve Scott

#9. And why does every deliberately cruel person seem to consider themselves the perfect example of necessary bluntness? As if you're supposed to thank them for mowing over your heart with their special brand of honesty.

Mia Sheridan

#10. Whoever said that time blunts all pain did not quite understand that bluntness can wound as grievously as sharp points and edges;

Neel Mukherjee

#11. The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!

Shannon L. Alder

#12. I think old age is nature's way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.

Terry Goodkind

#13. You don't mince words."
"Just garlic.

Joan Bauer

#14. You don't know your child until they get here; you don't know their personality.

Ciara

#15. He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?"
"He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness startled Tessa.
"What a beautiful thing to hear.

Cassandra Clare

#16. Mr. Gabriel Parsons led the way to the house. He was a sugar-baker, who mistook rudeness for honesty, and abrupt bluntness for an open and candid manner; many besides Gabriel mistake bluntness for sincerity.

Charles Dickens

#17. Why would you ever premedicate honesty? To hesitate is to overthink how you feel. A blurted out answer is usually the most genuine.

Shannon L. Alder

#18. To be a good manager of people requires both fairness and bluntness.

James Cook

#19. He grinned. "Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless - and shockingly handsome - alter ego."
"And I'm on top of it," she announced with witty triumph.
"Is that a Freudian slip?"
His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#20. If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

David Eller

#21. If you don't find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don't want to ruin the evening.

Shannon L. Alder

#22. With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

April Mae Monterrosa

#23. I stand behind what I say. If I don't want it to be out there then I won't say it. I am not out to hurt somebody. I am out to call attention to certain things but I am also out to make people laugh with my delivery and style of bluntness.

Michelle Visage

#24. The complexity of a subject, if crucial for understanding the story, needs to be shown in the visualisation. Thus, in many cases, clarifying a subject requires increasing the amount of information, not reducing it.

Alberto Cairo

#25. Since we're all snails riding on the razor's edge, we might as well say it as it is.

Peter Tieryas

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

#27. Virgil put it with Roman bluntness and economy. Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat? cried Aeneas's comrade as they fought their way out of burning Troy disguised in Greek armor; which may be loosely translated: It won't matter to the enemy whether you beat him by guile or by valor.

Thaddeus Holt

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

Edward W. Robertson

#29. Reader, if thou intendest to go any farther, I would entreat thee to stay here a little. If thou art, as many in this pretending age, a sign or title gazer, and comest into books as Cato into the theatre, to go out again, - thou hast had thy entertainment; farewell!

John Owen

#30. Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Brooke Shields

#31. I've found that being blunt sometimes makes life easier for everyone

Matthew Quick

#32. Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy ... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from.

Brent Smith

#33. That sentence is: "Nothing is to be clung to as I, me, or mine." In other words, no attachments - especially to fixed ideas of yourself and who you are.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#34. If God didn't want me to cross boundaries, then he wouldn't have made me a writer.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you're not saying 'no' to yourself.

Paulo Coelho

#36. People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

Milan Kundera

#37. No one who is young is ever going to be old.

John Steinbeck

#38. Why does every deliberately cruel person describe themselves as the perfect example of necessary bluntness?

Mia Sheridan

#39. If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough.

Catherine Friend