(57 quotes found)
“To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.”
Walter Savage Landor
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”
Chinua Achebe
“If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.”
Richard M. Nixon
“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.”
Stacey Charter
“It's a very blunt instrument, especially in a highly charged political atmosphere.”
John Walsh
“We can talk until we're blue in the face, but the fact is that it's a blunt instrument. The RPI is just one of a great many tools that we use.”
Bob Bowlsby
“We can talk until we're blue in the face, but the fact is that it's a blunt instrument, ... The RPI is just one of a great many tools that we use.”
“Vaccines, if they can blunt that initial, enormous burst of virus production early on, even if it doesn't prevent initial infection, may dramatically alter the course of infection,”
Anthony Fauci
“This slate is not going to be the new broom to sweep clean. There's no indication that Boehner and Blunt have ever bucked this way of looking at things or doing business. They have been part of the K Street clique.”
Celia Wexler