Bluntest Or Most Blunt Quotes & Sayings

But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once ... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable ... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it. — Diane Duane

It is certain that there can be no work in political economy on any other than an altruistic basis... If our work is to retain any meaning it can only be informed by this: concern for the future, for those who will come after us. — Max Weber

Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals. — Alison Lurie

Just do what you were going to do, before you said you were going to do it. — Delma Pryce

One doesn't go on television for the Manhattan crowd. You buy the sides of buses for that. — Mitch Leigh

I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say. — Khalil Gibran

A workman who wants to do his work well must first prepare his tools. — Confucius

The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want. — James Richardson

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. — Louisa May Alcott

Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end? — Lee Smith

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could. — Erica Jong

Best to help such boys have their moment of fun, before life's torments snatched them. — Larry McMurtry