Pulling Punches Quotes & Sayings

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy — A. Philip Randolph

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms. — Mark Twain

Personally, I could do without prophecies or quests for awhile. — Rick Riordan

I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches. — Lynn Coady

You do not agree with my quest. I understand that, so much as it is possible to understand someone with whom I disagree so completely. — Brandon Sanderson

Using a big word like 'plagiarism' ... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism. — Michel Houellebecq

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters. — John Lasseter

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction. — Dave Navarro

Whatever it will bring, it will be good to be there, in the Land of Future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

This is who you are. You must be strong. You cannot fail us. If you fail then we all fail and the King of Chaos will rise once again. — Rae Karl

That's the choice: eternal death or eternal life. To gain eternal life, you have to let go of your spiritual pride, and die to yourself. To lead others to Christ, to save them from this eternal judgment, you have to speak that truth in love; you have to tell them the truth without pulling any punches. Does that seem impossible? Will your audience turn you off? Well, as we can see, they turned Jesus off. In fact, they hated His message so much, His own neighbors and relatives, in a rage, tried to kill him for preaching it. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

He wasn't sure himself why he was pulling his punches in this way, but somehow it seemed important not to let Contact know everything, to keep something back. It was a small victory against them a little-game, a gesture on a lesser board; a blow against the elements and the gods. — Iain M. Banks

The things that were needed to keep the imagination free were "all written down in this age of reason." It was time to take the opportunity to use this imagination. All bets were off, "Fire at will." Standing next to the message in Pulling Punches, where there was only the faintest hint of solace, the message in The Ink in the Well seemed to be that in Picasso, Cocteau, and Sartre, a home of sorts had been found that went some way to - if not answering the questions - opening the mind to give the insight possible to find the answers. The references to Sartre and Cocteau were oblique and hidden in the phrase "The blood of a poet, the ink in the well, it's all written down in this age of reason. — Christopher E. Young