Bluffs Quotes - Page 3

As president of the United States, I don't bluff.

Barack Obama

President, United States, States

"Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluff'". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. March 2, 2012.

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It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.

Jonathan Lethem

Way, Destination, Declaration

Jonathan Lethem (2008). “You Don't Love Me Yet”, p.208, Vintage

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Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff

Leonard Bernstein

Wine, Sophistication, Showmanship

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Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.

Mahatma Gandhi

Movement, Drag, Operations

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Never run a bluff with a six-gun.

Bat Masterson

Running, Gun, Six

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The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."

John Dewey

Luck, Degenerates, Doe

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.198, 谷月社

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I was attacked the other night for being grandiose. I would just want you to note: Lincoln standing at Council Bluffs was grandiose. The Wright Brothers standing at Kitty Hawk were grandiose. John F. Kennedy was grandiose. I accept the charge that I am grandiose and that Americans are instinctively grandiose.

Newt Gingrich

Brother, Night, Want

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Love should not be a guessing game. In fact, it shouldn't be a game at all. One should lay all the cards on the table, and be honest with intentions and feelings. And while some may hide and bluff with their cards, the true winners are those that lay their cards down honestly and find what they are looking for because of it.

Carlos Salinas

Love, Cards On The Table, Games

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The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as a nation have to have the debate. I don't know what the answers are. I just know that if the idea is to say talking about it makes you unpatriotic, I've got to call your bluff on that.

George Clooney

Thinking, Talking, Ideas

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Even if you haven't encountered great success yet, there is no reason you can't bluff a little and act like you have. Confidence is a magnet in the best sense of the word. It will draw people to you and make your daily life.. and theirs.. a lot more pleasant.

Donald Trump

Success, People, Littles

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Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.

Leonard Ravenhill

Heart, Blow, Greatness

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Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.

Patrick deWitt

Character, Luck, Way

Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.74, Granta Books

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Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

Joseph Furphy

Art, Player, Stories

Joseph Furphy, Frances Devlin-Glass (1991). “The annotated Such is life: such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins”

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Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they’d use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters.

J. K. Rowling

Dream, Hands, Perfect

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If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are relatively easy to turn out. All that is required is a book of instructions, a certain amount of bluff and bluster, something to use for threatening and punishing purposes, and of course the animal. Educating an animal, on the other hand, demands keen intelligence, integrity, imagination, and the gentle touch, mentally, vocally, and physically.

J. Boone

Dog, Integrity, Book

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Vinyaya was being openly antagonistic, and that was an emotion that could be trusted, unless of course it was a bluff and the commander was a secret fan of his, unless it was a double bluff and she really did feel antagonistic.

Eoin Colfer

Secret, Fans, Emotion

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Let's save some time here. I grow weary of your clumsy bluffs. In the case of an abduction, the LEP will send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.. You have done so. Excuse me while I titter. Crack team? Honestly. A Cub-Scout patrol armed with water pistols could have defeated them.

Eoin Colfer

Team, Water, Cracks

Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.108, Penguin UK

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But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up, higher, higher - then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, passing away. I breathed deeply. I tried to breathe space between my thoughts, find the space between the anger.

Jaimal Yogis

Fall, Rising Up, Space

Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.37, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Dream, Spiritual, Tests

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Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

Marjane Satrapi

Civilization, West, Hunger

Source: www.believermag.com

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