Bluster Quotes - Page 2

• A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster - I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result.

  Markus Zusak

  Calm, Reassuring, Violent

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.6, RH Childrens Books

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• What [Barack Obama] and I did was to say clearly what we're doing, all the bluster, all of the sanctions, that are just imposed by the American government haven't had much impact.Let's see if we can put together an international coalition to really cripple Iran, and then maybe we can begin a negotiation, and that's what I did. It was difficult. We had to get China and Russia on board, and not just get them on board by signing a piece of paper.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iran, Impact, Russia

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Donald Trump bigotry, his bluster, his bullying, have become his campaign.

  Hillary Clinton

  Bullying, Campaigns, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Care, Noise, Affection

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.574

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• Religion has accepted the monstrous heresy that noise, size, activity and bluster make a man dear to God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Noise, Size

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• Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

  Richard Siken

  Sides, Sometimes, Ends

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• They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won't do it.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Discipline, Giving, Over You

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

  Padgett Powell

  Thinking, Youth, Young

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Numbers

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• I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be flattering, but that’s okay. We dream and dream of being seen as we really are and then finally someone looks at us and sees us truly and we fail to measure up. Anyway: story received, story included. You looked at me long enough to see something mysterioso under all the gruff and bluster. Thanks. Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

  Richard Siken

  Dream, Thinking, Long

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• I find it deeply disturbing that someone wanting to be president of the United States would talk the way Donald Trump talks, use the rhetoric, the demagoguery, the bigotry and the bluster and the bullying that he has demonstrated.

  Hillary Clinton

  Bullying, President, Way

  Source: www.9news.com

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