The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge, but all economies know that the only sensible long term way of developing is to do it on a sustainable basis.
I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.
Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.
I know I'm a pop star. But sometime I'd like to be a rock star.
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough.
All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.
A blunt a day will take the pain away.
If we blunt Russian efforts now to be aggressive, we may be pleasantly surprised by the policy options that become available to us, in terms of working with a better Russia.
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.
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
I'm pretty sure Adele and James Blunt were dumped by the same man.
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.
The notion that "this too shall pass" is comforting, both in knowing that whatever pain I'm in will change into something else and allowing myself to experience the pain, not trying to blunt it or brush it aside. It's important to feel and to be connected to your emotions, whichever way they play out.
Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way.
I separated myself in Prada because I didn't want to have fun. They were all having a lot of fun - Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci - and they were a little coterie of laughs.
There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.
Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.
