Rifles Quotes - Page 7

• I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

  Woody Guthrie

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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• If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Writing, Hanging On

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• The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelop of the storm, and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion.

  Herman Melville

  Profound, Storm, Balls

  Herman Melville (2017). “HERMAN MELVILLE – Premium Collection: 24 Novels & Novellas; With 140+ Poems & Essays: Adventure Classics, Sea Tales & Philosophical Novels, Including Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Confidence-Man…”, p.1796, e-artnow

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• The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.

  Dick Cavett

  Hunting, Animal, Winning

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• You can hire your advisor and then just apply a windage factor, like I used to do when I was a rifle shooter. I'd just adjust for so many miles an hour wind. Or you can learn the basic elements of your advisor's trade. You don't have to learn very much, by the way, because if you learn just a little then you can make him explain why he's right.

  Charlie Munger

  Wind, Elements, Littles

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• Nobody shoulders a rifle in defense of a boarding house.

  Bret Harte

  House, Defense, Shoulders

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• We welcome the National Rifle Association here to Indianapolis. It's tens of thousands of freedom loving Americans. I was grateful to be able to speak to them and interact with them and I really do believe that the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms makes our communities more safe, not less safe.

  Mike Pence

  Grateful, Believe, Law

  "Reaction to Supreme Court ruling on Michigan's ban on race-based college admissions; Gov. Pence talks gun control, Ukraine, political future". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2014.

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• I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives.

  Liam Hemsworth

  Air, Knives, Arrows

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.

  Wade Davis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Sea

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• I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Getting Laid

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• In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, School, Humor

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• It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Protection

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.147, A&C Black

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• [Hamas] lives on their rifles and bombs.

  Shimon Peres

  Bombs, Hamas

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or that hunting be promoted as an alternative lifestyle. It is not the National Rifle Association out lobbying to have government schools read books entitled 'Heather Has Two Hunters' to preschoolers. It is, in fact, the Left that now strives to use state power to impose its morality by forcing all taxpayers to pay for abortions and public "art" that mocks people of faith. It is the Left that forces parents to pay for government schools where they do not wish to send their children.

  Grover Norquist

  Art, Children, Book

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• The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Men, Rights, Issues

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• For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indiansand hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Hunting, Race

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.70, Trajectory Inc

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• This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

  Shane Koyczan

  Voice, Creeds, Jackets

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• California has rules against assault weapons. It's just those rules are inherently so technical and have to do with cosmetic features, you can easily get around them with any sort of semi-automatic rifle.

  Chuck Todd

  Assault Weapons, California, Cosmetics

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service.

  Woody Allen

  Gun, Criminals, Groups

  "Fictional character: Miles Monroe". Sleeper, 1973.

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• When I put the camera back to my eye, I noticed a particular guardsman pointing at me. I said, "I'll get a picture of this," and his rifle went off. And almost simultaneously, as his rifle went off, a halo of dust came off a sculpture next to me, and the bullet lodged in a tree. I dropped my camera in the realization that it was live ammunition. I don't know what gave me the combination of innocence and stupidity... but I never took cover.

  John Filo

  Eye, Dust, Stupidity

  "Photographer John Filo discusses his famous Kent State photograph and the events of May 4, 1970". CNN News Chat, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2000.

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• Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.

  Richard Engel

  Fire, Race, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A lot of the time, because of the polar bears you're not allowed to go outside the door without your hunting rifle, even if it's to go to the local shop. The polar bears will come from nowhere, and you'll be eaten alive.

  Richard Dormer

  Hunting, Doors, Bears

  Source: collider.com

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• The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.

  Clint Smith

  Gun, Needs, Pistols

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• My spiritual pain is unbearable. I keep having the same unsolved question: if my rifle claimed people's lives, then can it be that I a Christian and an Orthodox believer, was to blame for their deaths?

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Christian, Spiritual, Pain

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• No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

  Meg Cabot

  Nice, Meg, Might

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Sanctuary”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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