Bombs Quotes - Page 26

• It's a bomb. Just like you.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Like You

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.194, Scholastic Inc.

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• Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb

  Stanley Bing

  Anger, Needs, Fuel

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• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

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• If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything that You have created. If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is 460,000,000 years old. It could end in an afternoon.

  Arundhati Roy

  Religious, Peace, Men

  "The End of Imagination". Book by Arundhati Roy, 1998.

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• If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  War, Science, Thank God

  Song: Thank God For The Bomb, Album: The Ultimate Sin

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• Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

  Hugh Gaitskell

  Science, Tests, Courses

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• We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Science, Mermaid, Want

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• I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Strength, Home

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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• The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Truth, Church, Basements

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• Sexually? Your late 40s and 50s? The bomb!

  Sheryl Underwood

  Age, Late, Sexually

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• I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.

  Dudley Randall

  Time, Lying, Ocean

  1968 Cities Burning,'Roses and Revolutions'.

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• The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

  Enrico Fermi

  Believe, Thinking, Light

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• And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name as Hindus, Russians, or what you will. It is so much easier to label people, for then you can pass by and kick them, drop a bomb on India or Japan.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Japan, Names

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• You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he hates America, he loves mistresses, and he wears a beret. He is French, people.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Laughter, Hate

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• It has passed over mountain ranges and
  The waters of the seven seas.
  It has shown upon laborers in the fields,
  Into the windows of homes,
  And shops, and factories.
  
  It has beheld cities with gleaming towers,
  And also the hovels of the poor.
  It has been witness to both good and evil,
  The works of honest men and women and
  The conspiracy of knaves.
  
  It has seen marching armies, bomb-blasted villages
  And "the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
  Now, unsullied from its tireless journey,
  It comes to us,
  Messenger of the morning.
  Harbinger of a new day.

  Clinton Lee Scott

  Morning, Home, Army

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• The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

  Arthur Miller

  Carpe Diem, Window, Tick

  1964 Quentin. After the Fall, act1.

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• Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough sins left for everyone to commit after we have taken nuclear bombs away from ourselves.

  Jonathan Schell

  Dream, Taken, Goal

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• We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

  Jo Nesbo

  Cutting, Understanding, Disease

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House

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• If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.

  Billy Rose

  Atoms, Plant, Certain

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• I couldn't have thrown that bomb. I was at home making bombs

  Louis Lingg

  Home, Thrown

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• We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Humor, Simple

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• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.

  Yochai Benkler

  Israel, Years, Facts

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Upon its debut, The Room was a spectacular bomb, pulling in all of $1,800 during its initial two-week Los Angeles run. It wasn't until the last weekend of the film's short release that the seeds of its eventual cultural salvation were planted. While passing a movie theater, two young film students named Michael Rousselet and Scott Gairdner noticed a sign on the ticket booth that read: NO REFUNDS. Below the sign was this blurb from a review: “Watching this film is like getting stabbed in the head.” They were sold.

  Greg Sestero

  Running, Weekend, Two

  Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell (2014). “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Country, Order, People

  Conversation with Bill Moyers, June 20, 2014.

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• There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

  Irwin Redlener

  War, Mind, Transition

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