Firing Quotes - Page 7

• It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.

  Markus Zusak

  Russia, Cities, Snow

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.351, Random House

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• What Dino spent most of his time doing was hiring and firing new managers. Since he ditched William Tiero three-plus years ago, he just want through these poor guys like you go through a bag of M&M's when you've got your period. Consume, and on the the next.

  Deb Caletti

  Years, Guy, Three

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated, with the literalness of utter innocence, into the throwing of the bomb, the shouting of the proud slogan, the dragging away of the young dreamer-doer, still smiling, to the dungeon and the firing squad.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Past, Squad

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens the sound of its firing. Now, even when I yell, I don't feel like I am using my full voice.

  Koren Zailckas

  Gun, Voice, Sound

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.8, Penguin

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• You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believed in God. I told you of course I do- I've always had a strong sense of self. Your house is quiet now, you're sleeping upstairs and I'm alone with this blasted, idiotic book that purports to tally the sum of my life, and fact is, maybe I do. But maybe, ka-lyrra, your God doesn't believe in me. -- From The (Greatly Revised) Black Edition Of The O'Callaghan Book of the Sin Siriche Du

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Believe, Book

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1384, Dell

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• Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God’s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out life’s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.

  Edwin Markham

  Fighting, Broken, Soldier

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• You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believe in God. I told you of course I do - I've always had a strong sense of self

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Believe, Self

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1384, Dell

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• In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself.

  Cameron Dokey

  Father, Thinking, Arrows

  Cameron Dokey (2010). “Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan"”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded. 'The firing squad.' 'That's not the whole truth. Try again.' 'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness. 'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.' He was silent for several minutes. 'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.' 'Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?

  Angela Carter

  Country, Simple, Squad

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• Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences.
  There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend.
  On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspirational, Friendship, Business

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• By push of bayonets, no firing until you see the whites in their eyes!

  Andrew Agnew

  Military, War, Eye

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• There was always talk of espirit de corps, of being gung ho, and that must have been a part of it. Better, tougher training, more marksmanship on the firing range, the instant obedience to orders seared into men in boot camp.

  James Brady

  Military, Marine, Men

  James Brady (2007). “The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by firing squad, including three young black men in 2003. What is needed in Cuba is a concert in favor of democracy, civil liberties for the people, the freedom of political prisoners, free elections and the expulsion of dictatorial power.

  Zoe Valdes

  Men, Thinking, Squad

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• The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as much more than interesting historical documents from centuries past. But read in aggregate, all that pain piles up. Essentially, Elder has amassed a collection of what people say when they know they are going to die, the final product of what could be seen as psychological torture.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Pain, Past, Men

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• The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Running, Gun, Men

  Elspeth Huxley (2000). “The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood”, p.264, Penguin

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• I feel terrible for a Palestinian child who dies. But, if it's your father, your brother or your uncle who was firing those rockets into Israel, whose fault is it really? Do you really expect the Israelis not to retaliate?

  Bill Maher

  Brother, Uncles, Children

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• The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moon, People, Together

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.

  Gus Van Sant

  School, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the synapse a number of models (Hebb 1949 . . Hayek 1952 . . Kendel 1981) have been proposed in which various cognitive activities are represented by combinations of the firing patterns of individual neurons.

  Gerald Edelman

  Memories, Ideas, Numbers

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• I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Fighting, Men, Yelling

  "The Women of Hollywood Speak Out" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2015.

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• This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed
  ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!

  Homer

  Way, Cylinders, Should

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• If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

  Karen Traviss

  Fire, Enemy, Return

  Karen Traviss (2008). “Sacrifice: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.135, Del Rey

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• I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees, as I've talked to them across the country, feel that they are not respected, they are not valued, they are worried about their jobs. They simply feel that the company is no longer loyal to them. Why should they be loyal to the company, they ask me. Why should I go the extra mile? Why should I care?

  Robert Reich

  Country, Jobs, Business

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• The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.

  Andre Breton

  Hands, Crowds, Pistols

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• In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  War, Gun, Noon

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