Gun Quotes - Page 27

• Dominating all earth from outer space will have an out-of-this-world price tag, perhaps more than $1 trillion. A question: Why reach for the stars with guns in our hands? Are there weapons of mass destruction on Mars?

  Dennis Kucinich

  Stars, Mass Destruction, Hands

  Congressional Record, Volume 151, Part 8, May 19, 2005.

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• Bullets on a presentation slide are too often like bullets in a gun - deadly for those on the receiving end.

  John Zimmer

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• If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Children, Home, Hunting

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• "Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

  James Nicoll

  Two, Police, Sound

  Usenet article, 2005.

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• Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers.

  James Nicoll

  Fighting, Guy, Machines

  Usenet article, 2006.

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• Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them. ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.

  Sheldon Richman

  Rights, People, Criminals

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• If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?

  Michael Moorcock

  Thinking, People, Problem

  "The Eternal Champion". Book by Michael Moorcock, 1970.

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• I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.

  Adam Rapp

  Character, Writing, Smell

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• Palmer was the big gun as far as getting the tour to where it is today. He was the most charismatic player ever. He did everything the public wanted him to do.

  Gene Littler

  Player, Today, Bigs

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• Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

  Lyle Lovett

  Past, Fishing, Imagination

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• I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in places just beginning their lives.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Thinking, Hands, President

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Exception, Distaste

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• Antigun advocates have always faced an uphill battle in this country. Americans have, to begin with, a constitutional right to gun ownership. Today, half of American households exercise this right, owning a total of about 250 million guns; and over 99 percent of those households do so in a responsible manner. To fight for major restrictions on an item that plays such a valued part in the lives of so many people looks like a nearly impossible task. So if you're really committed to the effort, and you want to win, what do you do? Simple: You lie.

  Dave Kopel

  Country, Lying, Fighting

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• The only way to stop Thierry Henry? With a gun!

  Gianluca Vialli

  Way

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• Do not open your mouth to tell me that your mind has convinced you of your right to force my mind. Force and mind are opposites. Morality ends where a gun begins.

  Ayn Rand

  Opposites, Mind, Mouths

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.966, Penguin

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• The elements which determine the make of any particular sermon are three; the preacher, the material, and the audience; just as the character of any battle is determined by three elements; the gun (including the gunner), the ammunition, and the fortress against which the attack is made.

  Phillips Brooks

  Character, Battle, Elements

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• Recently a guy was having trouble with his computer. So he unplugs it, takes it out in the alley, pulls out a gun, and shoots it eight times. Coincidentally, that's how Hillary got rid of her emails.

  David Letterman

  Eight, Guy, Email

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• It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative,
  but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

  Robin Williams

  Sound, Conservative, Volvo

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• Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean, of course, that we should dismiss it as artificial or insincere. All aristocracies have a strong military tradition, and for many British patricians the protracted warfare of the period was a godsend. It gave them a job, and, more important, a purpose, an opportunity to carry out what they had been trained to do since childhood: ride horses, fire guns, exercise their undoubted physical courage and tell other people what to do.

  Linda Colley

  Strong, Horse, Jobs

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• Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.

  Peter Padfield

  Wall, Powerful, Ocean

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• If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the gun by act three, scene two. If you fire a gun in act three, scene two, you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Book, Two

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• I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

  Bonnie Blair

  Sports, Missing, Sound

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• He doesn't have super powers or the biggest, baddest gun. The point isn't how many people you can kill or how you kill them. He is there to fight piracy, greed, and cruelty in all their forms on land and sea

  Billy Zane

  Fighting, Sea, Land

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• All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.

  Cesar Romero

  Country, Political, Kind

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• To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.

  Dave Barry

  Europe, Wind, Needs

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