Gun Quotes - Page 28

• All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. They don't understand them, and they don't want to get near them. I sleep with one under my pillow, instead of a gun.

  Rita Rudner

  Sleep, Men, Eyelashes

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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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• It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Hurt, Fighting, Long

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• People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.

  Ani DiFranco

  Shoes, People, Drug

  "Song: "Fuel"". 1998.

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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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• We don't really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head

  George Hamilton

  Football, Iran, Commentators

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• Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

  Ernie Pyle

  Literature, Enough, Artillery

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.

  Carl Reiner

  Fighting, Two, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always prefer the character moments. For me, personally, whether I'm shooting the gun or not shooting the gun, I really don't care. I'm the guy who's like, "Whatever you want me to do." But, I really get excited about the character moments that are steeped in emotion when the stakes are high.

  Brandon Jay McLaren

  Character, Guy, Care

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't like talk and I don't like talkers. Like Ma Barker. That's what she always said, 'Ma Barker doesn't like talk and she doesn't like talkers.' She just sat there with her gun.

  David Bowie

  Said, Sat, Talkers

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.30, Melville House

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• If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.

  Willem Dafoe

  Littles, Sticks, Stuck

  "Willem Dafoe Talks OUT OF THE FURNACE, Playing Conflicted Characters, Bringing an Eastern European Flair to His Character, and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 6, 2013.

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• There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Years, America, Daddy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Real, Believe, Direct Action

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.275, SUNY Press

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• If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

  Molly Ivins

  America, Get Better, Would Be

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• Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.

  David Letterman

  Retirement, Gentleman, Gold

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• The most dangerous action a woman can take when faced with a criminal is to resist with her fists: That tends to annoy violent criminals, and the woman will very likely be seriously injured. But a woman who takes the advice of Handgun Control Inc. and passively submits is 2.5 times more likely to be injured than a woman who resists with a gun. So if you don't want to lie back and enjoy it, get a gun. Otherwise you may never become a mom.

  Ann Coulter

  Mom, Lying, Advice

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• When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Home, Doors, Two

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2003). “Little House in the Big Woods”, HarperCollins

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• Im a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. Its fun, you know? Its things I wouldnt normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Fun, Real, Dirty

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• Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

  Brady Corbet

  Tests, Auditions, Kind

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• The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

  Lydia Millet

  Rpgs, Opinion, Stills

  Lydia Millet (2014). “Mermaids in Paradise: A Novel”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Guns arent the problem; sick people are.

  Pete Sessions

  People, Sick, Problem

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• One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1896). “The Earth Girdled: The World as Seen To-day”

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• The Assault Weapons Ban deals with a fictional distinction. You have guns that are exactly the same guns as are banned, in function, that were banned because of the way they look. And you know, that's the whole truth of this policy: it's to make politicians look as if they are doing something, when in point of fact, they are doing nothing.

  Alan Keyes

  Assault Weapons, Doing Nothing, Way

  Second Debate between Alan Keyes & Barack Obama, votesmart.org. October 21, 2004.

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• religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

  Emma Goldman

  People, Clubs, Morality

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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• Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

  Hannah Arendt

  Perfect, Violence, Obedience

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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