Gun Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.

  Shanola Hampton

  Play, One Day, Cop

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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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• Guns are the crutches of the impotent.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Crutches

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “The Hammer of God”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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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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• Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Brave, Sorrow

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  War, Sea, Earthquakes

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• I'm sorry that government involves filling out a lot of forms. ... I'm sorry myself that we're not still on the frontier, where we could all tote guns, shoot anything that moved and spit to our hearts' content. But we live in a diverse and crowded country, and with civilization comes regulation.

  Molly Ivins

  Country, Sorry, Heart

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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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• [Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.

  Beryl Markham

  Winning, One Direction, Hands

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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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• Playing with guns you revert to a little boy sometimes. But they're not great things to play with, so it's just making them look real. When it comes to shooting guns or using any prop, you've got to make it look like you know what you're doing with them. It's called acting.

  Ray Winstone

  Real, Boys, Play

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Men, Mad, Disputes

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• Guns have no eyes, no friends. You never know if they'll protect your life or take it.

  Edna Buchanan

  Eye, No Friends, Protect

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• We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.

  Olive Schreiner

  War, Men, Cost

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• And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?

  Margaret Cho

  Waiting, Forever, Trying

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• America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?

  Patricia Cornwell

  Country, America, Democracy

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• The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.

  Bessie Head

  Jesus, Lying, Philosophy

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• A free man must not be told how to think, either by the government or by social activists. He may certainly be shown the right way, but he must not accept being forced into it.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Thinking, May

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• One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.

  Niger Innis

  Law, Enforcement, Enough

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• Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun

  Lady Gaga

  Roulette, Russian Roulette

  Song: Poker Face, Album: The Fame

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• I'd never want to have a gun. I don't think we need guns in this country and I hate it, and I think the NRA is a disaster area.

  Eric Bolling

  Country, Hate, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• [Harvey] Weinstein appointed himself as the arbiter of your family safety. When was the last time his life was in danger, probably choking on a veal chop. He doesn't need a gun because he has security. He travels in rarified air. His feet never touch the street - feet, mind you, that he can't see because he's a corpulent cretin.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Feet, Air, Safety

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

  Al Sharpton

  Running, Cop, Crime

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

  Patrick Leahy

  People, Vermont, Owners

  "State of the Union", www.realclearpolitics.com. February 24, 2013.

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