Gun Quotes - Page 37

• We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Cities, House, Police

  "U.S. Warns Americans Against Mideast Travel". "CNN Saturday Morning News", www.cnn.com. August 11, 2001.

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• If a country is producing guns, it becomes an immoral entity and no immorals ever have the right to talk about any kind of morality!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Morality, Kind

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• But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Morning, Wall

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form of fighting and defense and attack. Martial arts is king in this world. That was the first thing. We didn't want it to be a period piece either. We felt those are overdone and stuffy. That was what lead us to explore that area of science fiction and future, a world we can create and control.

  Miles Millar

  Art, Kings, Fighting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

  Eli Roth

  Iron, Rose, Listening

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• After about midday my dad sent cars from his private collection for us. We were told to get in. We had almost lost contact with my father and brothers because things had got out of hand. I saw with my own eyes the [Iraqi] army withdrawing and the terrified faces of the Iraqi soldiers who, unfortunately, were running away and looking around them. Missiles were falling on my left and my right - they were not more than fifty or one hundred metres away. We moved in small cars. I had a gun between my feet just in case.

  Raghad Hussein

  Running, Brother, Dad

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• I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Believe, Cities, Names

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• Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Fun, Careers, Goal

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

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• Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, War, Taken

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• Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.

  George Crabbe

  Girl, Boys, Secret

  'Tales of the Hall' (1819) 'The Maid's Story' l. 84

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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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• People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it's really about service to country and community.

  Austin Stowell

  Country, Military, War

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• Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

  Barack Obama

  Cities, Morality, Problem

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• Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up by the will of the great body of people it loses its meaning.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Powerful, Ideas, People

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• I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.

  Joe Gores

  Jobs, Thinking, Needs

  Joe Gores (2009). “Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon”, p.13, Vintage

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• Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way.

  John Oliver

  Mean, Florida, Way

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• No nation can be really great that is held together by Gatling guns, and no true loyalty can be induced and kept through fear.

  Clarence Darrow

  Loyalty, Together, Really Great

  "Resist Not Evil". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1904.

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• We always talk about how everyone is unifocal. You can't possibly be interested in jazz and Beethoven. Of course you can. You can't both be reading a newspaper and be online. Of course you can. We shouldn't be obsessed with a gun to your head, 'You either read a newspaper or die!'

  Harold Evans

  Reading, Jazz, Online

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Hero, Helping Others, Skills

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I think there are too many guns. That's a problem. I'd rather have immigrants than guns.

  Myka 9

  Thinking, Problem, Immigrants

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• I don't live in an outlaw world and I don't carry a gun.

  Katey Sagal

  World, Outlaw

  Source: collider.com

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• As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Thinking, Hunting, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.152, Xist Publishing

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• [In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.

  Alistair Cooke

  Horse, Land, Oklahoma

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• I don't believe in carrying a weapon. If somebody wants to shoot me, he'll have to bring his own gun.

  Kinky Friedman

  Believe, Want, Weapons

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• Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.

  Gary North

  Government, Promise, Special

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