Loaded Gun Quotes

• You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

  Clint Eastwood

  Badass, Gun, Two

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• A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Gun, Men

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• You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Divergent, Idiot

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• Love's a loaded gun and it shoots to kill.

  Alice Cooper

  Love, Gun, Loaded

  Song: Love's A Loaded Gun, Album: Hey Stoopid, 1991

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• When you decide to be something, you can be it.

  Frank Costello

  Departed

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• A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Girl, Coffee, Thinking

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• We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Judging, Mountain

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• I'm a drunken midget with a loaded gun, a loaded gun.

  Bo Burnham

  Gun, Midget, Loaded

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• Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Military, Knowledge, Gun

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

  Wil Wheaton

  Respect, Gun, America

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

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• Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Future, Gun, Civilization

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• Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

  Peter M. Brant

  Artist, Gun, Hands

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• For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side.

  Eli Roth

  Real, Gun, Cynical

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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, Gun

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• When I was in my early forties, I slept with a loaded gun under my bed. Id become severely depressed in my thirties, and for almost a decade I spiraled down into paranoia, rage, self-loathing, and thoughts of suicide.

  Byron Katie

  Suicide, Gun, Self

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• Revenge in the hands of your enemies is a loaded gun. You can beg them for mercy, wave the white flag of surrender, but the only true elixir for the vitriol they bestow is a measure of hatred dispensed of your own.

  Addison Webster Moore

  Revenge, Gun, White

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• Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.

  Penn Jillette

  Gun, Night, Thinking

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• I think unity is a mistake.... If I were the Establishment and had the big loaded guns of the various oppressive institutions....I would much prefer to see one lion come through the door than 500 mice.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Mistake, Gun, Thinking

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• To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

  Richard Dawkins

  Gun, Atheism, Littering

  Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.183, Random House

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• A lot of people refer to power as shooting a loaded gun. When you have to shoot the gun, you've lost the power. Other people's knowledge of your gun should be enough.

  Irving Azoff

  Gun, People, Shooting

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• life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.

  Billy Collins

  Eye, Gun, Yellow

  Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.120, Random House

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• My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

  Emily Dickinson

  Gun, Owners, Loaded

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.318, Harvard University Press

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• Unfortunately, dozens of toddlers injure themselves, even kill people with guns, because, unfortunately, not everyone who has loaded guns in their homes takes appropriate precautions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Home, Gun, People

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Hands, Lips

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• It's like I have a loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Gun, Addiction, Mouths

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