Weapons Quotes - Page 9

• I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.

  Sarah Shahi

  Lethal Weapon, Newspapers, I Can

  "Sarah Shahi Discusses Her Person of Interest Debut: "If Jason Bourne and Catwoman Had a Child, This Would Be Her"". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. February 20, 2013.

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• Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

  Ariel Sharon

  Moving, Successful, Mass Destruction

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• We have evidence that Iran makes a reactor to possess nuclear weapons.

  Ariel Sharon

  Iran, Nuclear, Evidence

  "Sharon: Coalition should 'put pressure upon Iran'". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. April 13, 2005.

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• Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.

  Ariel Sharon

  Israel, Iran, Effort

  "Ariel Sharon's address to the Knesset", www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2004.

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• I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

  Mira Sorvino

  Sex, Hate, People

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• If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

  Steven Spielberg

  Believe, Government, Mass Destruction

  "Cruise and Spielberg Back War". news.bbc.co.uk. September 26, 2002.

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• Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.

  John Spratt

  Two, Oil, People

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• A truth should exist, it should not be used like this. If I love you is that a fact or a weapon?

  Margaret Atwood

  Truth, Love You, Facts

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• What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Men, Vocabulary, Should Have

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• I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Assault Weapons, People, Upset

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

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• You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.

  Michael Steele

  Country, Gun, Law

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• Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

  Stendhal

  Feminine, Found, Terrible

  Stendhal (2008). “The Red and the Black”, p.132, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Wars should be fought with words, not bombs, not weapons. And calm words. I think that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink.

  Mattie Stepanek

  War, Thinking, Bombs

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• The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Truth, Enemy

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Grove Day (1991). “Travels in Hawaii”, p.155, University of Hawaii Press

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• I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Bravery, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.11, Rajpal & Sons

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• We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Gun, Iraq

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• Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss. We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends. It is laughter.

  Vera Nazarian

  Laughter, Loss, Dark

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• If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

  John Sununu

  Long, Waiting, United States

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• Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

  John Sununu

  Technology, Nuclear, Use

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• I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Loneliness, Sadness

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• You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.

  Matt Taibbi

  Military, Night, Russia

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• The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

  Laurence Tribe

  Home, Self, People

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• Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Strong, Fear, People

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• I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.

  Ted Turner

  Believe, Thinking, Iran

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• If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

  Ted Turner

  New York, Doubt, Mind

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