Ammo Quotes

• Nothing builds confidence like live ammo.

  Tim Dorsey

  Building Confidence

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• When they come for your guns, give them the ammo first.

  Kenneth W. Royce

  Gun, Giving, Firsts

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• Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

  William H. Prescott

  Memorial Day, Military, War

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• The enemy advances and you tremble. They've better numbers, you say. Better weapons. Better training. But I do not fear, and neither should you. For what they have in material, they lack in conviction and care. But not us. We have discipline. We have order. And most importantly, we have passion. We believe! So maintain vigilance. Conserve your ammo. Ensure a proper line of sight. And above all else, men, do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

  Israel Putnam

  Believe, Eye, Passion

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• I never ran out of ammo, because each time I fired a round, a new round was teleported into the bottom of the clip. My bullet bill this month was going to be huge.

  Ernest Cline

  Bullets, Months, Bills

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.252, Random House

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• We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Warrior, Self, Waste

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.120, Penguin

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• Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes! Then fire low!

  Israel Putnam

  Military, War, Eye

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• Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hands, Opening Up, Wrong Person

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

  Robert Breault

  Animal, Hunters, Woods

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• I like it when people talk s**t. Because if people weren't talking s**t, there would be nothing for me to come back with. I need that. If I don't have any ammo, what am I going to say?

  Eminem

  Talking, People, Would Be

  "Eminem: What I've Learned" by Brian Mockenhaupt, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  Irving Kaufman

  Trust, History, Our Society

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• Remember the three rules of vampire hunting. One: Never, ever look them in the eyes. Two: Never, ever give up your cross. Three: Aim for the head and heart. Even with silver ammo, it won't be a killing blow anywhere else." I felt like a kindergarten teacher sending her kiddies off to a hostile playground. "Don't panic if you get bitten. The bite can be cleansed. As long as they don't mesmerize you with their eyes, you can still fight.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Teacher, Giving Up, Heart

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.1855, Penguin

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• Give the park police more ammo.

  Newt Gingrich

  Giving, Police, Parks

  "Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State: Down and Out in Theme Park Nation". Book by James D. Wright, Amy M. Donley, 2011.

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• Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Grief, Fall, People

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• When our bed is made, it's covered in 40 pillows-like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Fighting, Bed

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• When I was little, my father used to sell guns and ammo at a sporting goods store, but I always told everyone he was an arms dealer, because it sounded more exciting.

  Jenny Lawson

  Father, Gun, Arms

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened”, p.25, Penguin

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• I hang out with my dad mostly, my dad was in the military. He's at that age now where his war stories and other stories have blended together, so now you don't know what he's talking about. One time, we were surrounded, then we ran out of ammo, then we were fighting hand-to-hand, then we started dancing, and that's how I met your mother.

  Dave Attell

  Mother, Dad, Military

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• But I think if it's the right person, you wouldn't have to work so hard at intimacy. I think—hope—it would just happen naturally. Otherwise, opening up to the wrong person..." I made a face. "Like putting ammo in their hands.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Thinking, Opening Up, Hands

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo.

  Merrill Markoe

  Sports, Gun, Fields

  Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press

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• The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Song, Years

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

  Michael Moore

  Gun, Murder, Ifs

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• And speaking of on board, she'd moved into John's room properly. In his closet, her leathers and her muscles shirts were hanging next to his, and their shitkickers were lined up together, and all her knives and her guns and her little toys were now locked up in his fire proof cabinet. Their ammo was even stacked together. How frickin' romantic.

  J.R. Ward

  Gun, Fire, Knives

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.468, Penguin

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• Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.

  Robin Williams

  War, Heart, Viagra

  "Robin Williams: Weapons of Self Destruction". Documentary, www.imdb.com. December 6, 2009.

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• It's a weird smile, but it reaches his eyes and I bottle it. And I put it in my ammo pack that's kept right next to my soul and Justine's spirit and Siobhan's hope and Tara's passions. Because if I'm going to wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed, I'm going to need everything I've got to fight this disease that could be sleeping inside of me.

  Melina Marchetta

  Morning, Passion, Sleep

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.164, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.

  Ilona Andrews

  Rain, Atlanta, Sky

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