Barrels Quotes - Page 3

• ...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

  Andrew Sullivan

  President, Politics, Sids

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• All you need is a double barrel

  Joe Biden

  Needs

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• In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fear, Men, Evil

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

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• Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

  Stan Musial

  Running, Home, Swings

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• Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Giving Up, Believe

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Self, Pieces

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

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• The trouble is that nonviolence is so often defined as refusal to fight, and that is the American definition of cowardice. In fact, marching unarmed against the guns and dogs of the police requires more courage than does aggression. The perverted idea of manhood coming from the barrel of a gun is what keeps people from understanding nonviolence.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dog, Fighting, Gun

  Interview with Arthur Kretchmer, www.playboy.com. October 14, 2011.

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• It's good to find the barrel of the bat again.

  Chase Utley

  Bats

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• The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.

  Walter Karp

  Military, Risk, Special

  Walter Karp (1973). “Indispensable enemies: the politics of misrule in America”

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• "More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be, especially once released from the barrel?

  Tom Shales

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

  Richard Russo

  Feelings, Crabs, Climbs

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Sep 02, 2012

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• Both God's love and God's wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax - in the cross.

  D. A. Carson

  Moving, Wrath, Covenant

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• The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Differences, Interesting

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.20, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Distance, Men

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• Im straight... But my girl a faggot... Potato on the barrel... Potato salad

  Lil Wayne

  Girl, Rap, Salad

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• It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Fall, People, Happy To See You

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• Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.

  James Buchan

  Europe, Oil, Gdp

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• Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

  Alan Moore

  Kings, Dark, Blow

  "Fictional character: Evey Hammond". "V for Vendetta", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• "This isn’t really death," Tyler says, "We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Thinking, Vampire, Legends

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Air, Iron

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• In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade. But he looked good. Casual.

  Daniel Suarez

  Military, Men, Eight

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.410, Penguin

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• Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening Lick the blood that covers me She’s the last one standing “Roulette” Collateral Damage, Track 11

  Gayle Forman

  Gun, Blood, Two

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.59, Penguin

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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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• Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.

  Alex Garland

  Morning, Love You, Night

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.8, Penguin

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• Love Is a curious thing. Sometimes it barrels into you, leaves you breathless. Other times, it comes in- to your life, a tentative beam of morning sun sneaking through the blinds, and you think this light isn't possible. The shutters are drawn. Night should linger on. I don't feel like waking. Yet the room comes slowly lit. Sleep slithers away, and at last you can no longer deny the dawning.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  Ellen Hopkins (2011). “Perfect”, p.617, Simon and Schuster

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