Bombs Quotes - Page 28

• Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.

  William L. Shirer

  Taken, Moon, Rome

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• He remembered Simon warning him, with wryness, that Clary had the nuclear bomb of boyfriends.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nuclear, Warning, Remembered

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Butterfly, Views, Europe

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

  Aberjhani

  Heart, Land, Heaven

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)”, p.97, Lulu.com

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• teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.

  David Levithan

  Teacher, Teenager, School

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• Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.

  James Rollins

  Gun, Nuclear, Picks

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• I mean, it's like we all get our raw materials from our families―but it's up to us whether we build bridges or bombs.

  Neal Shusterman

  Mean, Bridges, Raw Materials

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs and blood. This morning, in the fresh field, I came upon a hidden nest. It held four warm, speckled eggs. I touched them. Then went away softly, Having felt something more wonderful Than all the electricity of New York City.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, New York, Blood

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.40, Beacon Press

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• Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

  Gregory Corso

  Dictator, Poet, Throwing

  Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well educated that you can build a nuclear bomb, and still get--and still believe that you will get the 72 virgins in paradise--that is the problem. The problem is that--religion--because it has been sheltered from criticism as it has been--allows people--perfectly sane, perfectly intelligent people--to believe en masse, what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Stupid, Believe

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• Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left." I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. "What's up with the labels?" Dali shrugged. "You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Jobs, Clever, Coffee

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• Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full of people to protect them from violence." David Icke - Remember Who You Are

  David Icke

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.

  Justina Chen

  Heart, Ideas, Leaving

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• The bomb lives only as it is falling.

  Iain Banks

  Fall

  "Use of Weapons". Book by Iain Banks, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 1990.

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• Imagine the first discovery that one of these epidemics was man-made—the panic, the violence that would ensue. That’s where the end would come. A typhoon kills a few hundred people, does a few billion in damage, and what do we do?” Erskine interlocked his fingers. “We come together. We put the pieces back. But a terrorist’s bomb.” He frowned. “A terrorist’s bomb does the same damage, and it throws the world into turmoil.” He spread his hands apart like an explosion going off. “When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we must destroy him.

  Hugh Howey

  Men, Epidemics, Discovery

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• I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

  A.M. Homes

  Night, Black, Powder

  A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books

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• The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Colorful, Fuse

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• I don’t mind hot and spicy. Actually find that appealing in a girl … And chicken wings.” Rylann turned her head and stared at him. “Did you really just compare me to chicken wings?” “You say that like it’s a bad thing. Chicken wings are the bomb.

  Julie James

  Girl, Wings, Mind

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.25, Penguin

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• The Buggers have finally, finally learned that we humans value each and every individual human life. But they've learned this lesson just in time for it to be hopelessly wrong — for we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entrenched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.

  Orson Scott Card

  Blow, Enemy, Insane

  "Ender's Shadow". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1999.

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• What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

  Marisha Pessl

  Men, Nuclear, Devastation

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• It's a bomb. Just like you.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Like You

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.194, Scholastic Inc.

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• Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal mechanism directing it, you don't have a rocket. You have a bomb

  Stanley Bing

  Anger, Needs, Fuel

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• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

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• If you are religious, then remember that this bomb is Man's challenge to God. It's worded quite simply: We have the power to destroy everything that You have created. If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is 460,000,000 years old. It could end in an afternoon.

  Arundhati Roy

  Religious, Peace, Men

  "The End of Imagination". Book by Arundhati Roy, 1998.

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• If that's the only thing that's stopping war then thank God for the bomb.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  War, Science, Thank God

  Song: Thank God For The Bomb, Album: The Ultimate Sin

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