Bullets Quotes - Page 17

• The strangest thing is at tea breaks, or coffee breaks or lunch, you forget you're a zombie. And you're talking about politics to somebody at the table and you forget that you have a bullet hole in your forehead.

  Billy Connolly

  Coffee, Talking, Lunch

  "Billy Connolly Is Fido!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 17, 2007.

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• If you do not surrender, I shall be forced to shoot you through the head with a rather large bullet.

  Peter O'Toole

  Surrender, Ifs

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• Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

  Nelson Mandela

  Block, Flower, Brutality

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• To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Sports, Thinking, Blow

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• If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

  Suge Knight

  Growing Up, Cancer, Cities

  "The Life and Times of Suge Knight". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. June 18, 2007.

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• Memories are worse than bullets.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.407, Penguin

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• I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, five hollow point bullets, God save me. What do you think this is? This isn't Zimmerman. But unfortunately, he's become the face of Block Watch, Crime Watch.

  Curtis Sliwa

  Block, Angel, Thinking

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• I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

  Scott Lynch

  Powerful, Artist, Presence Of Mind

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• The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word.

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Heart, Passion

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• Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America ... (She is) the light of the world ... A nation of heroes ... The real stars are wearing body armor on top of their battle dress uniforms in 130 degree heat and they do not have stunt doubles to come in for them when the going gets rough and the bullets and the shrapnel start flying. They are the real stars, fighting terrorism and trying to free a nation.

  Ben Stein

  Morning, Stars, Military

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• What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

  John Sedgwick

  War, Distance, Men

  John Sedgwick's final words said by him to his men who were ducking for cover at the battle of Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864.

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• I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Shots, Chamber

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• Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

  Norman Cousins

  Happiness, Laughter, Block

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• I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.

  Peter Bergen

  Blood, Leader, Navy

  "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Gweneth Paltrow is a joke. Her life is like taking bullets for a soldier. What a joke! My 2 sons serving in the military should talk to her.

  Cindy McCain

  Military, Son, Soldier

  Cindy McCain @cindymccain, twitter.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

  Howard Schultz

  Home, Media, Digital

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• Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.

  Taylor Swift

  Sorry, Band, Ghost

  Song: Bad Blood

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• Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.

  Ruby Dee

  Jobs, Feet, Shelter

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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

  Months, Ammo, Bills

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

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• So far Im still standing on Sons of Anarchy but all the rest of the people on the show have me in their crosshairs so Im waiting for the bullet in the head.

  Mitch Pileggi

  Son, People, Waiting

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• I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of hopelessness, of despair buried in the depths of poverty, violence, racism are more deadly than bullets. The gift of light, in our compassion, our listening, our works of love is the gift of life to ourselves.

  Janice Mirikitani

  Love Is, Compassion, Light

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• And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.

  Sarah MacLean

  Flesh, Consumed, Ripped

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• Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.

  Holly Black

  Love, Girl, Fall

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Lassiter came in alone, likely because Doc Jane had returned to the Pit. And the angel was naked as a jaybird… and just frickin’ fine. No bullet holes, no scars, no contusions. “You keep looking at me like that and you’d better buy me dinner afterward.

  J.R. Ward

  Angel, Naked, Pits

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.289, Penguin

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• I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Tobias, Peter

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, 2012.

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