Firing Quotes - Page 2

• The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Book, Reading

  "What’s So Scary About Smart Girls?" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. May 10, 2014.

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• I really believe that an awakening, a greater perspective on our lives and existence is happening. It's really the firing of archetypes that are already built into our brains, we just are able to awaken to a point where we can see a greater beauty in the world, a greater connection and sense of well being. This is what the mystics speak about. The insights fire us up into a greater consciousness on the planet. So it is a greater consciousness at the same time and a greater awareness of our spiritual nature. That is what the 'aha' is.

  James Redfield

  Spiritual, Believe, Fire

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• Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.

  Leslie Jamison

  Choices, Empathy, Brain

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.23, Granta Books

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• Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild

  Money, War, Trumpets

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• The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

  Andre Breton

  Gun, Crowds, Surrealist

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• the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

  Becky Freeman

  Teenage, Race, Brain

  Becky Freeman (1998). “The Best of Becky Freeman”, Inspirational Press

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• Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Party, Character, Gun

  Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

  H. G. Wells

  War, Gun, Men

  H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.114, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move. ... The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Moving, Japan, Faces

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• In truth a clear-headed physicalist shouldn't be thinking any of these dualist thoughts. If pains are one and the same as C-fibres firing, then there really isn't any possibility of having 'one' without the 'other'. Once you properly appreciates physicalism, this dissociation should cease to appear possible - C-fibres with pains should strike you as no more possible than squares without rectangles.

  David Papineau

  Pain, Thinking, Squares

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

  Emmanuel Jal

  Dream, Sleep, Gun

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• Become better at firing than hiring - it's crucial for building a business.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Building, Hiring, Crucial

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2015

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• I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

  David Horowitz

  Rights, Views, Political

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• They said Reagan was too dangerous. It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Unions, Shots, Said

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Jobs, Legacy, Cylinders

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

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• Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

  Norman Mailer

  Opportunity, Simple, Blood

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• Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

  Moss Hart

  Heart, Play, People

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.

  Celia Imrie

  Stars, War, Gun

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• One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Eye, Mind, Lines

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

  Julian Baggini

  Love Is, Roots, Neurons

  "Philosophy V Science: Which Can Answer the Big Questions of Life?" by Julian Baggini and Lawrence Krauss, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 2012.

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• Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.

  Raine Maida

  Reading, Creative, Fuel

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• Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

  William Eldridge Odom

  War, Way, Nuclear

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• When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.

  George Orwell

  Gun, Heroism, Mouths

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad.

  Mara Liasson

  Squad, Trump, Establishment

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