Ricochet Quotes

• Every shot that kills ricochets.

  Gilbert Parker

  Shots

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.

  Molly Ivins

  Gun, Order, Knives

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• Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

  Christopher Morley

  Truth, Prejudice, Facts

  Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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• The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Wall, Destiny, Years

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• If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

  Brian Eno

  Nature, Echoes, Tree

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• God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.

  Sylvia Plath

  Doubt, Certainty

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.78, Anchor

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• Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.

  Anne Carson

  Love, Pain, Moving

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

  Diane Ackerman

  Knees, Wonder, Cosmic

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems”, p.111, Vintage

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• One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Distance, Communication

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.91, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The controls are jammed or something really important has fallen off the plane, and these guys are talking like magpies; their lives are flashing past their eyes, and they're flailing around in the cockpit. It just doesn't happen. You don't have time to talk. You're too damn busy trying to get out of the problem you're in to talk or ricochet around the cockpit. Or think about what happened the night after your senior prom.

  Robin Olds

  Senior, Eye, Mean

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• Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

  Walker Percy

  People, United States, Balls

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.7, Open Road Media

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