Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Theroux

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

Owen Wister

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

Patty Hearst

There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.

Patty Hearst

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

Heinrich Himmler

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.

Hayley Atwell

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

Hilaire Belloc

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Helen Thomas

Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.

Helen Thomas

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

Heinz Guderian

The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.

Joel Barlow

There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.

Joel Barlow

[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.

Joe Manchin

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

Joe Manchin

Why would anybody not own a gun?

Joe Manchin

Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

Joe Lieberman

...the stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence....

Fred Thompson

A new report shows that, in Virginia, gun violence has fallen as the sale of firearms has soared to a new record. In other news, a recent study shows that most criminals don't like getting shot at.

Frank Lautenberg

We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows.

Frank McCourt

I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.

Maggie Q

I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.

Maggie Q

I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

Mackenzie Astin

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

Haruki Murakami

Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?

Hanan Ashrawi

We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

John Dryden

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

John Lydon

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

John Locke

Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.

Queen Rania of Jordan

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

Joss Whedon

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

Kendrick Lamar

The one in front of the gun lives forever

Ralph Ellison

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

Mike Huckabee

I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced - at gun point no less - to listen to every David Barton message.