My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
Christian, thou knowest thou carriest Gunpowder about thee, desire those that carry Fire to keep at a Distance from thee; 'tis a… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
“The Chinese people had invented the compass, paper, the printing press, gunpowder, the seismograph, the crossbow, and the umbrella; they had sailed… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause, it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion:… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . .… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press.… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One,… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia. — Pope Julius II Copy Share Image
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table. — Mark Oliphant Copy Share Image
“Dispensing indiscriminate justice and the righteous smell of gunpowder.” — Larry Correia Copy Share Image
War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet. — Myles Standish Copy Share Image
Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder. — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
“I had concocted the gunpowder myself from niter, sulfur, charcoal, and a happy heart. When working with explosives, I've found that attitude… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
We didn't invent gunpowder. What we did was take things that were there and put them together in a way that works. — Ana Patricia Botin Copy Share Image
Most men don't seem to get that telling a pissed-off woman to calm down is like throwing gunpowder on a fire.” ~… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass,… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
![“If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/12f/edward-gibbon-710_art_if-we-contrast-the-rapid-progress-of-thi_1234386.jpg)
![“And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down…” quote by Margaret Cho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b40/margaret-cho-1136_birth_and-if-the-problem-with-contraception-is_1482364.jpg)
![“[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . . . a word dropped in conversation, sets free our fancy, and instantly our heads are bathed with galaxies, and our feet tread the floor of the Pit.” quote by Marsilio Ficino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ef/marsilio-ficino-20663_audacious_the-imagination-inspires-an-audacious-me_1008045.jpg)
