Quote by C.J. Chivers Download Open image ““He gave them nicknames, including a series of people he assigned the name Stupid.”” — C.J. Chivers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The Archer sighed and closed his eyes as he tried to refocus on the activity around him. He really hated that name. The Archer.… — Abigail Roux Copy Share Image
“I wondered if he was opposed to nicknames for people in general, or if he just knew the weight of using a proper name—the… — Laurelin Paige Copy Share Image
“The nickname had irritated and pleased her at the same time. It made her feel foolish, but she was aware that in renaming her… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Hector Dumble thought the name 'Hector Dumble' was a really dumb name.” — Neil McFarlane Copy Share Image
“Mr. Cold, Dark and Broody might be a lot of things, but he wasn’t stupid.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“I want to be remembered as a professor who said a lot of stupid things to his students.” — Arne Næss Copy Share Image
“I've always liked people with two names, because you get to make up your mind what you call them.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Ryan rattled off names as I nodded and smiled at the faces - forgetting their names instantly. They should all be called Bob -… — A.M. Hudson Copy Share Image
“The sentence was death. His appeal was rejected. At 7:18 A.M on April 9, 1959, József Tibor Fejes was hanged. He was suspended on… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“It is said that when men have made up their mind to die they act and speak like gods.” — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“the Russian assault rifle would see its first combat use—both by conventional forces and by insurgents. The United States military, all the while, would… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“McNamara’s Pentagon was right on one point. The M-14 was not the best all-purpose rifle for what war had become, especially in a tropical… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“In sum, the United States had armed its foes, indirectly but surely. The war echoed edicts of Mao: “Guerrillas must not depend too much… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“The rules of war established by pen soldiers do not form the basis of actual operations in the field,” he wrote.” — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“If a rifle could not be trusted, its other characteristics were moot. Being a bayonet holder was not enough.” — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“enough weapons had been shown to enough military officers, and distributed to enough armies and navies, that given time even the most stupid of… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“Within a very few years the Kalashnikov’s attributes—its mechanical characteristics combined with its unprecedented availability—transformed Stalin’s rifle, conceived as a tool of the state,… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“The M-16 sure is a marvelous gun, and in a god-awful war it provides some keen fun. The bullet it fires appears too small… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“By 1944, three years later, the ordeal and the turnabout had both been spectacular. The Soviet Union had lost as many as 20 million… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
“Often Soviet soldiers located insurgents only by drawing their fire—the 1956 version of a perilous form of combat patrol, known among soldiers as the… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
