Dynamite Quotes

105 quotes by 76 authors

In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The… — Walter Prescott Webb
If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow… — Lakhdar Brahimi
Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. — Mark Twain
Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other… — Alfred Nobel
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. — George Bernard Shaw
Colors were dynamite for us. — Andre Derain
There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. — John H. Vincent
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful… — Nicolaas Bloembergen
Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as… — Dave Barry
A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power. — Kevin Carson
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit… — Jason Statham
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you… — Elbert Hubbard
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. — John H. Vincent
As a peace machine, it's value to the world will be beyond computation. Would a declaration of war between Russia and Japan be made, if… — John Brisben Walker
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the… — Emma Goldman
Man is a hybrid. From a lower order we have been genetically manipulated by advanced intelligences into what we are. Now that in itself is… — Robert Dean
Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for… — Franklin Graham
When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite. — Sergio Leone
People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit. — Mac Anderson
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a… — Dave Barry

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