Firing Quotes
119 quotes by 116 authors
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The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.
— Cruz Bustamante
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Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs†is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
— Remi Kanazi
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George Lazenby is no one's favorite James Bond, but for me the anonymity at the center of this lavish production only serves to reveal the…
— Christopher Nolan
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If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy…
— Karen Traviss
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I think re-engineering or restructuring or downsizing or rightsizing or whatever you want to call it, it's basically firing, has gone way too far. Employees,…
— Robert Reich
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The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger,…
— Andre Breton
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Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear…
— H.G. Wells
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I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It’s the way I am. I love it.
— Prince
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Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing…
— Herbert Benson
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In firing his gun, John Brown has merely told what time of day it is. It is high noon.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife -…
— Wild Bill Hickok
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I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in…
— John Trevor Godfrey
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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
— Margaret Thatcher
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The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or…
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be…
— Frederick Forsyth
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To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary…
— Che Guevara
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I think I stand as much chance of dying in front of a firing squad or in a gas chamber as you do being killed…
— Ted Bundy
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One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.
— Anton Chekhov
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My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
— Renata Adler
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By all means, fire the customers who aren't worth the time and the trouble. But understand that the moment you insist the customer is wrong,…
— Seth Godin
Who Wrote These Firing Quotes
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