His Gun Quotes
31 quotes by 26 authors
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing…
— Andre Gide
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And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be…
— Leo Tolstoy
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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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When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you…
— Alexander Berkman
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No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves as least three jealous gods-his horse and…
— Rudyard Kipling
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The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If…
— William Gurnall
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In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
— Christiane Amanpour
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See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred…
— Gordon Lightfoot
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I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye.…
— Stephen King
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Honey, a man can't keep his gun in a cookie jar. It just isn't done.
— Janet Evanovich
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We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was…
— Melina Marchetta
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I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.
— Stephen King
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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect,…
— Anne Carson
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Shirley's gonna be pissed," Gazarra said. "She hates when I get shot." To my recollection, the only other time Gazarra was shot was when he…
— Janet Evanovich
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Ranger clicked his penlight on. "Hang onto me if you can't see." I curled my hand into the back of his cargo pants just above…
— Janet Evanovich
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When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.
— Donald E. Westlake
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In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.†“No,…
— Libba Bray
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The man running toward me is not a man, he is a boy. A shaggy-haired boy with a crease between his eyebrows. Will. Dull-eyed and…
— Veronica Roth
Who Wrote These His Gun Quotes
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