Pistol Quotes

120 quotes by 104 authors

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol… — Thomas Carlyle
No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year. — Tupac Shakur
There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least… — Stephen King
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights. — H. L. Mencken
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of… — John B. S. Haldane
The 1911 pistol remains the service pistol of choice in the eyes of those who understand the problem. Back when we audited the FBI academy… — Jeff Cooper
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence.... From the hour the Pilgrims… — George Washington
Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the… — Sam Mussabini
Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer. — Hermann Goring
If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put… — Anton Chekhov
I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since you have it… — Jeff Cooper
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a… — Philip Roth
I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for… — J. G. Ballard
Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway… — Mae West
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
I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change… — Dizzy Dean
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense — Samuel Fuller
It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. — Arthur Bremer
Chris Lloyd came out of the dressing room like a pistol. — Virginia Wade
The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range. — Jeff Cooper

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