Shooting Quotes
860 Shooting quotes by 733 unique authors
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They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian…
— Joseph Heller
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For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.
— George W. Bush
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Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when…
— Jodi Picoult
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The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm…
— Jim Morrison
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Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so…
— William Saroyan
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I told them he'd be able to get you to go out." Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into her blazer pocket. "Look…
— Melissa Marr
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I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones…
— Shana Abe
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I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a…
— Anne Frank
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All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.
— Nicholas Sparks
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We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people…
— Charles Bukowski
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believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup.…
— Douglas Coupland
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Shoot the moon," Aurora says dreamily. "Would it bleed, do you think? I think it would. I think it would bleed...shooting stars.
— Sara Ryan
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...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who…
— Marcus Luttrell
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Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
— Cormac McCarthy
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Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a…
— Nicholas Sparks
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You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you.
— Jeaniene Frost
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Shooting stars are not really stars at all but meteorites, burning their way through our atmosphere, sometimes landing in the oceans and in the middle…
— Laura Moriarty
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Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.
— Amartya Sen
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My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of…
— Livia Bitton-Jackson
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What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.…
— Frederick Buechner
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Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of…
— Michael Chabon
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He gave me the brochure. It was about the Hunters of Artemis. The front read, A WISE CHOICE FOR YOUR FUTURE! Inside were pictures of…
— Rick Riordan
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