Gunpowder Quote by Thomas Carlyle Download Open image “The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.” — Thomas Carlyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gunpowder Men Real Tall Use
I was growing up in a society that exerted a lot of control on people, and from both my personality and the social condition,… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other reason is… — Cai Guo-Qiang Copy Share Image
My dad used to take my younger sister Whitney and I to the firing range, and he'd stand behind us as we shot. We… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
“The firepower uncovered in March 2005 in Sant’Anastasia, a town at the foot of Vesuvius, was stunning. The discovery came about partly by chance,… — Roberto Saviano Copy Share Image
GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“We have expended two-thirds of our rail-gun ammunition,” the weapons tech announced. “Shall I maintain fire?” “Yes,” Drummer said. “Then start putting chairs in… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“The explosive properties of gunpowder were first used in war by the Jin, the northern rivals of the Song, in 1221.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood… Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
There are two things necessary to Salvation… Money and gunpowder. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
