List Of Gun Quotes

The Republican Convention, An Event With The Intellectual Content Of A Guns'n'roses Lyric Attended By Every Ofay Insurance Brokerin America Who Owns A Pair Of White Shoes.

We're Gonna Be In A World Of Hurt If We Don't Get It Fixed, Because There's Going To Be Billions Of People Out There - They're Hungry, They're Mad. One Thing That They Can Get Their Hands On Is Guns.

The Chinese Had Gunpowder, But It Didn't Occur To Them To Put It In A Gun. They Possessed The Compass But Didn't Go Anywhere. They Invented Paper, Printing, And A Written Form Of Their Language, But Hardly Anyone In China Was Taught To Read.

Oh, God. The Sixties Are Coming Back. Well I've Got A 12-gauge Double-barreled Duck Gun Chambered For Three-inch Magnum Shells. And - Speaking Strictly For This Retired Hippie And Former Pinko Beatnik - If The Sixties Head My Way, They Won't Get Past The Porch Steps. They Will Be History. Which, For Chrissakes, Is What They're Supposed To Be.

Guns Are Always The Best Method For A Private Suicide. They Are More Stylish Looking Than Single-edged Razor Blades And Natural Gas Has Got So Expensive. Drugs Are Too Chancy. You Might Miscalculate The Dosage And Just Have A Good Time.

The Interesting Thing About Staring Down A Gun Barrel Is How Small The Hole Is Where The Bullet Comes Out, Yet What A Big Difference It Would Make In Your Social Schedule.

In Case We Have To Shoot Democrats. It Happened During The Civil War, And It Could Happen Again.

I Didn't See Any Nra Officials Killing Babies In Waco.

There Is No Virtue In Compulsory Government Charity, And There Is No Virtue In Advocating It. A Politician Who Portrays Himself As "caring" And "sensitive" Because He Wants To Expand The Government's Charitable Programs Is Merely Saying That He's Willing To Try To Do Good With Other People's Money. Well, Who Isn't? And A Voter Who Takes Pride In Supporting Such Programs Is Telling Us That He'll Do Good With His Own Money - If A Gun Is Held To His Head.

This Country Was Founded By Religious Nuts With Guns.

Remember That All Tax Revenue Is The Result Of Holding A Gun To Somebody's Head. Not Paying Taxes Is Against The Law. If You Don't Pay Your Taxes, You'll Be Fined. If You Don't Pay The Fine, You'll Be Jailed. If You Try To Escape From Jail, You'll Be Shot. ... Therefore, Every Time The Government Spends Money On Anything, You Have To Ask Yourself, 'would I Kill My Kindly, Gray-haired Mother For This?'

When A Government Controls Both The Economic Power Of Individuals And The Coercive Power Of The State ... This Violates A Fundamental Rule Of Happy Living: Never Let The People With All The Money And The People With All The Guns Be The Same People.

Freedom Is Not Empowerment. Empowerment Is What The Serbs Have In Bosnia. Anybody Can Grab A Gun And Be Empowered. It's Not Entitlement. An Entitlement Is What People On Welfare Get, And How Free Are They? It's Not An Endlessly Expanding List Of Rights - The "right" To Education, The "right" To Food And Housing. That's Not Freedom, That's Dependency. Those Aren't Rights, Those Are The Rations Of Slavery - Hay And A Barn For Human Cattle.

Money Is Not Our Primary Aim. Changing The Behavior And The Practice Of The Gun Industry Is.

I Never Liked Guns, I Hate Them, I Always Blink Before They Go Off.

Of Course, I Do Not Regret The Bond Days. I Regret That Sadly Heroes In General Are Depicted With Guns In Their Hands, And To Tell The Truth, I Have Always Hated Guns And What They Represent.

I'm Not A Pundit. I'm Not An Analyst. I Don't Want To Participate In The Existing Debate That's Going On About Whether Or Not You Should Be Able To Have As Many Guns As You Want To Have Or That Guns Are Even The Problem.

It Was Like Hunting Fish With An Underwater Gun, A Sport Which He Had Once Been Foolish Enough To Try. At One Moment There Is The Fish - Graceful, Mysterious, Desirable And Free - And The Next Moment There Is Nothing But Struggling And Blood And Confusion.

How Do You Deliver Democracy To A Country? You Don't Do It Down The Barrel Of A Gun. That's Not How You Deliver It.

The Left, Liberals, Believe That If We Just Have More Gun Control Laws, All The Problems Are Going To Go Away. Well, I Don't Think So. I Don't Think So. I Think - Yes, It Will, It Will Be Reduced. There's No Question About That.

We Should Be Licensing Everybody With A Gun. I Have To Have A License For My Dog. I Have To Have A License For My Car. If You’re Going To Do My Hair Later You Have To Have A License ... We Don’t Require A License To Own A Firearm?

If You Reduce The Guns And The Ammo, You'll Reduce The Murders.

Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People.

I Made 'bowling For Columbine' In The Hope The School Shootings Would Stop And That We Would Address The Issue Of How Easy It Is To Get A Gun In The United States, And Tragically, Those School Shootings Continue.

According To Chekhov," Tamaru Said, Rising From His Chair, "once A Gun Appears In A Story, It Has To Be Fired." "meaning What?" "meaning, Don't Bring Unnecessary Props Into A Story. If A Pistol Appears, It Has To Be Fired At Some Point. Chekhov Liked To Write Stories That Did Away With All Useless Ornamentation.

Did You Ever See Anyone Shot By A Gun Without Bleeding?

Remember, Remember The Fifth Of November Of Gunpowder Treason And Plot. I Know Of No Reason Why The Gun Powder Treason Should Ever Be Forgot.

There Has Never Been A Time In My Life When I Felt That I Could Take A Gun And Shoot Down A Fellow-being. In This Respect I Am A Quaker.

The Man Who Puts All The Guns And All The Decision-making Power Into The Hands Of The Central Government And Then Says, ‘limit Yourself’; It Is He Who Is Truly The Impractical Utopian.

Four Flips The Gun In This Hand, Presses The Barrel To Peter's Forehead, And Clicks A Bullet Into Place. Peter Freezes With His Lips Parted, The Yawn Dead In His Mouth. "wake. Up," Four Snaps. "you Are Holding A Loaded Gun, You Idiot. Act Like It.

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 Mindless, But Still Will. He Stops Running And Mirrors Me, His Feet Planted And His Gun Up. In An Instant, I See His Finger Poised Over The Trigger And Hear The Bullet Slide Into The Chamber, And I Fire. My Eyes Squeezed Shut. Can't Breathe. The Bullet Hit Him In The Head. I Know Because That's Where I Aimed It.

Too Bad You Didn't Just Take Max Up On His Offer, Four. Well, Too Bad For You, Anyway," Says Eric Quietly As He Clicks The Bullet Into Its Chamber. My Lungs Burn; I Haven't Breathed In Almost A Minute. I See Tobias's Hand Twitch In The Corner Of My Eye, But My Hand Is Already On My Gun. I Press The Barrel To Eric's Forehead. His Eyes Widen, And His Face Goes Slack, And For A Second He Looks Like Another Sleeping Dauntless Soldier. My Index Finger Hovers Over The Trigger. "get Your Gun Away From His Head," I Say. "you Won't Shoot Me," Eric Replies. "interesting Theory. " I Say.

What Do--" Tobias's Voice. Tobias! "oh My God. Oh--" "spare Me Your Blubbering, Okay? Peter Says. "she's Not Dead; She's Just Paralyzed. It'll Only Last For About A Minute. Now Get Ready To Run." I Don't Understand. How Does Peter Know? "let Me Carry Her," Tobias Says. "no. You're A Better Shot Than I Am. Take My Gun. I'll Carry Her.

I Have Realized That Part Of Being Dauntless Is Being Willing To Make Things More Difficult For Yourself In Order To Be Self-sufficient. There's Nothing Especially Brave About Wandering Dark Streets With No Flashlight, But We Are Not Supposed To Need Help, Even From Light. We Are Supposed To Be Capable Of Anything. I Like That. Because Their Might Come A Day When There Is No Flashlight, There Is No Gun, There Is No Guiding Hand. And I Want To Be Ready.

You Think My First Instinct Is To Protect You. Because You're Small, Or A Girl, Or A Stiff. But You're Wrong." He Leans His Face Close To Mine And Wraps His Fingers Around My Chin. His Hand Smells Like Metal. When Was The Last Time He Held A Gun, Or A Knife? My Skin Tingles At The Point Of Contact, Like He's Transmitting Electricity Through His Skin. "my First Instinct Is To Push You Until You Break, Just To See How Hard I Have To Press." He Says, His Fingers Squeezing At The Word Break. My Body Tenses At The Edge In His Voice, So I Am Coiled As Tight As A Spring, And I Forget To Breathe.

He Leans His Face Close To Mine And Wraps His Fingers Around My Chin. His Hand Smells Like Metal. When Was The Last Time He Held A Gun, Or A Knife?

There Are Men With Guns Up There. When They See Me, They Will Kill Me, If They Can," I Tell My Father Quietly. I Search His Eyes. "should I Let Them?" He Stares At Me For A Few Seconds. "go," He Says, "and God Help You.

I Figured I Would Shoot The Bullets Out Of My Nostrils, So I Left [the Gun] Upstairs.

His Hands Skim My Bare Arms. “just Bounce A Little When You Walk,” He Says, Kissing My Forehead, “and Pretend You’re Afraid Of Their Guns” —another Kiss Between My Eyebrows— “and Act Like The Shrinking Violet You Could Never Be ”—a Kiss On My Cheek— “and You’ll Be Fine.

Our Votes Must Go Together With Our Guns. After All, Any Vote We Shall Have, Shall Have Been The Product Of The Gun. The Gun Which Produces The Vote Should Remain Its Security Officer - Its Guarantor. The People's Votes And The People's Guns Are Always Inseparable Twins.

The Gun Goes Off. I Fall.

Because There Might Come A Day When There Is No Flashlight, There Is No Gun, There Is No Guiding Hand. And I Want To Be Ready For It." (divergent Pg.138)

Christina,'i Say,'the Factionless Have All The Guns.

You Are Holding A Loaded Gun, You Idiot. Act Like It.

Ever Since The Invention Of Gunpowder.. I Continually Tremble Lest Men Should, In The End, Uncover Some Secret Which Would Provide A Short Way Of Abolishing Mankind, Of Annihilating Peoples And Nations In Their Entirety.

I Hold The Gun Out From My Body, My Arms Straight, Just As Four Taught Me, When That Was His Only Name. I Used A Gun Like This To Defend My Father And Brother From Simulation-bound Dauntless. I Used It To Stop Eric From Shooting Tobias In The Head. It Is Not Inherently Evil. It Is Just A Tool.

I Should Probably Be Afraid. But Instead A Hysterical Laugh Bubbles Inside Me, Because I Just Remembered Something: Maybe I Can’t Hold A Gun. But I Have A Knife In My Back Pocket.

I Was Listening To Music To Kind Of Pump Myself Up And Get Psyched Up, Like I Was Listening To Iron Maiden And Misfits And Dead Kennedys, And It Was Like My '80s Massachusetts Parking-lot Heavy Metal And Guns N' Roses.

I've Never Played A Character Where I've Had So Much Fun On The Physical End. I Don't Want To Say I Like It Too Much But It's Fun Having A Gun On You And Getting To Manhandle Men.

I'd Get A Shell, They Weighed About 80 Pounds I Think, But When I Was 19 Or 20 That Was Nothing. I'd Take A Shell And A Bag Of Powder, I'd Put It In The Hoist And Then I Would Send It Up To The Gun.

Remote Control. Ingenious Contradiction Of Terms. Fits Like A Handshake. Aims Like A Gun.

My Guess [is] . . . That The Great Majority Of Americans Are Saying They Favor Gun Control When They Really Mean Gun Banishment. . . . I Think The Country Has Long Been Ready To Restrict The Use Of Guns, Except For Hunting Rifles And Shotguns, And Now I Think We're Prepared To Get Rid Of The Damned Things Entirely - The Handguns, The Semis And The Automatics.

We Have A Saying In Guns N Roses: When Somebodys Gonna Get Yelled At, Theyre Gonna Get The Corn.

Our Surest Protection Against Assault From Abroad Has Been Not All Our Guards, Gates And Guns, Or Even Our Two Oceans, But Our Essential Goodness As A People. Our Richest Asset Has Been Not Our Material Wealth But Our Values.

Nelson Mandela Is, For Me, The Single Statesman In The World. The Single Statesman, In That Literal Sense, Who Is Not Solving All His Problems With Guns. It's Truly Unbelievable.

The Right Of Self-defense Never Ceases. It Is Among The Most Sacred, And Alike Necessary To Nations And To Individuals.

Listening To The Doves In Alfred, Georgia, And Having Neither The Right Nor The Permission To Enjoy It Because In That Place Mist, Doves, Sunlight, Copper Dirt, Moon-everything Belonged To The Men Who Had The Guns. . . . So You Protected Yourself And Loved Small. . . . A Woman, A Child, A Brother-a Big Love Like That Would Split You Wide Open In Alfred, Georgia. . . . To Get To A Place Where You Could Love Anything You Chose-not To Need Permission For Desire-well Now, That Was Freedom

A Coward With A Gun Is The Most Dangerous Person In The World

My Metaphor Is That Evil Always Has A Top Hat And A Cape, And Goodness Is Over There In The Corner. For Me It's Just Too Easy, If You Hate Your Country Or Your Wife, So You Kill Them. You Can't Think Through That, You Can't Feel Through That, You Can't Do The Work. And Now We Have Guns. Solution? I Don't Think So.

The Truth Is That Any Good Modern Rifle Is Good Enough. The Determining Factor Is The Man Behind The Gun.

Gun Bans Don't Disarm Criminals, Gun Bans Attract Them.

They Got The Guns But We Got The Numbers.

A Vote Is Like A Rifle; Its Usefulness Depends Upon The Character Of The User.

If I Could Uninvent Anything, I Would Uninvent Hitler's Mum, Guns And Broccoli.

There Should Be At Least Ten Times The Number Of Rifles In The Country As There Are Now.

All Of Us In All The Americas Will Be Living At The Point Of A Gun.

The Doctor: [aiming Gun At The Ceiling] Didn't Anyone Ever Tell You? There's One Thing You Never Put In A Trap If You're Smart. If You Value Your Continued Existence, If You Have Any Plans About Seeing Tomorrow, There's One Thing You Never, Ever Put In A Trap. Angel Bob: And What Would That Be, Sir? The Doctor: Me. [fires]

Never Have Public Feuds With Anyone Who's Surrounded By People Who Carry Guns.

Why Can't A Democrat Get Fired Up About Protecting The Environment And Enacting Gun Control Legislation Just As Right Wing Republicans Get Fired Up About Making Sure That Children Have Access To Assault Weapons And Banning 'the Catcher In The Rye' And 'harry Potter'?

There Are So Many Causes. Gun Control, Climate Change, Deforestation, Animal Welfare, Human Welfare, Education. Working On The Big Issues Is Noble And Great, But Being Aware Of What’s Going On Around You Right At This Moment, Being Kind To The People Around You, Extending Compassion And Decency, Not Just To Everyone You Meet But Also To Yourself—i Think That’s One Of The Biggest Challenges Most People Face.

My View Is That We Have The Second Amendment Rights To Bear Arms, And In This Country My View Is That We Should Not Add New Legistlation. I Do Not Believe In New Laws Restricting Gun Ownership And Gun Use.

We Do Have Tough Gun Laws In Massachusetts. I Support Them. I Won't Chip Away At Them. I Believe They Help Protect Us And Provide For Our Safety. I'm Sure My Positions Won't Make Me The Hero Of The Nra.

Acid, Booze, And Ass, Needles, Guns, And Grass, Lots Of Laughs.

I Dreamed I Saw The Bombers Riding Shot Gun In The Sky And They Were Turning Into Butterflies Above Our Nation.

I Don't Support Any Gun-control Legislation - The Effort For A New Assault-weapons Ban, With A Ban On Semiautomatic Weapons, Is Something I Would Oppose.

There Are Certain Aspects Of Celebrity That I Understand, Although That's Not The Main Point Of The Story [in Assassination Of Jesse James] , But It Is One Of The By Products. I Certainly Understand What Its Like To Be Hunted And Have A Bounty On My Head But At Least Nobody Is Pointing Guns At Me.

America Is A Country Founded On Guns. It's In Our Dna. It's Very Strange But I Feel Better Having A Gun. I Really Do. I Don't Feel Safe, I Don't Feel The House Is Completely Safe, If I Don't Have One Hidden Somewhere. That's My Thinking, Right Or Wrong.

All Kinds Of Celebrities, Political Ones As Well, Are Increasingly Being Targeted. In This Country, With All The Countless Guns.

Only Social Patterns Can Control Biological Patterns, And The Instrument Of Conversation Between Society And Biology Is Not Words. The Instrument Of Conversation Between Society And Biology Has Always Been A Policeman Or A Soldier And His Gun.

Guns, Grendels, Or Nuclear Bombs; Take Your Pick.

When One Of My Japanese Teacups Is Broken, I Imagine That The Real Cause Was Not The Careless Hand Of A Maid But The Anxieties Of The Figures Inhabiting The Curves Of That Porcelain. Their Grim Decision To Commit Suicide Doesn't Shock Me: They Used The Maid As One Of Us Might Use A Gun.

I Don't Have Any Spiritual Anything.you Shoot A Guy With A Gun, He Dies. You Step On A Bug, The Bug Dies. There Is No Heaven For Me And No Hell. And Certainly Not Any Karma.

Guns Are Part Of The American Identity.

I Am Neither Pro- Nor Anti-gun. I Am Gun-conscious.

I Wonder If The Guy At The Gun Store Would Give Me A Discount On The Bullets I'll Need If I Told Him What I Was Up To.

A Gun In Your Hand Makes A Fool Out Of You. A Gun In Your Hand Makes A Target Out Of Me.

O That We Would So Love The Gospel And Have So Much Compassion For Lost People That Tribulation And Distress And Persecution And Famine And Nakedness And Danger And Sword And Gun And Terrorist Would Turn Us Not Into Fearful Complainers, But Bold Heralds Of Good News.

You Can Pass All The Gun Legislation You Want. None Of It Will Make Me Feel Any More Or Less Safe Than I Do Right At This Moment.

Try Driving The Streets Of Los Angeles Without Seeing A Billboard Depicting A Film With A Lead Actor Holding A Gun. It's Almost As If Guns Are Harmless Props Used To Bring Out The Cheekbones And Jawline Of The Screen Star.

It Is Not The Fault Of The Entrepreneurs That The Consumers,the People, The Common Man,prefer Liquor To Bibles And Detective Stories To Serious Books, And That Governments Prefer Guns To Butter. The Entrepreneur Does Not Make Greater Profits In Selling Bad Things Than In Selling Good Things. His Profits Are The Greater The Better He Succeeds In Providing The Consumers With Those Things They Ask For Most Intensely.

I Consider Any Gun That Can Chamber A Round And Send A Projectile Down Its Barrel At A High Rate Of Speed Into My Body - Causing Me Injury Or Death - To Be An Assault Weapon.

One Of The Most Insane Environments I Have Ever Spent Time In Is A Gun Range. There We Are, All In A Line, Armed To The Teeth, Firing Away.

The Most Difficult Thing About Shooting Guns Instantly On Film Is To Not Pull A Silly Face While The Gun Is Going Off, Because It's Always A Bit Of A Shock. So You Find Yourself Sticking Your Tongue Out Or Blinking Or Whatever. So The Hardest Thing Is To Keep A Straight Face While You're Shooting A Gun.

Guns Require A Finger To Pull The Trigger.

I Happily Cling To My Guns And My God, Even If President Obama Thinks That That Is A Simpleminded Thing In His Elitist Heart.

In The Myopic World Of The Liberals, Guns Are Responsible For Evil Instead Of The Perpetrator Of Evil. But Criminals Are Not Bound By Our Laws. That's What Makes Them Criminals.

I'm Actually For Gun Control -- Use Both Hands.

It Was Difficult Being A Conscientious Objector In The 1940's, But I Felt I Had To Stick To My Guns.

Broadly Speaking, The Southern And Western Desert And Mountain States Will Vote For The Candidate Who Endorses An Aggressive Military, A Role For Religion In Public Life, Laissez-faire Economic Policies, Private Ownership Of Guns And Relaxed Conditions For Using Them, Less Regulation And Taxation, And A Valorization Of The Traditional Family.

America Had, For One Thing, Lived In Anarchy For - Until Much More Recently Than Europe. We Had The Wild West, Where The Cliche Of The Cowboy Movies Was The Nearest Sheriff Is 90 Miles Away, And So You Had To Pack A Gun And Defend Yourself.