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Quotes About Weaponry

European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.
~ Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi
Fear is one of the elements of nonlethal weaponry. You're going to get hurt, and you don't want to get hurt. Pepper spray hurts. You don't want to be sprayed. That's why it's a useful deterrent as a nonlethal weapon - I'm not advocating spraying people randomly.
~ Greg Rucka
Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'
~ Chris Matthews
I used to do traditional weapons training, and I wasn't bad with a sword.
~ Michael Bisping
Whenever we start making a 'Devil May Cry' game, one thing we think about is, 'What new weapons are we going to have for Dante?'
~ Hideaki Itsuno
Political correctness is the deadliest of political weaponry.
~ Charlie Kirk
On college campuses, in newsrooms, and now in the highest corridors of power, with Barack Obama in the Oval Office, the politically correct Left is wielding its weaponry with the confidence that it can take down any group, anyone, or anything.
~ Andrew Breitbart
A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.
~ Sebastian Junger
I'll shoot you so full of arrows— He held her tight. Eventually, you will run out of those. I make my own, she said between gritted teeth. O' course you do. But I consider your archery our foreplay. So—fire—away.
~ Kresley Cole
Chinese authorities coveted a powerful and accurate 120mm cannon produced by the huge German conglomerate Rheinmetall. Mertins acquired the plans of the cannon and provided them to NORINCO.67 Such are the morals of the arms dealer: developed and nurtured by German Intelligence as the arms dealer of choice for shadowy transactions, Mertins was willing, only a decade later, to undermine the military capacity of his fatherland so as to support communist China.
~ Andrew Feinstein
You probably used fusion bombs against the Girls.
~ Larry Niven
Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.
~ Frank Zappa
People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born.
~ Joseph Adam Pearson.
Critical to both our imaginative impoverishment and our practical enrichment is the field of endeavour known as logistics, a name rooted in the Ancient Greek military figure of the logistikos or quartermaster, who was once responsible for supplying an army with food and weaponry.
~ Alain de Botton
The dentuso is cruel and able and strong and intelligent. But I was more intelligent than he was. Perhaps not, he thought. Perhaps I was only better armed.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Langrage was basically shards of cast or wrought iron, jagged-edged, parcelled up much like chain, used in the smaller bore cannon where chain was impractical; it had become much less popular in recent years, probably as much through fashion as logical argument.
~ Andrew Wareham
When you choose the sword over a gun, just like Green Arrow chooses an arrow over a gun and Catwoman chooses a whip over a gun, you have to be highly skilled and highly trained. I can grab Green Arrow's bow, but I'm not strong enough to shoot it. I can grab Catwoman's whip, but have you ever tried to whip a whip? It's not easy.
~ Ann Nocenti
As the world's leading military and arms supplier, the U.S. is also the biggest producer of less than lethal weaponry.
~ Abby Martin
Tehran already has the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.
~ Michael T. Flynn
I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks." —Albert Einstein, in an interview with Alfred Werner for Liberal Judaism
~ Robert Masello
The difficulty with von Falkenhayn's original concept was that since the city had to be defended, the French had made it defensible. Once the Germans had lost the advantage of surprise and failed to take Verdun in the first few days, the French were fully alert to the threat and responded to it with increasing force, more weaponry, and not a little skill.
~ Robin Neillands
Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you
~ Lee Child
He had many formal qualifications. He was rated expert on all small arms. He had won an inter-service thousand-yard rifle competition with a record score. Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chain saw thrown at you.
~ Lee Child
They were .50-inch Barrett Model 90s. Nearly four feet long, over twenty-two pounds in weight. Bolt-action repeaters, fired a bullet a full half-inch across.
~ Lee Child