Quotes About Weapon

Any weapon's only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.

If I have a bow and arrow, Commander, I don't shoot a padded shaft to my target's left in order to express my annoyance. I fire a steel-tipped arrow into his leg.

A popular slogan claims that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." The intent is no doubt to suggest that if "people" were deprived of guns, they would find some other means of killing each other—that what matters is the intent, not the type of weapon. What is missing from this argument is that without a gun, the capacity to kill may be greatly diminished. One wag suggested, "Guns don't kill people, they just make it real easy.

No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war - perhaps because we never before had any that thought for themselves.

We've sifted through the eight thousand, don't worry about that. And this is the one. This is the murder weapon, no doubt about it. Then the President has been murdered? I cant tell you that right now. But I can assure you that if there has been a murder, this is what did it.

The Deliverer-Hero, with a Weapon, on a Horse?' says Mark. 'The tough but loving tutor who tempers him like fine blue steel? The Bush? Kinobe? Yoda?

Are we allowed to go armed? asked Pagan If you like, said Belder, though I cannot see even you fighting your way through a thousand Sathuli! I don't want to die without a weapon in my hand. Bravely spoken! said Scaler. I will take this apple. I don't want to die without a piece of fruit in my hand. Will you put a stop to this talk of dying? It's extremely unsettling!

Drawing his sword, he gazed down at the gleaming blade. 'I pledge you to the destruction of Sparta,' he whispered. Raising the weapon high he pointed it to the south-east and, though the city was far beyond his range of vision, he pictured the sword poised above it with the sun's harsh light turning it to fire.

Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either.

El humor es tu brújula y tu escudo. Puedes afilarlo para convertirlo en un arma o arrancarle hebras para tejerte una colcha mullida. No se puede subsistir a base de humor, pero sin él, tampoco.

We have but one weapon unimpaired and that is the weapon of speech, and not to use it . . . is treason to the oppressed.

They were there with their tongues cocked and loaded, the only real weapon left to weak folks. The only killing tool they are allowed to use in the presence of white folks.

It is from his grandmother that Henry learns that punctuation can be a weapon. With a comma you can hurt someone.

Of all weapons, love is the most deadly and devastating, and few there be who dare trust their fate in its hands.

All thoughts of revenge are born of the pain of helplessness. 'I suffer' becomes 'You will suffer'. And let us not lie: Vengeance is invigorating. It focuses and enlivens us, and it quashes grief because it turns the emotion outward. In grief we go to pieces. In revenge we come together as a single pointed weapon aimed at a target. However destructive in the long run, it serves a useful purpose for a time.

she wore a Walther TPH .22 automatic in her right hand. The TPH is a pretty little thing. It has a straight blowback action, a six-round box magazine and two-and-a-quarter-inch barrel. It's also utterly useless as a firearm, because unless you can guarantee hitting either the heart or the brain first time, you're only going to annoy the person you're shooting at. For most people, a wet mackerel is the better choice of weapon.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

As swords were designed to kill They did well to make them tongue-shaped. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Un problema resuelto es tan útil para la mente del hombre como una espada rota en un campo de batalla.

La Oportunidad es preciosa, y el tiempo es una espada.

The word 'free-lance', I used to think, had a romantic ring; but sadly discovered, when I tried to be one, that its practice has little freedom, and the lance is a sorry weapon to tilt at literary windmills.

Manipulation is the most powerful and therefore is the deadliest of all weapons.

an arrow doesn't care who it kills.

Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no jeopardy, no natural cataclysm, has ever been able to inspire until now. And now here it is running icily through him in the hot Chinese noon. Fear for the thing he loves, the only fear that can ever wholly cow the reckless and the brave. ("Jane Brown's Body")