Quotes About Weapon

She'd be best off here with the princess with the slaughter seax.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

was the first president to use the Internal Revenue Service as a weapon against opponents.

You can't not look cool with a crossbow.

La poésie est l'arme du pauvre.

La poésie est l'arme de la révolte.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Like my father always said to me, if you ever pull a weapon on somebody – no matter what it is – you've got to be fully prepared to use it, because if you're not, the other guy will see the doubt in your eyes, and he'll take it off you and use it on you instead. Then you're really in trouble.

the one and only time in his career he'd been tempted to draw his weapon was when a swarm of gnats had descended on him in the motel parking lot. And what was so wrong about killing all the insects? Who cared if the frogs died with them? The only thing frogs were good for was keeping the insect population down, and clearly they were lousy at that.

Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.

Instincts were his first line of defense. His body was his second. He trained it, kept it in fighting shape, just as he did any other weapon.

Do you want to lie low, or do you want to be part of the takedown?" "Are you kidding me?" She grabbed her panties out of his hand, stepped into them. "Give me a freaking weapon.

A twelfth-century samurai's main weapon was his bow, but his sword offered a last line of defense if he ran out of arrows or was knocked off his horse. Yet even as a backup weapon the sword carried a symbolic weight that the bow did not. Weapons like bows and spears were also used for hunting. The sword had a singular purpose: to end human life" (Turner & Hinds, 2016, p. 23).

He was a better fighter than I was, but he wasn't faster than me. Nor was he as motivated, and I think he underestimated me. He thought he was fighting a girl with a stick when he was fighting Adam's mate, Coyote's daughter, armed with Lugh's staff.

Why the rolling pin and not a knife?" he asked, his voice raspy with the need for action. She looked at him for the first time since she'd seen his face on the stairs. "A knife wouldn't even slow him down, but bones take time to heal." He liked that. Who'd have thought he'd get turned on by a woman with a rolling pin? "All right," he said. "All right.

Silver was too hard to be good ammunition.

I was raised in the backwoods of Montana. I can hit a duck on the wing." Maybe. Probably. I'd never shot a duck in my life; I prefer hunting on all fours. "Where I come from, a gun is a weapon, not a TV prop, and if all the bad guys are dead, our side of the story is the only one that gets told.

She said that time and death are the greatest enemies all of us must face, and the only weapon stronger than they are is love.

A plain sword. No wonder I couldn't block it. I thought it was a spell.

said. "That breech loader has killed everthing but a train engine, and now it's done that too.

On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was sent with two other prisoners to clean a bathroom at the Columbia Correctional Institute in Portage, Wisconsin. Inmate Christopher Scarver first beat Jesse Anderson, the other prisoner, in front of Dahmer before turning his weapon, a grip from a barbell weight, on Dahmer, who put up no resistance. Coincidentally, it was the very same kind of weapon Dahmer used against his first murder victim at age eighteen.

One of the biggest weapons you have against procrastination is its natural enemy: making tasks almost impossible to skip over in the present moment. We'll cover that in more detail later.

I look at the knife again, sitting there on the moss like a thing without properties, a thing made of metal as separate from a boy as can be, a thing which casts all blame from itself to the boy who uses it.

A woman who goes around wearing a knife is obviously looking for trouble." She reached deep into her pocket and brought out a long, slender piece of metal, glittering all along one edge. "However a woman who carries a knife is ready for trouble. Generally speaking, it's easier to appear harmless. It's less trouble all around.