Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert A. Heinlein

There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.

Ross MacDonald

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

Rosie O'Donnell

I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get.

Rosie O'Donnell

I think there should be a law - and I know this is extreme - that no one can have a gun in the U.S. If you have a gun, you go to jail. Only the police should have guns.

Roger Rosenblatt

Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

Rush Limbaugh

The Democrats really are not interested in keeping guns out of the hands of terrorists. They're interested in keeping you from being able to get guns.

Rush Limbaugh

Hillary Clinton has said numerous times in this campaign, "If Congress doesn't act to end the plague of gun violence in America," that she will do so by executive action. Now, what is she going to do?

Rush Limbaugh

What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.

Rush Limbaugh

Here they are today, the Democrats; they're making this big deal about how this woman [Hillary Clinton] has overcome all of this discrimination. She has overcome the biggest guns of opposition that have been arrayed against her!

Rush Limbaugh

You Know How To Stop Abortion? Require That Each One Occur With A Gun.

Rush Limbaugh

Blaming guns for murder is like blaming forks for obesity.

Thomas Carlyle

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Tom Waits

We are all just monkeys with money and guns.

Steve Martin

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

Steve Carell

I am happily married, and I think I was lucky that success came a little later in my life. It's difficult to handle all the attention when you are a young gun.

Stephen Holmes

Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do.

Ron Paul

Even if you don't like guns and don't want to own them, you benefit from those who do.

Ron Paul

Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more.

Ron Paul

What can you do? More and more Americans are carrying a gun in the car. An ex-cop I know advises that if you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example.)

Ron Paul

Banning guns because of their misuse is like banning the First Amendment because one might libel or slander.

Susan Cain

If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns.

Susan Cain

So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don't let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don't force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.

Suheir Hammad

I do not know how bad a life has to break in order to kill. I have never been so hungry that I willed hunger. I have never been so angry as to want to control a gun over a pen. Not really. Even as a woman, as a Palestinian, as a broken human being. Never this broken.

Studs Terkel

One night a guy hit his head on a welding gun. He went to his knees. He was bleeding like a pig, blood was oozing out. So I stopped the line for a second and ran over to help him. The foreman turned the line on again, he almost stepped on the guy. That's the first thing they always do. They didn't even call an ambulance. The guy walked to the medic department -- that's about half a mile -- he had about five stitches put in his head. The foreman didn't say anything. He just turned the line on. You're nothing to any of them.

Stephen Gaghan

It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gun point.

Tim Meadows

I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops.

Tim Allen

I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn't like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I'd probably eat vegetables.

Steven R. McQueen

I like a little bit of everything. I think I'll put on Guns 'N' Roses or Rolling Stones any day. But recently I like a band called Bastille, or The Weeknd I'm a big fan of as well.

Toni Morrison

A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world

Tommy Douglas

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Tina St. John

Renata reached out for the gun nearest to her and a full magazine of rounds. She had the weapon loaded, locked and ready for action in three seconds flat. Niko had never seen anything sexier in his life.

Tim Ferriss

In all cases where doubt crops up, ask yourself, "If I had a gun to my head and had to do it, how would I do it?" It's not as hard as you think.