Best 713 quotes in «weapons quotes» category

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

We would like to see, in the future, what we will probably call needs-based licensing of all weapons. ...Where it would make it much more difficult for anybody to be able to purchase handguns.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

What happened in Syria was, President [Barack] Obama had made a statement announcing what he called his "red line": You can't use chemical weapons, you can do anything else but [use] chemical weapons.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps

What is true is [Bashar] Assad got rid of his chemical weapons.

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

What we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. What we can do it make sure that it is not destabilizing neighboring Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons. The key is we’ve got to have a clear objective...

When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt

When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.

When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.

Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?

Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons.

William," the professor said, softly, "what now is your weapon?"...."Truth," he whispered, his voice rasping. He cleared his throat. "Truth is my sword." ...."And what now is your defense?" Colour returned to Billy's face, and his jaw tightened. His voice surged with emotion. "Faith...faith is my shield.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

With regard to nuclear weapons, it's kind of hard to say. [Donald Trump] is said lots of things. The national security experts are terrified. But they're more terrified by his personality than by his statements.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears

Women's weapons, water-drops.

Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.

You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug

You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.

You can see the true heart of a man when you're out in the woods with a weapon

You have amazing gifts. Don't squander them. Don't give them out meaninglessly, don't abuse them, don't take them for granted. You are the weapon you carry with you till the day you die. -Tatiana and Alexander

You have no idea about presents or what they mean. The last present you gave me was a stick.” “You wanted a weapon.” “It was a stick.” “It had a bow on it.” “It was a stick.” “I thought you liked the stick. You laughed.

You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.

Your weapons-master appears to have an actual, beating heart," she said to Raphael. "Who knew?" "Jessamy." "I concede that point." Elena referring to Galen

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.

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

Your mind is your weapon. Load your weapon.

Your mind-set is your primary weapon

Adversity kills fearful people just by showing them its weapons. As to whether that weapon is fatal or fake, they don't care to know before they surrender!

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

All tools are weapons in the hands of the wrong people.

Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.

Angels are flying all around us. I feel their presence in the air and in the dirt. I feel that kind of protection and I’m good. No matter what is formed and created against me.

A riverless silence made the air heavy.