Best 713 quotes in «weapons quotes» category

But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?" "Yeah, I guess so,” I said, But it’s not true. A mockingbird is just a songbird. A mockingjay is a creature the capitol never intended to exist. They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

Change of regime with respect to Iraq had nothing to do with this; it had everything to do with the fact that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. And at the time change in regime as a policy came into effect in 1998, it was seen as the only way to compel Iraq to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction.

Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

China is one of the world's greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

Conditioning is my best weapon.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

Covenants without swords are but words.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission." "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered. "Selling them on what?" Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.

Dr. A.Q. Khan's part is only enriching the uranium to weapons grade, ... He does not know about making the bomb, he does not know about the trigger mechanism, he does not know about the delivery system

Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in one sentence: education is the best weapon for peace.

Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction in the early 20th century.

Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their thoughts 'from above'.

Every victory accomplished with weapons is a funeral that should be mourned.

Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real.

Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.

Fasting is a tremendous weapon and a source of power in the life of a believer.

Finally, a safer world presupposes the revival of the virtuous circle of non-proliferation of weapons and disarmament.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

Fortunately, war in Latin America is usually waged only with words. The tongue is our most dangerous weapon. We talk too much!

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

Given a choice of weapons with you sir, I should choose grammar.

From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it's rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it's altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product.

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

God's training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.