bullet quotes

Thinkwhat I have got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past seven hundred years.Will

- Michael Collins
Italian-born  US  astronaut  who  as  a  crew  member  of  Apollo 11 piloted  the  spacecraft  during  its  historic mission  to  the  moon (1969).  He orbited the  moon  alone in  the  command unit  while Neil  Armstrong  and Buzz  Aldrin  made  the  first  manned  lunar landing.

What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.

- Porfirio Diaz
'Each Bullet Has Got Its Commission'. First published1803.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet.Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

-Smith
  In the NewYorker,10 Dec.

In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.

- Edwin Arlington Robinson
  The Children of the Night,'Richard Cory'.

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!

-Jerome Siegel
Introduction for the Superman radio serial. Quoted in Time,14 Mar1988.

Consider: only one bullet in ten thousand kills a man. Ask: was so much expenditure justified On the death of one so young and so silly Stretched under the olive trees,Oh, world,Oh, death?

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
  'Regum Ultimo Ratio'.

Darkness came down on the field and city: and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.

-William Makepeace Thackeray
^8  Vanity Fair, ch.32.

   Every bullet has its billet.

-William III also called  William of Orange
Quoted byJohnWesley, journal entry, 6 Jun1765.