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To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs — but a tribute nevertheless.
George Steiner— "Marxism and the Literary Critic," Encounter, XI (November 1958)
shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Leslie Calvin Brown— "Les" Brown is an American motivational speaker, author, radio DJ, former television host, and former politician.
He can't even shoot straight.
joseph stalin— On his son Yakov’s suicide attempt, as quoted in Encyclopedia of Useless Information (2007) by William Harston
You don't need to be 'straight'to fight and die for your country.You just need to shoot straight.
— 1993 On homosexuals in the military. In Life, Dec.
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
william ralph inge— 1948 The End of an Age, ch.4.
I'm going to go over and get them out of the bunker myself. If the squad opens up on them, shoot 'em.
thompson, hugh, jr.— To Spec. Lawrence Colburn, giving him the order to fire on any fellow US Army soldiers if they attempted to kill a group of unarmed Vietnamese civilians. [1]
You [recruits] have sworn loyalty to me. You have only one enemy and that is my enemy. In the present social confusion it may come about that I order you to shoot down your own relatives, brothers or parents but even then you must follow my orders without a murmur.
— Speech (23 November 1891), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 158.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes. You may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
maya angelou— "Still I Rise"
The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.
terry pratchett— Terry Pratchett, Eric (T)
I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten 'em.
— E. M. Forster, Abinger Harvest (1936), 'Mickey and Minnie'
Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. See Milton 580:93.
Alexander Pope— 1733 An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.13-16.
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew Your cosmopolitan sympathies.
Isaac Rosenberg— 1916 'And God KnowsWhat Antipathies'.
"Hey, gang!" I squeaked in my terrifically accurate Mickey voice. "Everybody ready to shoot the ultimate Disney flick? The film that rips the lid off the goody two-shoes hypocrisy that lies sweltering beneath the surface of G-rated true-life adventures? Okay, you guys, let's get that hand-held Arriflex right down there between Minnie's legs! I wanna see closeups of quivering labia!"
harlan ellison— The Three Most Important Things in Life (1978)
I want to live in a city where the police don’t shoot you.
martin firrell— quoted in The Guardian on the first anniversary of the unlawful shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes by the Metropolitan Police (22 July 2006)
Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.
— Statement appearing in the Chicago Tribune in 1885, as quoted in "What’s Missing From Black History Month" by Jon Hochshartner in The Red Pheonix (10 February 2012)
Now days battles are just sort of a "You shoot up my town and I'll shoot up yours." They say that Americans don't play fair. They shoot 'em up all the time. I hope so because I want to finish this job as soon as possible and begin making an honest living again.
harry s. truman— Letter to Bess Wallace (31 July 1918)
I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.
harry s. truman— Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman (1960)
They’d have me out and shoot me the first day they took charge. Anyone like me is intolerably subversive to an authoritarian régime, because I’m not interested in imposing my ideas by force on other people.
john brunner— tracking with closeups (8) “Ill Wind”
And thou wert lovely to the last, Extinguish'd, not decay'd; As stars that shoot along the sky Shine brightest as they fall from high.
lord byron— And Thou Art Dead as Young and Fair (1812)
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!” But it's “Saviour of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot.
rudyard kipling— Tommy, Stanza 5.
Sokolov put the odds at 100 percent that Peter would, sooner or later, do something stupid and cause enormous trouble. Peter would do this because he believed he was clever and because he thought only of himself. It would be safer to take him out and shoot him now, but disposing of the body would be difficult and the shock of it would probably disturb the equilibrium of Zula.
neal stephenson— Day 2 (Part I: Nine Dragons)
We have dealt with all these idealists in the past, I’m sure we’ll find a way to deal with them today... Rid our world of all these fanatics one by one, won’t let not prophet lover ruin my fun. We’ll string ‘em up and shoot ‘em down.
dawud wharnsby— "Wood and Nails"
Alimony - the greatest crap shoot in family law.
— " MARSHAL WILLICK, ESQ" by The Nevada Lawyer, April 2007 [2]
Go ahead, shoot me. Be a man.
— Who: Clayton
— Source: Tarzan (1999)
— Note: Character, facing Tarzan, said this when Tarzan is holding his shotgun to his head. Tarzan refuses, replying, "Not a man like you!", after which Tarzan breaks the rifle. Then the character attacks in a rage with a machete. In his rage he slices through several vines, one of which falls around his neck and suspends him, ending in him hanging himself.
Close by a rock, of less enormous height, Breaks the wild waves, and forms a dangerous strait; Full on its crown, a fig's green branches rise, And shoot a leafy forest to the skies.
— Homer, The Odyssey (c. 8th century BC), Book XII, line 125. Pope's translation.
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 13
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown.
thomas hardy— Thomas Hardy, The Man he Killed. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.
Now, let's not be stupid, okay? We're both rational men, scientists. I know you don't want to shoot her.
— Who: Owen Harper
— Source: Reset (2008)
— Notes: .
Mister death who signs papers then eats telegraphs simply: shoot them then eats
adolf eichmann— Denise Levertov in "During the Eichmann Trial"
