Shoot Quotes
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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.
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More Shoot Quotes
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me.
— Christina G. Rossetti, A Birthday.
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.
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 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.
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'
When Icame back to Dublin,Iwas courtmartialled inmy absence and sentenced to death in myabsence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
— 1958 The Hostage, act1.
I'll cable Hitler and ask him to shoot around you.
— 1939 Remark to David Niven, Sep, when Niven left Hollywood to return to England. Quoted in David Niven Bring on the Empty Horses (1975).
When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
brendan behan— Hostage (1958)
The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.
john d. carmack— Quoted in David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture Chapter 14, p. 254.
I think you just have to be comfortable in your skin. But, I'm a nudist in any case. I've never had a problem with my body and I don't really care what people think, so I have bottoms on and pretty much go topless, or also when we shoot - we did a lot of nude pictures today, too - it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
heidi klum— Discussing her ease with nude photo shoots, as quoted in Allure Magazine, May 2012
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
bjarne stroustrup— Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?. Retrieved on 2007-11-15.
Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave.
paul blobel— Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 157 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961
“All this talk of using tax policy to ‘assess social costs’...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.”
david brin— Part VII (p. 327)
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— The Man He Killed (1902), lines 17-20, from Time's Laughingstocks (1909).
I don't think I could shoot a deer. Quayle, that's something else again.
— George H. W. Bush in "YouTube video"
Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.
philip sidney— Book 2, page 253.
You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars regardless of who you are
Chad Kroeger— Chad Kroeger, in the song "If Today Was Your Last Day" (2008) performed by his band, Nickelback
For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country," when the guns begin to shoot.
rudyard kipling— Rudyard Kipling, Tommy.
Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
— Thomas Moore, p. 328. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
O Blackbird! sing me something well: While all the neighbors shoot thee round, I keep smooth plats of fruitful ground, Where thou may'st warble, eat and dwell.
— Alfred Tennyson, The Blackbird; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 71
Don't shoot! Look... L-Let's talk this over!
— Who: James Ramsey
— Note: Character was asking Cletus Samson, the deranged owner of a gun store for guns to defend himself. Cletus shoots James in the chest with his shotgun after saying these words.
shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.
hermann göring— Instruction to the Prussian police (1933); as quoted in The House that Hitler Built (1937) by Stephen Henry Roberts. p. 63
[Black Mage: Okay, are you ready?] shoot. [Black Mage: Astos? Mo' like yo' ass is toast!]
— Who: Chancellor Usurper/King Astos
— Note: The character collapses after Black Mage taunts him with the line above. According to the Light Warriors, Black Mage's taunt was so shockingly stupid, that it pushed the character's heart over the edge, killing him.
shoot me, Agent Doggett. If you think it will make a difference this time.
— Who: Knowle Rohrer
— Source: The X-Files episode "The Truth"
— Note: Character, a Super Soldier, says this before being shot by Agent Doggett; character then dies after being fatally exposed to magnetite.
