“Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.” MenMeanWarCertainSupportSawsConditionsWasteGunFoolishExperimentsAviationLionsWasting TimeRiflesAir PowerCaliberAirpower Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their bad poems and go off to run guns in Africa, and the bad poets, who publish theirs and keep writing more until they die.” WritingKindTwoRunningRememberCertainDiesPoetGunPublish Author:Umberto Eco
“Homicide through gun violence is the leading cause of death among young African American males in the United States. If people look a certain way they have a higher tendency of dying, of having their lives taken away.” PeopleIfsWayLooksStatesYoungCertainCausesUnitedUnited StatesTakenViolenceDyingHigherGunMalesTendenciesAfrican AmericanGun ViolenceHomicideLeading Causes Author:Ryan Coogler
“I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.” IfsKnowsWantWritingLooksCharacterHappensCertainAbilityRoomsConflictGunFairsMachinesSmellInevitableMinorsCreepsEntropyMachine GunsMy Fair Lady Author:Adam Rapp
“Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing. [...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.” MeanSelfCertainPrinciplesGunKillingConservativeMindsetDefenseOwnersNutsSensibilityFanaticsSelf DefenseBedrockGun OwnersConserving Author:Ilana Mercer
“When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.” BigsCertainCultureGunOutcomes Author:Joanna Russ
“The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it. For a people to express openly their fear of those of us who are afraid of tyranny is alarming. Fear of the state is in no sense subversive. It is, to the contrary, the healthiest political philosophy for a free people.” PeopleWellsCountryStatesPhilosophySeemsGovernmentPoliticalCertainFatherDangerousMastersGunContraryCirclesTyrannyTendenciesConclusionOur CountryServantFearfulPolitical PhilosophySubversive Author:Jeff Cooper
“There are certain aspects of celebrity that I understand, although that's not the main point of the story [in Assassination of Jesse James] , but it is one of the by products. I certainly understand what its like to be hunted and have a bounty on my head but at least nobody is pointing guns at me.” StoriesCertainProductsGunAspectPointingAssassinationBountyHunted Author:Brad Pitt
“Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.” IfsWantWritingTryingWellsLittlesPlayAmericaCertainGamesFunBitsClassAudienceViolenceLittle BitExpectationsGunGenreHaikuRoller CoasterGun ViolenceCoastersComplete FreedomRoller Coaster Rides Author:Ethan Hawke
“[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.” ThinkingWellsProblemCertainChoicesForceNationsRolesRightsViolenceSecurityPolicySeriousPrideGunStandingArmyPoliceTablesCourtAmendmentsSupreme CourtMeltingSecond AmendmentGun ViolenceConstitutional RightsPolice ForceSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticePersonal Security Author:Antonin Scalia
“I think that there are certain guns that, of course, I don't know who needs a machine gun, personally. But I think rifles and things like that are fine. I think that in the wrong hand is when a gun becomes a problem.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsProblemHandsCertainCoursesFineGunMachinesRiflesMachine Guns Author:Morgan Spurlock
“I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.” PeopleWantStatesPoliticalCertainTypeWeaponsGunBackgroundsChecksInstantGun ControlAssaultPerilBansAssault WeaponsBackground Checks Author:Bernie Sanders
“For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated.” KindCertainGunOriginalsRoseChemistryEmbodimentGuns N Roses Author:Slash
“What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.” PeopleGivingTryingMatterCertainFallSubjectsHugeKissingGunShotsHollywoodHorseOriginalsStrategyGenrePlotDevicesAtomsExhaustedCowboyImageryArrowsSubject MatterHollywood MoviesFalling OffRecycledFolders Author:John Baldessari
“Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.” KnowsWantTryingCertainPresidentGunPresident ObamaSite Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“It was in the nineties. [Bill] Clinton was president. And Clinton was making, you know, the usual Democrat move on guns after some of event, and Wayne LaPierre said, "I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence."” ThinkingKnowsSaidMovingCertainPresidentLevelsViolenceEventsComfortableGunBillsClintonDemocratUsualWayne Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably the other has to say something like, "Well I'm thinking he was shot in the neck with a certain gun and he seemed to be running." The solver has to picture what he's seeing first, and then express his own observations. The writer does the same.” ThinkingFirstsWellsDoeSaidShowsRunningCertainWatchesSeeingCrimeGunShotsObservationNecksInvestigators Author:Patti Smith
“I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to die, then I couldn't raise the gun to my head fast enough.” IfsEnoughWould BeWantedCertainDiesGunRaises Author:Dennis Lehane
“I need a weapon,” Valkyrie muttered. “You’re an Elemental with a Necromancer ring, trained in a variety of martial arts by some of the best fighters in the world,” Skulduggery pointed out. “I’m fairly certain that makes you a weapon.” “I mean a weapon you hold. You have a gun, Tanith has a sword... I want a stick.” “I’ll buy you a stick for Christmas.” WorldWantNeedsMeanArtCertainWeaponsGunSticksRingsVarietyMartial ArtsElementalsSkulduggery PleasantValkyrie Cain Author:Derek Landy
“Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.” IfsHardCertainLeaderDogGunShouldersUniforms Author:Stokely Carmichael
“Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.” ShouldSelfUseFormCertainGunDefenseGun ControlSelf DefenseAmmunition Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.” ThinkingCertainTakenAmountTrainingGunGun ControlRestriction Author:Ronald Reagan
“As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's much, much bigger than that. I've come to understand that a cultural war is raging across our land, in which, with Orwellian fervor, certain acceptable thoughts and speech are mandated.” WarCertainPoliticsIssuesLandSpeechGunBiggerRageTargetAcceptableAmendmentsGun ControlSecond AmendmentFirearmsFervorOrwellian Author:Charlton Heston
“I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don't see the point of using violence to oppose violence, but many people would and the Brotherhood know that. For this reason they want an unarmed population. Adolph Hitler introduced gun laws shortly before he began to transport people to his concentration camps.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantPersonsReasonUseLawCertainViolenceCircumstancesGunInstinctPopulationConcentrationCampsBrotherhoodGun ControlTransportConcentration CampUnarmedGun LawAdolph Hitler Book:The Biggest Secret Source: The Biggest Secret
“There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on what works, what doesn't, and what really has an impact, recognizing you're never going to do away entirely with gun violence” NeedsLooksCertainViolenceResearchGunImpactAppealsGun ControlRecognizingFirearmsGun Violence Author:Kim Campbell