#bullet

It's easy to be quick on the draw when no one has got real bullets. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#draw #easy #got #quick #real

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life. ↗

— Blake Shelton

#bullet #going #i #i think #life

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#could #feel #how #i #i feel

There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation. ↗

— Scott Adams

#anything #bullets #clock #close #deadlines

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#bullet #closes #like #military #passes

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#alienation #battle #become #bullet #capital

The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type. ↗

— Edward Conlon

#bullet-resistant #bulletproof #bulletproof-vest #death #job-hazards

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#bullet #life

It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact. ↗

— Joe Hill

#life #life

Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#memories #metaphor #pain #tears