#grenade

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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.


John Leonard


#baseball #basketball #cumulative #football #game

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.


Norman Mailer


#child #diane #giving #grenade #hands

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?


Alva Myrdal


#bank #come #constitute #grenades #hand

I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.


Peter Scott


#australia #back #come #consequently #disappointed

I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.


John Green


#john-green #the-fault-in-our-stars #love

I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.


Courtney Schafer


#horse-shoes #life-and-living #life

I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.


Stephen Bayley


#grenades #hand #having #i #into

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.


Yann Martel


#bullets #fashion #grenades #i #long

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.


Pat Roberts


#full #grenades #hand #i #partisan

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.


Frank Robinson


#close #count #counts #grenades #only