#rifle

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. ↗

— William Allingham

#attain #been #could #disproportionate #gravity

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#jerusalem #palestinian #praying #prevent #ready

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#even #forward #look #matter #never

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#advertised #army #being #day #description

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#capable #careers #comes #courage #did

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#carry #combat #country #field #fight

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him. ↗

— George Clooney

#anyone #association #care #charlton #deserves

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

#citizen #instantly #pick #rifle #subject

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#after #apart #arm #barrels #behind

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#borrow #down #english #just #languages