#rifle

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#company #how #however #matter #might

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable. ↗

— Thomas Day

#every #every heart #fact #general #heart

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible. ↗

— Dale Earnhardt

#better #both #dale #holding #hunting

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#captain #charged #dollars #down #goes

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler. ↗

— Jack Kirby

#chocolate #go #handed #hitler #i

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#association #national #pathetic #rifle #rule

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

#bill-of-rights #constitution #evil #freedom #good-and-evil

In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have nver met with such a thing as a trifle yet. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#importance #trifles #experience

Bolt actions speak louder than words. ↗

— Craig Roberts

#rifle #snipe #sniper #war #words

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#investigation #methods #mysteries #sherlock-holmes #trifles