Quotes Tagged "bullets"

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses in all, three of them in the course of one day. I certainly thought that the Bosnian cause was worth fighting for and worth defending, but I could not take myself seriously enough to imagine that my own demise would have forwarded the cause. (I also discovered that a famous jaunty Churchillism had its limits: the old war-lover wrote in one of his more youthful reminiscences that there is nothing so exhilarating as being shot at without result. In my case, the experience of a whirring, whizzing horror just missing my ear was indeed briefly exciting, but on reflection made me want above all to get to the airport. Catching the plane out with a whole skin is the best part by far.) Or suppose I had been hit by that mortar that burst with an awful shriek so near to me, and turned into a Catherine wheel of body-parts and (even worse) body-ingredients? Once again, I was moved above all not by the thought that my death would 'count,' but that it would not count in the least.

Try again; you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot.

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

Let all of us turn from bullets to ballots, from guns to shovels.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

On the 10th of September 1962, sixteen bullets was fired into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tucker for me.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.