Thomas Carlyle Quotes
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.Thomas Carlyle
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
Gabrielle Giffords -
To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.
Paget Brewster -
I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.
Yvonne Strahovski -
Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
Carlene Carter
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Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.
Carl Levin -
I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
Maggie Q -
Muzaffarnagar is 40 kilometers from my village. So I used to see films if I was able to save money and on special occasions like Eid, Diwali.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
The xx do not condone guns!
Oliver Sim The xx -
I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Yancy Butler
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I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.
Lisa See -
Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.
Caitlin Thomas -
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
Madeleine Albright -
.... Finch, a small and somnolent village set among the rolling hills and the patchwork fields of the Cotswolds, a pastoral haven described in countless guidebooks as one of the prettiest regions in England.
Nancy Atherton -
Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.
Vladimir Putin
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Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.
Paul Pierce -
I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.
William Shenstone -
I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than to see it in all its subregions and subcultures both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery.
Wallace Stegner -
I want to play more festivals.
Kat Edmonson -
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.
Thomas Carlyle