Weapon Quotes

• We all grew up in that era. I'm a little younger than these guys [Will Forte and John Solomon], but I would say all of us are huge fans of the original "MacGyver" series, and obviously we found that inspiration for the original pitch for MacGruber. We took his name and made it stupid. In terms of the inspiration for the movie, that really came from our love for late '80s/early '90s action movies - the whole "Lethal Weapon" series and "Rambo" and "Die Hard," every single [Arnold] Schwarzenegger and [Sylvester] Stallone film.

  

  Will Forte
  • Action
  • Inspiration
  • Solomon

• Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Weakness
  • Weapon
  • Wield

• It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Weapon
  • Restraint
  • Fasting

• We don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Peaceful
  • Nuclear
  • Diplomatic

• I've seen some remarkable games but I've never seen anything like that before. It's just a personal challenge for him to attack the whole team. It was not exactly the way you want to win a game, but when you have to win a game, it's great to have that weapon to be able to do it. We rode the hot the hand.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Great
  • Game
  • Team

• No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Crime
  • Figures
  • Conclusion

• The theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it.

  

  Augusto Boal
  • Theater
  • Weapon
  • Wield

• The room...is converted into a weapon, ... made to demonstrate that everything is a weapon, the objects themselves, and with them the fact of civilization, are annihilated: there is no wall, no window, no door, no bathtub, no refrigerator, no door, no chair, no bed.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Civilization
  • Demonstrate
  • Refrigerator

• Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong," then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Conscience
  • Deserve
  • Weapon

• A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Weapon
  • Sword
  • Slayer

• Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Weak
  • Weapon
  • Bravest

• “Force is the weapon of the weak.”

  

  Ammon Hennacy
  • Force
  • Weak
  • Weapon

• No weapon is sharper than will.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Weapon
  • Sharper

• In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and your entrenching tool. The sharpened spade is a lighter and more versatile weapon - not only can you get a man under the chin, but more to the point, you can strike a blow with a lot more force behind it. That's especially true if you can bring it down diagonally between the neck and the shoulder, because then you can split down as far as the chest. When you put a bayonet in, it can stick, and you have to give the other man a hefty kick in the guts to get it out.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Attack
  • Tool
  • Split

• Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

  

  Angelique Kidjo
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Weapon

• Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Laughter
  • Terrible
  • Weapon

• What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Weapon
  • Accurate
  • Snipers

• The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hands
  • Weapon
  • Protest

• My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

  

  Wilfred Burchett
  • First
  • Anger
  • Later

• Possessing a weapon has made me bashful. Tears appreciate in this economy of pleasure. The ether of data engulfs the capitol. Possessing a weapon has made me forgetful. My oboe tars her cenotaph. The surface is in process. Coruscant skinks emerge in force. The moon spits on a copse of spruce. Plausible opposites stir in the brush. Jupiter spins in its ruts. The wind extends its every courtesy. I have never been here. Understand? You have never seen me.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Wind
  • Force
  • Economy

• Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy.

  

  Jenny Holzer
  • Fear
  • Hands
  • Messy

• Smart snacking is an invaluable weapon against cravings and poor food choices. For me, this translates to three meals and two snacks a day, each containing protein, fiber, and healthy fat.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Weapon
  • Cravings
  • Snacking

• Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.

  

  Saul Alinsky
  • Weapon
  • Ridicule
  • Potent

• What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • God
  • Space
  • Safeguard

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