quotes about Bombs
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I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.
-- A.M. HomesSource : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books
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Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
-- Abdallah II -
A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.
-- Albert Einstein -
Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
-- Albert Einstein -
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What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
-- Aldous Huxley -
The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.
-- Ally Carter -
I turned atheist in the 90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.
-- Amish Tripathi -
The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
-- Andre BretonSource : "Surrealism and Painting". Book by André Breton, 1972.
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I've always thought that the most powerful weapon in the world was the bomb and that's why I gave it to my people, but I've come to the conclusion that the most powerful weapon in the world is not the bomb but it's the truth
-- Andrei SakharovSource : "Wesley Snipes: The Wisdom of Wesley". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. August 1, 1998.
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
-- Antonin Artaud -
The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
When windows shatter through a bomb, we will repair it next week because we are Afghans. That's the spirit.
-- Ashraf GhaniSource : "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror
-- Barack Obama -
I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.
-- Barbara Bush -
After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
-- Barney Ross -
You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
-- Barry Goldwater -
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
-- Ben AffleckSource : "Fictional character: Holden". "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", www.imdb.com. 2001.
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Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.
-- Bernard Lown -
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I don't regret setting bombs.
-- Bill AyersSource : Bill Ayers (2002). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.311, Beacon Press
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If the Russians ever decide to atom bomb us, they're certain to drop an especially large one on the plant in Pleasantville.
-- Billy Rose -
The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
-- Brendan Behan -
The greatest threat of harm doesn't come from any bomb
-- Brother Ali -
The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
-- Carey Mulligan -
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Government! Government! What do I get for all I give, I'd like to know! Potholes and bombs!
-- Cecil Dawkins -
Usually in a battle sequence when a bomb is going off, you forget you're acting.
-- Charlie Sheen -
I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
-- Chris Cleave -
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I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise we would never have won.
-- Christopher LeeSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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And when I say it, they get alarmed... 'Cause I'm louder than a bomb.
-- Chuck D -
For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy our Shangri-la nonetheless. It isn't the absence of the problem; it is how one lives in its presence that matters.
-- Chungliang Al Huang -
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
-- Conor Oberst -
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To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.
-- Constant LambertSource : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert , "The Revolutionary Situation", p. 32, 1934.
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We're going to bomb them back into the stone Age.
-- Curtis LeMay -
Now I lay me down to sleep my bomb proof cellar's good and deep but if i'm killed before I wake remember god it's for your sake amen.
-- Dalton Trumbo -
Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word.
-- David Gest -
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Other than the bombs they strap to their chests, Ive got no idea what makes the Palestinians tick.
-- Dennis Miller -
The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.
-- Diana Vreeland -
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.
-- Edward Teller -
There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
-- Elayne Boosler -
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You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.
-- Elliott Smith -
My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.
-- Evel Knievel -
A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life.
-- Facundo Cabral -
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Someone threw a petrol bomb at Alex Higgins once and he drank it!
-- Frank Carson -
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation], and not its first misuse by politicians and military authorities.
-- Frederick SoddySource : "In Commemoration of Professor Frederick Soddy" by New Europe Group, 6-7, 1956.
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Bombs are probably more merciful than bayonets
-- G. H. Hardy -
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If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.
-- George McGovern -
I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!
-- George Sweeting -
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.
-- George Wald -
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection-only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation.
-- George WaldSource : "A Generation in Search of a Future". George Wald's speech at an anti-war teach-in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 4, 1969); published in Chicago Journalism Review by Ron Dorfman, May 1969.
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A theological time bomb, set to go off with dramatic consequences.
-- George WeigelSource : George Weigel (2009). “Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II”, p.343, Zondervan
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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.
-- Grant Morrison -
You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.
-- Greg Mortenson -
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The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.
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Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!
-- Gregory CorsoSource : Gregory Corso, Bill Morgan (2003). “An Accidental Autobiography: The Selected Letters of Gregory Corso”, p.5, New Directions Publishing
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Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.
-- Greta Van Susteren -
The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.
-- Gus Van Sant -
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Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction.
-- Haim Harari -
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.
-- Harold InnisSource : Harold A. Innis, Daniel Drache (1995). “Staples, Markets, and Cultural Change: Selected Essays”, p.17, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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I have to decide Japanese strategy - shall we invade Japan proper or shall we bomb and blockade? That is my hardest decision to date. But I'll make it when I have all the facts.
-- Harry S. Truman -
I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
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The Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell because the Japanese had lost control of their own air.
-- Henry H. Arnold -
But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.
-- Henry L. StimsonSource : Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd
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Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.
-- Hermann Goring -
If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.
-- Hiroko Sakai -
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That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't know what's going on below. You don't see the human consequences of what you're doing.
-- Howard Zinn -
I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doing.
-- Howard Zinn -
Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.
-- Hugh Gaitskell -
The bomb lives only as it is falling.
-- Iain BanksSource : "Use of Weapons". Book by Iain Banks, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 1990.
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If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
-- Ian Hacking -
I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.
-- Idi Amin -
There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
-- Irwin Redlener -
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids ?
-- Isidor Isaac Rabi -
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I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
-- Issey Miyake -
My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
-- J. Robert OppenheimerSource : Lawrence Kushner (2001). “Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians”, p.61, Jewish Lights Publishing
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
-- Jack Nicholson -
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In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did that happen? I've never read when flesh dissolved; it can now, because of necrotizing fasciitis, or the neutron bomb, but not in 70AD.
-- Jack Van Impe -
For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
-- James Buchan -
Guns, grendels, or nuclear bombs; take your pick.
-- James Rollins -
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The world is on fire; time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done
-- Jeet Thayil -
I don't like hope very much. In fact, I hate it. It's the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard. It's bad news. The worst. It's sharp sticks and cherry bombs. When hope shows up, it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt.
-- Jennifer DonnellySource : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing
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The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.
-- Jerome Cady -
Allah is not Jehovah either. Jehovah's not going to turn you into a terrorist that'll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people.
-- Jerry Vines -
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I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.
-- Jim Butcher -
I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
-- Joe E. Lewis -
Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me.
-- John BetjemanSource : John Betjeman (2007). “Tennis Whites and Teacakes”, Hodder & Stoughton
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There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
-- John H. Vincent -
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
-- John H. Vincent -
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
-- John HerseySource : "Hiroshima's fate, 70 years ago this week, must not be forgotten" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2015.
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I think the Internet is the most dangerous thing invented since the atomic bomb,
-- John Mellencamp -
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The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.
-- Joseph Campbell -
I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.
-- Judd ApatowSource : Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. July 9, 2008.
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Guy got in a gyrocopter in Gettysburg, flew under the radar all the way to Washington and came - What if he had had rather than petitions to Congress had had a bomb?
-- Karl Rove -
I actually have to pick and chose stuff that I know I'm going to bomb at.
-- Kathy Griffin -