Dodging Bullets Quotes:

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

- Harvey Milk

source: Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination (the version of recording given to Frank Robinson) as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (p. 372), 1982.

topic: Gay, Doors, Positive Energy, Lgbt Pride, Dodging Bullets

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Freedom, Presidential, Political, Inspirational Voting, Democracy In America

Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

- Larry Miller

topic: Thinking, Ideas, Differences, Dodging Bullets, Slapping

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

- Temple Grandin

topic: People, Magic, Bullets, Dodging Bullets, Autistic Children

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

- John Sedgwick

source: Quoted in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War (1887 - 1888). This line is popularly said to have been Sedgwick's last words and to have been cut off in the middle of "distance." In fact, this was Sedgwick's second-to-last sentence and was completed before the bullet hit.

topic: Elephants, Last Words, Soldiers At War, Famous Last Words, Deathbed

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

- Idi Amin

source: Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”

topic: Running, Military, Evil, Dodging Bullets

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

- Leonard Cohen

topic: Song, Hard Work, Writing, Dodging Bullets

My life is like a speeding bullet that just hasn't hit the target yet.

- Kid Cudi

topic: Life Is Like, Target, Bullets, Speeding, Dodging Bullets

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

- Dean Acheson

topic: Military, Self, Political, Dodging Bullets

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

- Clara Barton

topic: Soldier, Doe, Coats, Dodging Bullets

Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!

- Mackenzie Astin

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Gun, Availability, Evil, Dodging Bullets

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

- Bob Feller

topic: Hero, Names, Soldier, Dodging Bullets

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

- Chris Rock

source: "Accidental Gun Control: Bullets Get Expensive". www.npr.org. May 21, 2008.

topic: Funny, Humor, Gun, Dodging Bullets

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: United States, Bullets, September, Dodging Bullets, Silver Bullets

What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance...

- John Sedgwick

source: John Sedgwick's final words said by him to his men who were ducking for cover at the battle of Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864.

topic: War, Distance, Men, Dodging Bullets

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.

- Mark Zandi

topic: Maturity, Years, Three, Dodging Bullets, Five Years

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

- J. Michael Straczynski

topic: Ideas, Dallas, World, Dodging Bullets

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.

- Peter Bergen

source: "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.

topic: Blood, Leader, Navy, Seals, Dodging Bullets

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

- Kathy Griffin

topic: Hate, Writing, Style, Dodging Bullets

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

- Larry Flynt

topic: Thinking, Years, Bullets, Dodging Bullets

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people.

- Andrew Cuomo

topic: People, Battle, Citizens, Albany, Dodging Bullets

I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

- Phil Collins

topic: Thinking, Bullets, Alamo, Colonels, Dodging Bullets

I mean you can learn how to build a bullet or build a gun or build a bomb on the Internet.

- Barbara Bush

topic: Mean, Gun, Bombs, Dodging Bullets

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

- Dave Barry

topic: Science, Metrics, Bullets, Dodging Bullets, Metric System

I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.

- Lynn Abbey

topic: Writing, Thinking, Bullets, Dodging Bullets

We're dodging bullets and this is right after we've just seen [inaudible] shot and we're running and the woman who John accused of being out to kill us and everyone thought he was kidding. When we see her she appears and she's after us.

- Mary-Louise Parker

source: "Mary-Louise Parker On Set Interview RED". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 14, 2010.

topic: Running, Bullets, Shots, Dodging Bullets