Disarms Quotes

#1. When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.

Ted Nugent

#2. The best preparedness is the one that disarms the hostility of other nations and makes friends of them.

Helen Keller

#3. Nothing disarms strong men like a genuinely innocent and decent woman.

Amish Tripathi

#4. As I've been open with my faith, there's a consistency that almost disarms people. They know what they're going to get when they see me. They know what they're going to get when they talk to me.

Kelly Clark

#5. Because all happiness is contagious, and disarms the spirit of hatred.

Irene Nemirovsky

#6. Candor disarms paranoia.

Allen Ginsberg

#7. I have spent years of my life sitting in my room, creating defenses of cynicism, darkness, and bleakness. Jed's friendship is the skeleton key to my fortress. He disarms me every time.

David Levithan

#8. The approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.

Philip Yancey

#9. [Using humor to explore serious issues] disarms people. It's a way in. It's gentle, but at the same time it's subversive, and I like that duality.

Lisa Loomer

#10. Everything about her disarms me:her smile, her touch, her spirit.Little by little, she's diffusing the bomb that constantly ticks, the one threatening to rip me apart-and I don't even think she gets it.

Beth Michele

#11. There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

Henri Bergson

#12. Like a sudden thaw in the middle of winter, grace happens at unexpected moments. It stops us short, catches the breath, disarms. If we manipulate it, try to control it, somehow earn it, that would not be grace. Yet not everyone has tasted of that amazing grace, and not everyone believes in it.

Philip Yancey

#13. A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it.

Pablo Neruda

#15. If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

Joseph Stalin

#16. Love disarms our emotional defenses; it makes us vulnerable to the other...in suspending our emotional defenses, love exposes our sympathy to the needs of the other.

Paul F. Velleman

#17. Your holiness disarms your enemies and silences them.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

Edmund Waller

#19. Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

William Hazlitt

#20. Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.

David Denby

#21. If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.

Charles Bukowski

#22. Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Marquita Burke-DeJesus

#23. I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?

A.O. Scott

#24. And what never happened always seems beautiful. You are a deception that gives birth to discontent, a deception that I cannot and do not wish to drive away, since it disarms me and protects me from suffering with a quiet grief.

Mesa Selimovic

#25. Even granting that the genius subjected to the test of critical inspection emerges free from all error, we should consider that everything he has discovered in a given domain is almost nothing in comparison with what is left to be discovered.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#26. I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting.

Kanye West

#27. Writing has never been a driving force within me.

Jeffrey Combs

#28. I have never encountered, not even in witchcraft trials, a dead man whom God or the Devil allowed to climb up from the abyss to erase the evidence of his misdeed - then

Umberto Eco

#29. In every room, the furniture reflects you larger than life, or dwindling

Adrienne Rich

#30. John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever.

Nasim Pedrad