Gun Barrel Quotes

#1. Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned.

Meljean Brook

#2. The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

Moshe Dayan

#4. His gun was a .357 Magnum, great for whale hunting. It was overkill for anything on two legs. That was human. I felt very human staring down that gun barrel.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. With a gun barrel pressed between you're teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.

Moshe Dayan

#7. You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#8. Your doctrine can be as straight as a gun barrel and just as empty!

Leonard Ravenhill

#9. I was surrounded on all sides by the indifferent torpidity of summer, somewhere there were dogs barking lazily, while the machine-gun barrel of the sun was strafing the earth in a continuous, never-ending burst of fire.

Victor Pelevin

#10. The look in her eyes is of a person who drank from the end of a gun barrel and found it delicious.

Rene Denfeld

#11. Markov died while trying to fit a small, slippery shotgun shell into a narrow gun barrel, in the dark, at thirty below zero - with a tiger bearing down on him from ten yards away.

John Vaillant

#12. With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

Jeremy Scahill

#14. Victory was for those willing to fight and die. Intellectuals could theorize until they sucked their thumbs right off their hands, but in the real world, power still flowed from the barrel of a gun.

Mark Bowden

#15. we are holding hands in the barrel of a gun. they pull the trigger, but when she is kissing me only cherry blossoms come out.

Topaz Winters

#16. Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three
She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me
Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening
Lick the blood that covers me
She's the last one standing
"Roulette"
Collateral Damage, Track 11

Gayle Forman

#17. She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad case of barrel envy.

Patrick Major Dallas OR

#18. Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

Veronica Roth

#19. Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

Hannah Arendt

#20. All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

Mao Zedong

#21. You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

Helen Thomas

#22. If some thug breaks into my home I can use my roundhouse kick, but I prefer he look down the barrel of my gun.

Chuck Norris

#23. There's this small flicker in time when you're looking down the barrel of a gun and instead of your life flashing before your eyes, it's all the moments you missed out on.

Melyssa Winchester

#24. You can't sit down in a bachelor's house without getting sick with cooties from the dirt and built-up grime, but you can eat off the barrel of his gun.

Deb Baker

#25. the stern of my ship." "Indeed." Marianne said with a slight smile. Noah methodically poured gun powder into the barrel, then rammed the bullet inside with a ramrod. "Mr. Drummond, surely you know that bringing him here endangers my entire family.

MaryLu Tyndall

#26. You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

Helen Thomas

#27. Genuine harmony must come from the heart. It cannot come from the barrel of a gun.

Dalai Lama

#28. when it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography

Mohsin Hamid

#29. Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

Desmond Tutu

#30. I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.

Henry Rollins

#31. When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is the spin of a gun cylinder, every decision pointing the barrel at your head. Over and over, again and again, you pull the trigger, hoping it won't be your last turn in the game.

J.M. Darhower

#32. Raven briefly pondered the phrase, "staring down the barrel of a gun". It wasn't really that accurate, he decided. After all, it was too dark to see any features down a barrel, only a black circle at the end of it.

A. Ashley Straker

#33. As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

Kevin Keegan

#34. Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.

Tahereh Mafi

#35. The fox who end up living the life they expected are more often than not end up taking sleeping pills or taking the barrel of a gun and pulling the trigger.

Stephen King

#36. To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Tommy Douglas

#37. I stared down the slim barrel of a gun, looked into eyes rabid with fear and hatred, and saw my reflection. Pulled the trigger to make it go away.
I heard the echoes of my gunshots, smelled the cordite, and in the smoke, I still saw my reflection and knew I always would.

Dennis Lehane

#38. I never subscribed to what you might call the neo-Conservative position that somehow, at the barrel of a gun, overnight, liberty and democracy could be conjured up.

Gordon Brown

#39. We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog.

Ron Bloom

#40. You should be more careful," said Josh with a crooked grin, the barrel of his gun still smoking. "It's dangerous around here. You could get hurt."
Sam grinned back savagely. "I'll try to remember.

Phillip W. Simpson

#41. I paused for a moment, debating whether to turn and look what was happening. My senses told me Obo's presence was still at my side, and turning my face into the barrel of a gun seemed like an ill-advised way to cap off this day of monumentally stupid decisions.

M.A. George

#42. I don't know why America always thinks she has to run all around the world forcing people to take our way of governance at the barrel of a gun. When you've got something really good, you don't have to force it on people. They will steal it!

Dick Gregory

#43. Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun ...

Mao Tse-tung

#44. Democracy never comes by the barrel of a gun, or by cluster bombs.

Malalai Joya

#45. The folks who end up living the lives they expected are more often than not the ones who end up takin sleepin pills or stickin the barrel of a gun in their mouths qnd pullin the trigger.

Stephen King

#46. As we walk I can hear the barrel of his gun, slapping against his thigh.

Lauren Oliver

#47. With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels. We're

Chuck Palahniuk

#48. Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

Khaled Hosseini

#49. Seamus walked a direct line to Frank and handed him the gun, backwards, with the barrel open.

Amy Vansant

#50. Let us never yield to those who believe political power flows from the barrel of a gun, to

Marcus Sakey

#51. It's a prissy, overdecorated P238 SIG Sauer, red and black, with gold-inlaid flowers scrolling down the barrel. Morris drops the clip and sees it's full. There's even one in the pipe. He puts the clip back in and lays the gun on the desk - something else to take along.

Stephen King

#52. Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket

Andrew Lennon

#53. She ran her fingers over the stock and down the barrel, then drew in a sharp breath and paused.

This was the gun she'd killed Soren Tarbic with.

E.J. Fisch

#54. How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it.

Michael Moore

#55. There is nothing quite like the cold taste of gun oil on a stainless steel barrel to bring your life into focus.

Josh Stallings