Munitions Quotes

#1. It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle. p28

Donna Tartt

#2. From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945.

Sophal Ear

#3. She and a friend joked about what to do if the ship were attacked. "Our stewardess laughed," Mrs. Lines recalled, "and said we would not go down, but up, as we were well loaded with munitions.

Erik Larson

#4. When it is fairly quiet we can hear the transports behind the enemy lines rolling ceaselessly until dawn. Kat says that they do not go back but are bringing up troops - troops, munitions, and guns.

Erich Maria Remarque

#5. Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.
Munitions Commander? Why me?
I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part.
-Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn

Howard Tayler

#6. Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

Regis Debray

#7. The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements ... all this had a very bad effect on morale. Many longed to get across the Volga, to escape the hell of Stalingrad.

Vasily Chuikov

#8. By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million shells a year.

Saul David

#9. As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war - but ideas!

George R. Stewart

#10. Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

Jim Dunnigan

#11. If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we'd be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.

Ralph Nader

#12. That love seemed to increase their desire to undo the corporations that made them. It used to be you had to make munitions to piss people off. Now it was enough to be large, global and successful. That made it a more radical, systematic critique, Nash thought. And more futile, naturally.

Dana Spiotta

#13. My best security is within the munitions of an immutable Jehovah, where His unalterable promises stand like giant walls of rock.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

Neill Blomkamp

#15. In your country the munitions makers ride in their limousines and prepare their wars, while the workers cannot afford new shoes.

Gregory Benford

#16. I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

Anita Brookner

#17. The workshop of missionary munitions is the hidden, personal, worshipping life of the saint.

Oswald Chambers

#18. My dad was a Navy munitions officer, and by the end of his career, he was a specialist in nuclear weapons.

James Mercer

#19. People die, sure," my mother was saying. "But it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

Donna Tartt

#20. Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.

Gail Carriger

#21. Since this used to be a Martian ship, I thought maybe you'd have reloads that would fit our racks." "Sure," Captain Tseng said without a moment's hesitation. "I'll have the destroyer Sally Ride pull alongside for munitions transfer.

James S.A. Corey

#22. The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

Clint Eastwood

#23. We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in the equation, who can cause the precision munitions to go precisely where they should go, pays a huge dividend.

Tommy Franks

#24. Your people sell the weapons. My people use them.

Henry V. O'Neil

#25. I come from a heavy-lidded people. My family, you'll see pictures of them, and it's the same thing all the way back to Scotland.

French Stewart

#26. I'm lucky enough to lead a very active life, so I'm always on the go.

Blake Lively

#27. It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me in her entirety because a lot of people just don't like me and I don't think they would be interested in reading about me, even in the fictional context.

Christopher Darden

#28. It's a rare thing to be with another person and not feel an obligation to fill every second with talk.

Jessica Park

#29. I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

Quincy Jones

#30. We were all meant to save many lives. God is always trying to save lives, and it seems like He usually uses the least likely people to do it.

Bob Goff

#31. It no longer mattered if it was the chicken or the egg; it was quite simply a nest from which both beautiful and damaged things came.

Tessie Regan

#32. Be a sparrow, I told myself. Be silent and fly away. No one will bother you if you disappear.

Laura Whitcomb

#33. It's a really, really scary thing to stand here, to put words in people's mouths to say to God. It's terrifying to me. You potentially could mess someone up for...I don't know, eternity.

David Crowder

#34. If I pay you lots of money to see reality in a certain way, you will.

Dan Ariely

#35. Supernatural man drama was making me grouchy.

Chloe Neill