Quotes About Snipers

#1. He was listed as right-handed. The army needed to know that because bolt-action sniper rifles are made for right-handers. Left-handed soldiers don't usually get assigned as snipers. Pigeonholing starts on day one in the military.

Lee Child

#2. Cigarettes are bad for your health." advised the young Apollo.
"Snipers are bad for your health," Hamza returned, not recalling anybody who had died of cigarettes, but many who had died at the hands of snipers.

Ahmet M. Rahmanovic

#3. Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

Dan Simmons

#4. My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot you in the back. Snipers aren't heroes. And invaders are worse.

Michael Moore

#5. The officers shook hands, and the sniper gave a millimetric nod, which Reacher returned, equally briefly, which for two alleged snipers was effusive, and for a dogface and a jarhead meeting for the first time was practically like rolling around on the floor in an ecstatic bear hug.

Lee Child

#6. What about snipers?" I once asked someone. He said, "Oh, most of the snipers have automatic weapon. They arent very accurate.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. It's the story of how I went from being lionized for helping bring the snipers to justice to being vilified for writing a book about it.

Charles A. Moose

#8. When society gives censors wide and vague powers they never confine themselves to deserving targets. They are not snipers, but machine-gunners. Allow them to fire at will, and they will hit anything that moves.

Nick Cohen

#9. But people had forgotten there was a day in the not too distant past when they'd not seen or heard of bombings, and suicide vests, and snipers. Alicia, though, had not forgotten.

Rona Simmons

#10. As the Marine One helicopter lifts off from the White House, the Prowler team watches for snipers. The team also responds to any threat that may arise at the White House itself.

Ronald Kessler

#11. The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.

Antony Beevor

#12. I just want to get the bad guys but if I can't see them, I can't shoot them.

Chris Kyle

#13. Using something real does not destroy the fantastical; it underlines it.

Marcus Speh

#14. I am a much better father and husband than I ever was a sniper.

Chris Kyle

#15. I'm willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

Chris Kyle

#16. Be bold and don't worry about what people think. They don't do it that often anyway.

Tim Ferriss

#17. I'm a natural born sniper.

Renan Barao

#18. I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real victim is his anguished soul.

Max Blumenthal

#19. If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

Washington Allston

#20. God says when. I execute.

Khalid Muhammad

#21. When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

Marianne Faithfull

#22. My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

Lewis Black

#23. If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they're male, shoot 'em. Kill every male you see.

Chris Kyle

#24. Success always takes help. Failure is done alone.

Simon Sinek

#25. The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God's will, but he was a traitor.

Thomas Watson

#26. I remember, particularly, a trip to Bosnia where the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.

Hillary Clinton

#27. War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

John Steinbeck

#28. When desire flows,
Pleasure arises.
Attached to happiness, seeking enjoyment,
People are subject to birth and old age.

Gautama Buddha

#29. American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning

Neil Patrick Harris

#30. I'm brandin', I aint talking bout Presley. I keep a sniper, I aint talking bout Wesley.

Nicki Minaj

#31. I did want to be the top sniper.

Chris Kyle

#32. If you really wanted to settle down the Middle East, if what you wanted was change in the Middle East, it is perfectly obvious that the first step is resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Molly Ivins

#33. Every day, I am thinking:
'How can I lead all living beings
to enter the unsurpassed way
so as to quickly acquire the body of a Buddha?
(LS 16: 3.23)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 16, Section 3, Paragraph 23

Gautama Buddha

#34. He chanced to be in a lucid critical mood, and would not sympathize with exaltation.

E. M. Forster

#35. Falling out of balance doesn't matter, really and truly. How we deal with that moment and how we find our way back to center, every day, again and again - that is the practice of yoga ... it's about trusting that you will find your way.

Cyndi Lee

#36. Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.

Don Rickles

#37. You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.

James Nachtwey

#38. History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

Fernand Braudel