Quotes About Wyatt Earp

#1. The Summa Theologiae is not, as is sometimes supposed, a potpourri of theology and philosophy; it is wholly a Summa of Theology concerned with the Sacra Doctrina, the Holy Teaching of salvation given by God's revelation.

Brian Davies

#2. You can't explain grace, anyway, especially when it arrives almost despite yourself. I didn't even ask for it, yet somehow it breached and began to work.

Leif Enger

#3. I don't smoke pot. I never liked it.

Kirstie Alley

#4. That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.

Wyatt Earp

#5. Nothing counts so much as family, the rest are just strangers. (as Nicholas Earpp in Wyatt Earp, 1994)

Gene Hackman

#6. It was a quiet day in Tombstone.

Larry McMurtry

#7. Fast is fine, but accuracy is final.

Wyatt Earp

#8. Sadie was at his side when the old desire to leave everything behind rose up in him again.
"Suppose . . ." he began. "Suppose . . ."
Then he moved on, one last time.

Mary Doria Russell

#9. I think you're right, Wyatt. I can't see a God damn thing.

Morgan Earp

#10. Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.

Wyatt Earp

#11. But surely it is the gist that matters; I am, after all, telling you a history, and in history, as I suspect you - an American - will agree, it is the thrust of one's narrative that counts, not the accuracy of one's details.

Mohsin Hamid

#12. Destiny is that which we are drawn towards and Fate is that which we run into.

Wyatt Earp

#13. My name is Wyatt Earp! It all ends now!

Wyatt Earp

#14. No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

Pat Buchanan

#15. So I've come to the conclusion that it is thus my own fault when these people I have been talking about finally stop saying "Ah" and tell me it's a pity I always do such odd things.

Barbara Wright

#16. Accept 'what is' they say. What if I don't want to?
- Juliette Power

Juliette Power

#17. The most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.

Wyatt Earp

#18. Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

Wyatt Earp

#19. No wise man ever took a handgun to a gun fight.

Wyatt Earp

#20. Henpecked, the great Wyatt Earp," Cody said.
"You evidently don't know Jessie," Wyatt said. "If she's in one of her tempers she'd put a hyena to flight ...

Larry McMurtry

#21. Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

Paul Ryan