Shoot Yourself In The Foot Quotes

#1. It's one thing to shoot yourself in the foot. Just don't reload the gun.

Lindsey Graham

#2. You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot with too much irony. You need the audience to invest in the fun and the warmth and generally care about the characters.

Shawn Levy

#3. C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#4. Every time you say it is impossible, you shoot yourself in the foot

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#5. You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?

William Shatner

#6. We're at the crossroads, ... where we need to win to stay alive.

Randy Johnson

#7. We need to emphasize Christ's saving acts. Whenever we don't focus on them, we shoot ourselves in the foot.

Mark J. Cares

#8. Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Katharine Hepburn

#9. I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot.

Harold Prince

#10. Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus' love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart.

F.F. Bruce

#11. College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.

Oscar Robertson

#12. What will maintain the pinnacle position of our nation in the world: the ability to shoot a 25-foot jump shot, or the ability to solve a quadratic equation?

Ben Carson

#13. He falls in love because he doesnt want to.

Gwen Calvo

#14. As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway.

Megan Whalen Turner

#15. I don't want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

Sherman Douglas

#16. Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#17. Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.

Thomas Merton

#18. I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

Valerie June

#19. ("Shoot him in the foot," Mr. Persichetti would tell Mr. Keane, years later, when Tony had already returned from the war and Jacob had drawn a bad number. "Break his legs before you let him go.")

Alice McDermott

#20. Permission Marketing Is Anticipated, Personal, Relevant

Seth Godin

#21. Shoot the pasties off the nipples of a ten-foot bull-dyke and win a cotton-candy goat.

Hunter S. Thompson

#22. I could shoot you in the foot."
"Please do. At least then I wouldn't have to endure this sock humiliation any longer.

Lisa Kessler

#23. People who have committed to a service/advocacy role will tell you that some of the sublimest pleasure they have ever experienced comes in the context of that work. You get way more than you give.

Charles Garfield

#24. The next person who attempts to shoot, stab, strangle, maim, maul, or manipulate me in any way, shape, or form is going to have one fuck of a hissy fit to deal with!" he shouted angrily and actually stomped his foot in the process. "That goes for you too!" he shouted at Gray as an afterthought.

Abigail Roux

#25. An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

Irving Stone

#26. An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.

Tim O'Reilly

#27. These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#28. I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

Lindsay Pearce

#29. tyrants always set about shaping history after their liking.

Douglas Bond

#30. What she can't get into her narrow mind is that we're above such things as love. Our whole aim - the whole sense of our life - is to avoid petty illusions that stop us being free and happy. On, on, on!

Anton Chekhov

#31. I typically shoot underwater with my regular camera in an underwater housing, and then I usually have two big strobes that I use to light. But with whales, you're not going to be able to really light a 45-foot subject. Your strobes are only effective for maybe five or six feet underwater.

Brian Skerry

#32. Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

Phyllis Diller

#33. I'm a woman and a lesbian and a feminist and a Jew and so many other things, and those identities are a source of pride and strength for me.

Sally Kohn