#cannon

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#better #between #cannon #capital #classes

In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made. ↗

— Gene Siskel

#ever #fact #i #ii #in fact

Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#drake #eddie #edgy #foolish #funny

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#artillery #bright #cannon #clear #could

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. ↗

— David Lloyd

#armed #armed men #cannon #cannot #chariot

I'll smith for you," Gendry went to one knee before Lord Beric. "If you'll have me, m'lord, I could be of use. I've made tools and knives and once I made a helmet that wasn't so bad. One of the Mountain's men stole it from me when we was taken." Arya bit her lip. He means to leave me too. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#love #ship-forever-shipping #love

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#cannon #else #hate #i #nothing

They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair. ↗

— Sally Rand

#bring #business #cannon #chicago #could