#grenade

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. ↗

— Yann Martel

#bullets #fashion #grenades #i #long

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is. ↗

— Pat Roberts

#full #grenades #hand #i #partisan

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#close #count #counts #grenades #only

People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade. ↗

— David Gower

#delivery #every #form #grenade #hand

I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#become #care #dive #education #expected

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#comfort #hand-grenade #shay #specials #uglies

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around. ↗

— Ralph Abernathy

#bring #even #gas #going #grenades

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time? ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#civil #civil war #could #go #grenades

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ↗

— John Leonard

#baseball #basketball #cumulative #football #game

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#child #diane #giving #grenade #hands