#rifle

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#curiosity #diverted #emulation #great #knowledge

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#blow #brains #come #cut #go

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#shows #treatment #trifles

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#character #guard #his #man #off

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care? ↗

— Al Sharpton

#carry #charlton #constitutional #constitutional right #grandma

The only real power comes out of a long rifle. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#long #only #out #power #real

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#fill #full #furniture #how #more

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#austere #constant #ever #government #learned

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#spiteful #trifle #would

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#company #how #however #matter #might