cannon Quotes and Quotations
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cannon Quotes and Quotations
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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 | top
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. Napoleon Bonaparte | top
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I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. Lenny Bruce | top
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The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon. Russ Carnahan | top
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Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love. Steven Cojocaru | top
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A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. James Harrington | top
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Oliver Wendell Holmes | top
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I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point. Monica Keena | top
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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 | top
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Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. Fritz Kreisler | top
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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 | top
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons. Mao Tse-Tung | top
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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine. Dwight L. Moody | top
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But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here. Knute Nelson | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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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 | top
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In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made. Gene Siskel | top
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Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache. Lee Tergesen | top
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If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. Helen Thomas | top
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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. Charles V | top
