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Rifles Quotes - Page 3

Some people fast, some people go on a cruise or visit a day spa. I get out in the woods with a rifle or a bow. That's my release.

"Q&A: Chris Pratt Talks Hunting, Tanning, and Squirrels". "Outdoor Life" Interview, www.outdoorlife.com. February 6, 2012.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Arthur Conan Doyle (2005). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (Slipcased Edition)”, p.92, W. W. Norton & Company

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Anne Applebaum (2007). “The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation”, Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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

"Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens" edited by Holly Stevens, (Ch. 9), 1977.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1862). “The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt”, p.31, London : Smith, Elder

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

"The Continuing Sagas of George Clooney & Bill Moyers". "The Talking Points Memo" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2003.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations”, p.70

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks