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It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

Chuck Palahniuk

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Theodore Roosevelt

They got a sniper rifle with a laser scope and when the targets would come out of a restaurant, they would put the red light on their chest and get various reactions.

Denny Griffin

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis

She was shot in the forehead. She was told to surrender but laid down a field of fire. She was killed protecting her patients and nurses, fending off the heavily armed U.S. Army with an old Chinese SKS single-shot rifle.

Fred Whitehurst

Because the National Rifle Association is opposed to it.

Jim Moran

Even when we did win, we were using a rifle against a club It's our sunburned minds. We need more Crocodile Dundees down here.

Ben Lexcen

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Joseph Stalin

He got an automatic rifle and pointed it straight at him, and he chastised him about how the British treated people. I thought John was going to die.

Macon Hawkins

Admitted before Judge Samuel D. Natal that he had a .22-caliber rifle when he and two co-defendants went out at approximately 3 a.m. on July 6 with the intention of 'hijacking a car.' .

Vincent P. Sarubbi

The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.

Eddie Izzard

We are performing at our best and at just the right time. We are hosting the GARC (Great America Rifle Conference) Championships in two weeks, and that gives us another opportunity to compete with the best rifle programs in the country before hopefully going to the NCAA Championships.

Valerie Boothe

Bring an elk rifle on an elk hunt, ... A .270 (caliber) is not an adequate elk rifle. Of all the elk that my clients have shot and not recovered, most were hit in the vitals with a .270. The minimum caliber for elk is a .30-06.

Gary Hubbell

It's good to have a rifle range like this, because a lot of people go out into the woods and shoot and not everybody's conscious of where they're firing at, where the roads are and things like that.

Joe Johnson

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

John Tate

I don't think they have an answer. They worked really hard the next day and he shot fine and there was nothing wrong with his rifle.

James Upham

People wander all over. They can drop over a hill and, boom, they're right in a rifle range.

Jim Swanson

Kenny had a big interception. We gave Rifle great field position after our interception, but Kenny came up with a big interception to stop Rifle.

John Ramunno

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

There's just rules to what you're doing. No matter what's happening, you need to be aware, and if you lose that awareness, you shouldn't have a rifle in your hand.

Jay Hakkinen

All we know is he's heavily armed; he's got at least some handguns and possibly a rifle.

Kevin Beary

I just jumped for it like I've done a million times. ... It was like I was shot in the back of my knee with a rifle.

Darren Fenster

During the (National Rifle Association) convention, Charlton Heston held a musket over his head and declared, 'From my cold dead hands,'.

Troy Brown

The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle!

John J. Pershing

(Moffat) played really well. They are usually at about 290. Rifle had two girls in the low 90s.

Joanie Ewing

Anyone that's been over here at least once, ... realizes that the way out is not by shooting a rifle. You have to build your way out. We have to help build institutions. We have to help build communities. It's the only way.

Scott Walton

Rifle is a good program, and they know how to win. With their new offense they are a hard team to scout.

Kip Hafey

I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

Jack Kirby

We had to crawl across their field not on your hands and knees, but on your stomach, cradling a rifle.

Robert Prince

It's bigger and better than last year. We have more room. We have a grant from (the Oregon Hunters Association) for $1,700 to improve one of the ranges so we can put another line of air-rifle shooters on that.

Chris Culp

[In] Shooting Dad, ... There were years and years when he hid out by himself in the garage making rifle barrels and I holed up in my room reading Allen Ginsberg poems, and we were incapable of having a conversation that didn't end in an argument.

Sarah Vowell

In our management plan we have the canoe, and support boats, and each support boat will be armed with harpoons and the rifle to dispatch the whale most efficiently.

Keith Johnson

That stuff happens. I've been around since '97 and I've seen the best do it, they've missed five. When you miss five, you put your rifle on your back and you go ski your loops and you push harder. That's all you can do.

Jeremy Teela

This man, the defendant, picked up his hunting rifle, got the bullets, loaded it and pointed it at his own flesh and blood. He still had a chance to back out. But he didn't. Instead, he pulled the trigger and shot her in her cheek, in her face. Nobody deserves that, especially an innocent child.

Memarie Dhillon

He's looking at this magnificent beast that he's followed across Africa and he starts crying. He just put the rifle down and walked away.

Scott Fraser

For some folks, it will affect them as far as where they get their deer rifle or shotgun.

Gregg Patterson

In Washington, officials from the National Rifle Association met with a group of high school students. There were no survivors.

Tina Fey

All the matches we had, we won head to head except against Manitou, and they beat us pretty good. We are trying to get everyone healthy for Rifle (on Thursday) and possibly Valley this weekend.

Sean Mccarthy

This is a stock picker's market. I call them 'rifle shots,' at good businesses.

Chris Bonavico

I think it was just as valuable as someone out there with a rifle in their hand.

Neal Cummings

Everything that was happening was good for our team. The kids came through with some good situational hitting. We ran the bases very, very well in that inning and (Rifle) made some mistakes and we were able to capitalize on them.

Eric Nieslanik

And the National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, people do,' but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, "Bang!" That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that….

Eddie Izzard

In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK [-47 assault rifle].

Eddie Griffin