At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention.
David Rieff
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(When asked in 1992 where they would be in years time)Billie Joe: I'm going to point a gun at Tré, ...
GREEN DAY Armed intervention is always a decision for the proper authorities and not for private companies suc...
CAROLINE WITTGEN And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him...
BIBLE (When asked in 1992 where they would be in years time)
Billie Joe: I'm going to point a gun...
GREEN DAY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Five men armed with handguns held up four security guards at the licensing department around 22:00 o...
INSPECTOR LUCAS SITHOLE Don't point your f -- gun at me!
CHRIS WHITE They turned this into a criminal case, and now they don't know how to resolve it. I'm afraid we need...
ANCLE HSU When faith is compromised at gun-point life becomes unbearable
ETC WANYANWU You're probably behind that gun for 10 seconds. But that's the whole point of a machine gun.
MICHAEL MORRISSEY But at some point you've got to put the gun on the table.
WILLARD HOLMES As a practical matter ... we don't believe that the dispatch of armed U.N. peacekeepers before Augus...
JAMES FOLEY Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, ... There is no ...
CHRIS PATTEN Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?
DAVID WONG Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I think a lot of people are at the point of losing faith in the Democratic Party and in the two-part...
DR. WILLIE LEGETTE This will put the focus on prevention, talking about early warning before armed intervention is nece...
ALLAN ROCK Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt. -David Bower.
DAVID BOWER All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت...
مليكة مستظرف Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE I have no doubt that he's well intended. I have no doubt that he's honest. I have no doubt that he m...
DAVID RIEFF You cannot make one invent at gun point. Forget the movies, and think about pampering inventors, not...
KALYAN C. KANKANALA I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST I approached the vehicle and saw a gun in his hand, ... I asked him to drop the weapon and at that p...
JOE HOWELL One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a...
HENRY ROLLINS Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN Once this is adopted, it would be difficult for the Security Council to turn the other way and to on...
MARK SCHNEIDER Hospital is a passage in most of our lives at some point. One of our democratic rights is to get a b...
INGAR DRAGSET He pulled out (a) gun and points it at her. Quite frankly, from that point on, this young woman is s...
CAROL COBB We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We support democratic changes (in Macedonia) so that all citizens be equal. But we do not support ar...
HASHIM THACI You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. Never in my wildest dreams did I think we'd have a twenty-point lead at the half.
DICK CORN What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets we...
SLAVOJ ZIZEK Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a...
JEAN GENET Obviously that's very disturbing that robber would not just point a gun at someone, but actually hav...
DEBORAH MCCARLEY The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.
MARK MCKINNON We're having some pretty intense gun battles breaking out around the city. Armed gangs of from eight...
JEFF WINN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES He was a very good person and never carried a gun. He was a very good brother. How can it be self-de...
JUAN GUTIERREZ Neighbors were calling in that a female, a white female, had been shot and that the subject was arme...
DETECTIVE ALVARO ZABALETA It could change, but at this point Democrat dreams of corruption being a central theme are not there...
GLEN BOLGER You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS A lot of us were kept out of the loop, and maybe the process could've been a little more democratic....
BRAD STUART Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy...
LOUIE ANDRUS Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
DAVID OGILVY Radical groups can become legitimate political players in the democratic process if they accept core...
TZIPI LIVNI I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I tho...
GRAHAM NASH If you get to the point in your career where you're running with a gun - I've yet to run wit...
DAVID COSTABILE Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democ...
CORNEL WEST Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launche...
JOHN PAUL JONES Couldn't you have poked her with the gun or point the gun in her direction or fire a warning shot? ....
ANDREW BENSON When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to w...
AZAR NAFISI Înţelege tot. Eu îl insult şi el mă urăşte. Sau invers" rîdea el.
GIOVANNI ARPINO Mai tii minte cat visai? Mai visezi?
GIOVANNI ARPINO I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed...
ROBERT MUGABE At the moment, when we do an intervention we do a small intervention and when we're done, we pull ou...
CATHY NONAS Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. at the price of equal representation and democratic structure.
ALBERTO FUJIMORI Experts understand dreams from science point of view.
Some believe in dreams, some don't even care.
...
TOBA BETA The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you...
TED NUGENT The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful -...
SARAH J. MAAS Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Who would i be today if i did not learn the lessons that life gives, to have the strength against al...
GARY F EVANS... During the early hours of this morning, six armed men went into the house of a Democratic Republic o...
INSPECTOR PAUL RAMALOKO Often dream creates imageries based on your emotional inclination.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Lie you easy, dream you light,
And sleep you fast for aye;
And luckier may you find the ni...
A.E. HOUSMAN I'm an idiot like you said, so whatever you say about me doesn't matter, but you know... Don't you d...
KAZUE KATO I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.
NEIL GAIMAN We had a bow and arrow at 6 and a BB gun at 7.
TRACY BARNES Life is a journey through a foreign land.
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LARRY DAVID I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
LARRY DAVID When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these ...
LARRY DAVID My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.
LARRY DAVID I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, ...
LARRY DAVID It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
LARRY DAVID In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as ser...
LARRY DAVID I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
LARRY DAVID If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
LARRY DAVID Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's lik...
LARRY DAVID I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
LARRY DAVID Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting f...
LARRY DAVID I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
LARRY DAVID I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
LARRY DAVID Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.
DAVID PERLMUTTER We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of pre...
DAVID AGUS Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.
DAVID RUDISHA Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the po...
DAVID BLUNKETT The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.
DAVID NOVAK I have been growing this moustache, a budding Burt Reynolds number, for a good cause known as Movemb...
DAVID SAX