"If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, Iâ€™d have been shooting them all my life."

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Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.135, Hachette UK

Amor Towles

#Gun Quotes #Shooting Quotes

“I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.”
“I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.”
“In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.”
“America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!”
“The will to be oneself is heroism”
“Our society is so obsessed with working out to be skinny, and none of that has a purpose. I love that my daughter sees me running because she knows I have a race and that I want to be faster. It becomes much less of a grind when its that way.”

Source : "Rules Of Engagement‘s Megyn Price Is A Triathlete". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2011.
“If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by starting MX missile deployment, then the Soviet Union will respond by deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile of the same class, with its characteristics in no way inferior to those of the MX.”

Source : "The Arms Control Reporter: A Chronicle of Treaties, Negotiations, Proposals" by Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (U.S.), (p. 57), 1982.

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