Famous quotes containing the words military, rifle and/or prone:
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp’s rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,—a Sharp’s rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Moon!
Moon!
I am prone before you.
Pity me,
And drench me in loneliness.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)