Rifle Prone Position

Famous quotes containing the words rifle, prone and/or position:

    “Many times man lives and dies
    Betweeen his two eternities,
    That of race and that of soul,
    And ancient Ireland knew it all.
    Whether man die in his bed
    Or the rifle knocks him dead,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    “To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.”
    —Georges Bataille (1897–1962)