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When you're struggling, you almost have a shotgun approach, and you're trying to hit a wide pattern and see what brings speed, when you unload off the truck and you're fast, you get much more into like a rifle scenario and you're very precise with the changes you make, and there's a lot of speed in the details. – Jimmie Johnson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The Galil ACE is actually a modernized Galil assault rifle, we made it efficient and much more relevant for today’s modern warfare. Today’s modern battlefield includes [close quarter battle]. You need to be faster than the enemy. You need to be more efficient. You need to be accurate. That’s what you have in this rifle. – Hagai Katz	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The rifle, exposed for all those years to sun, wind, snow and rain, was found leaning against a tree in Great Basin National Park. – Nichole Andler	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
And I was like, ‘Why?’ And they are like, ‘Because there’s a gun in it,’ And I’m like, ‘But it’s a hunting rifle. I’m wearing camo. I have my dog with me,’ i was ready to cry. I didn’t know what I was going to do. The only thing I thought to do was address it. – Rebekah Rorick	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Our troops had ran into him while on patrol in the area, we recovered a rifle and a handgun near the area where we found the boy. – Ibrahim Patrasa	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I want her to have as much success as she possibly can, if all that ever comes out of this is that she gets a scholarship to a college with a rifle team. – Dan Roberts	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hand but a rifle in your fist – Emiliano Zapata	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. – Booker T. Washington	added by anonymous 10 years ago
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. – Rudyard Kipling	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. – James Nicoll	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The only real power comes out of a long rifle. – Joseph Stalin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. – Brendan Francis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. – P. J. O'Rourke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The National Rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world. – Cecil Andrus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self – Christa Wolf	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago

When you're struggling, you almost have a shotgun approach, and you're trying to hit a wide pattern and see what brings speed, when you unload off the truck and you're fast, you get much more into like a rifle scenario and you're very precise with the changes you make, and there's a lot of speed in the details.

– Jimmie Johnson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Galil ACE is actually a modernized Galil assault rifle, we made it efficient and much more relevant for today’s modern warfare. Today’s modern battlefield includes [close quarter battle]. You need to be faster than the enemy. You need to be more efficient. You need to be accurate. That’s what you have in this rifle.

– Hagai Katz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The rifle, exposed for all those years to sun, wind, snow and rain, was found leaning against a tree in Great Basin National Park.

– Nichole Andler

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

And I was like, ‘Why?’ And they are like, ‘Because there’s a gun in it,’ And I’m like, ‘But it’s a hunting rifle. I’m wearing camo. I have my dog with me,’ i was ready to cry. I didn’t know what I was going to do. The only thing I thought to do was address it.

– Rebekah Rorick

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Our troops had ran into him while on patrol in the area, we recovered a rifle and a handgun near the area where we found the boy.

– Ibrahim Patrasa

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I want her to have as much success as she possibly can, if all that ever comes out of this is that she gets a scholarship to a college with a rifle team.

– Dan Roberts

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hand but a rifle in your fist

– Emiliano Zapata

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

– Booker T. Washington

added by anonymous
10 years ago

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

– Rudyard Kipling

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

– James Nicoll

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

– Joseph Stalin

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

– Theodore Roosevelt

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

– Brendan Francis