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Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. -- Frank Robinson
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. -- John Leonard
I wouldn't mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy. -- Stephen Bayley
It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. -- Yann Martel
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is. -- Pat Roberts
I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time? -- Nadine Labaki
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around. -- Ralph Abernathy
Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? -- Alva Myrdal
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars. -- Janine di Giovanni
I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?' -- Simon Hoggart
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. -- Neil Gaiman
Almost only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes. -- Karen Marie Moning
You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever. -- Rachel Caine
Grudges are like hand grenades: it is wise to release them before they destroy you. -- Barbara Johnson
Zircoff," I said, "put the tomatoes away." "Piss," he said, "I wish they were hand grenades. -- Charles Bukowski
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. -- Paul Fussell
Well, that's not something you see every day. Go tell your father that Grandma needs the grenades. -- Mira Grant
Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan) -- Bill Shankly
'Cyberwar' has nothing to do with the destruction brought about by bombs and grenades and so on. -- Paul Virilio
Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come -- Mario Puzo
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth. -- George Carey
Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades. -- Rick Riordan
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. -- Erich Maria Remarque
That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become. -- Scott Westerfeld
My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully. -- Elizabeth Warren
They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it. -- Ann Brashares
Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown -- Mira Grant
Luis Bunuel's two semishort surrealist hand grenades (cowritten in varying degrees with Salvador Dali) make a double bill that can restore your faith in the subversions of youth. Pure Spanish-Parisian piss and vinegar. -- Luis Bunuel

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