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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
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
Almost only counts in hand grenades and horseshoes. -- Karen Marie Moning
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
Just go out and drop a few hand grenades all over the place, son. (to Kevin Keegan) -- Bill Shankly
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth. -- George Carey
That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become. -- Scott Westerfeld
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
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
Short fiction seems more targeted - hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them. Long fiction feels more like atmosphere: it's a lot smokier and less defined. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
Over the past 30 years, hand grenades, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, helicopters and assault rifles have replaced traditional floral patterns in rug making and other textiles. Depicting these realities of war has helped the Afghan people to survive during times of conflict. -- Henri Cole
If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed. -- Evadne Price
This story never really had a point. It's just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters. -- Pete Wentz
Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades. -- Neil Gaiman
Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. -- Norman Mailer
For the critic, the word 'best' is like a grenade without a pin: Toss it around too freely, and you're likely to get your hand blown off. -- Terry Teachout
People are talking of his susceptibility to the rising delivery, but let me tell you that when you are out of form, every ball looks like a hand grenade. -- David Gower
The success of 'The Celebration' was like a hand grenade exploding in my face. It suddenly gave me so many opportunities to explore things I had never done before. -- Thomas Vinterberg
I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody. -- Joe Jamail
He was carrying bulky loot; I could see it under his zipped-up sweater. And when I unzipped it with a one-handed rip, I saw that he was wearing a bandolier loaded with grenades. I have no doubt that a wide, manic smile spread across my pretty little face. -- Cherie Priest
Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come -- Mario Puzo
Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. -- Erich Maria Remarque

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