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  • I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.

  • The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep

    Fall   Night   Fog  
    T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.7, Faber & Faber
  • Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn)

    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.144, Macmillan
  • She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions.

    Horse   Hands   Special  
  • Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

    Climbing   Iron   Mind  
  • We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.

    Sleep   Next Day   Giving  
    Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.56, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.

    Gun   Soldier   Muzzle  
    "199 Days: The Battle for Stalingrad". Book by Edwin Palmer Hoyt, p. 142, 1999.
  • You can say 'stop' or 'alto' or use any other word you think will work but I've found that a large bore muzzle pointed at someone's head is pretty much the universal language.

    Gun   Thinking   Muzzle  
  • Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!

    Stars   Axes   Blue  
  • The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

    Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.441, Psychology Press
  • Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

    Gun   Government   Muzzle  
  • As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart.

    Heart   Muzzle   Mouths  
    Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.152, University of Michigan Press
  • Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

    Running   Mean   Gun  
    Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.73, Penguin
  • A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.

    George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.28, Lulu.com
  • Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart. These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

    Goodbye   Dog   Morning  
  • As long as I look into the muzzles, nothing can happen to me. Only if he pulls lead am I in danger.

    Long   Muzzle   Looks  
  • IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such hunted creatures. Even as Republicans try to wrestle women into chastity belts, the Vatican is trying to muzzle American nuns.

    Trying   Muzzle   Looks  
    "Bishops Play Church Queens as Pawns" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2012.
  • Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

    Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.45
  • I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

    Funny   Beach   Lying  
  • Muzzle control has to be a religion. You cannot point that weapon at one of your brothers-or yourself. Know where you barrel is at all times, and know the condition of your weapon-loaded or unloaded, bolt forward or to the rear, round in the chamber or not, safety on or off. Keep your finger off the trigger unless you're going to kill something.

    Brother   Safety   Muzzle  
    Dick Couch (2007). “Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior”, p.177, Three Rivers Press
  • True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

    Leadership   Home   Long  
    First Speech Before the United Nations General Assembly (64th Session), delivered 23 September 2009, New York, NY
  • I don't have to muzzle myself when I'm a civilian. When you're a governor, you kind of have to do it, because you represent the whole state. You have to leave your personal opinions to yourself a lot. I learned that.

  • When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

    Truth   Fear   Liars  
    George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.220, Bantam
  • A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

    Dream   Wall   Eye  
    Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.127, Lulu.com
  • [Fireheart] was interrupted by a screech from Cloudtail. "Fireheart! Fireheart, Brightpaw isn't dead!" Fireheart spun around and raced across the clearing to crouch beside Brightpaw. Her white-and-ginger fur, which, she had always kept so neatly groomed, was spiky with drying blood. On one side of her face the fur was torn away, and there was blood where her eye should have been. One ear had been shredded, and there were huge claw marks scored across her muzzle.

    Eye   Blood   Should Have  
  • Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.

    Dog   Hands   Soul  
    Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.12, Pan Macmillan
  • When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.

  • It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

    Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London
  • Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

    Funny   Dog   Muzzle  
    Malcolm Lowry, Sherrill Grace (1995). “Sursum corda!”
  • O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

    Death   Struggle   Gun  
    Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.51, Haskell House Pub Limited
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