These missile quotes will inspire you. Missile is an object which is forcibly propelled at a target, either by hand or from a mechanical weapon.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging missile quotes, missile sayings, and missile proverbs.
Best Missile Quotes
- “If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.” ~ Lynda Barry
- “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “We have guided missiles and misguided men.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.” ~ E. P. Thompson
- “Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “I feel like a nuclear missile. Point me in that direction, I’ll go.” ~ George Dzundza
- “Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.” ~ Don Nickles
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“No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders.” ~ Barack Obama
- “The most used phrase in my administration, if I were to be President, would be ‘What the hell you mean we’re out of missiles?'” ~ Glenn Beck
- “We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.” ~ Mitt Romney
- “If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.” ~ Nhat Hanh
- “The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction – biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.” ~ Hans Blix
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“I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.” ~ David Dinkins
- “The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction – biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.” ~ Hans Blix
- “Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it’s fired by a guy who doesn’t make that in a year at a guy who doesn’t make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.” ~ Sebastian Junger
- “Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They’ll get a golf-clap from the chattering class over here and a you-go-girl from Red America. France could nuke an Algerian terrorist camp and the rest of the world would tut-tut for a day, then ask if the missiles France used were for sale. And of course the answer would be oui.” ~ James Lileks
- “The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.” ~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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“Iran is actively pursuing the development of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.” ~ Howard Berman
- “National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.” ~ Jacques Chirac
- “The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.” ~ Eldridge Cleaver
- “America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.” ~ Nancy Pelosi
- “Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, ‘Please, I used to pull the same trick. There’d be an intervention, I’d make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.'” ~ Bill Maher
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“One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.” ~ William J. Clinton
- “I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.” ~ Joe Lieberman
- “When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.” ~ George W. Bush
- “If you’re setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.” ~ Graham Nelson
- “The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.” ~ Lawrence Eagleburger
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“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.” ~ Uri Geller
- “In its report, the Cox Committee concludes that China is using stolen U.S. design information to speed up its deployment of a new nuclear missile force.” ~ Charles Bass
- “Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?” ~ Bianca Jagger
- “We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.” ~ Condoleezza Rice
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“We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly.” ~ Bill Maher
- “The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts – we have learned only recently how close we were to war – but I knew enough to make me tremble.” ~ Joseph Rotblat
- “We’ve gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be – to deploy a system that’ll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.” ~ Dick Cheney
- “At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo – slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture of outer space.” ~ Bernard Cooper
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“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime, which gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.” ~ Moshe Katsav
- “The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime, which gives financial support to terrorist organizations all over the world, denies the Holocaust, and calls for the wiping the state of Israel from the map, while developing long-range missiles and trying to obtain nuclear weapon.” ~ Moshe Katsav
- “Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.” ~ George Eliot
- “America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.” ~ Rudy Giuliani
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“…over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.” ~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- “Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.” ~ Shintaro Ishihara
- “The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.” ~ Abdul Kalam
- “Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“I will vote for the first candidate who promises to use nuclear missiles against LinkedIn.” ~ Dave Barry
- “The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is intrinsically linked to the development of vision machines. The aim, of course, is not only to give vision to a machine but, as in the case of the Cruise missiles that were aimed at Leningrad and Moscow, also to enable a machine to deploy radar readings and pre-programmed maps as it follows its course towards its target.” ~ Paul Virilio
- “The war in Yemen is not a war that we wanted. We had no other option – there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country. It was in possession of heavy weapons, ballistic missiles and even an air force. Should we stand by idly while this happens at our doorstep, in one of the countries in which al-Qaida has a huge presence? So we responded, as part of a coalition, at the request of the legitimate government of Yemen, and we stepped in to support them.” ~ Adel al-Jubeir
- “I mean Godzilla is eternally pissed off at everything but of course he’s gonna be because every time he pops out of the water for a look around somebody is firing a missile at him. Buddha would probably have to act as a mediator between the people and Godzilla.” ~ Brad Warner
- “I don’t think we replaced the Soviet Union with Al Qaida. I think we replaced, we should have, Soviet Union with the merger of globalization and the IT revolution. I think it’s that. That is the real challenge that we face today. Unlike the Soviet Union, it has no face, it has no missiles, but it is something that challenges every job, every city and every community.” ~ Thomas Friedman
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“We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.” ~ Mike Pence
- “We not only brought peace to many countries and people around the world, but we never dropped a bomb, we never launched a missile, and we never fired a bullet while I was in office. Yet we protected the interests of the American people in a peaceful, but strong way.” ~ Jimmy Carter
- “Some have become more critical than others; for example, the submarines. And that’s the Ohio Class submarine that needs to be modernized. The air component also needs to be modernized. The B-52, as someone earlier pointed out, is an outdated model that was flown by the grandparents of people that are flying it now. And we need a serious modernization program as well on our silo-launched missiles. All three are critical for the defense of the country.” ~ Marco Rubio
- “I know that some of those plans [of the North Korea] could very well lead to a missile that might reach Hawaii, if not the West Coast. We do have to try to get the countries in the region to work with us to do everything we can to confine, and constrain them.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “I will not speak to Vladimir Putin personally until we’ve rebuilt the 6th Fleet a little bit right under his nose; rebuilt the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose; and conducted a few military exercises in the Baltic states.” ~ Carly Fiorina
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“The greatest threat to extremism isn’t drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.” ~ Nicholas D. Kristof
- “European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet Union in that those missiles could reach the Soviet Union, make it vulnerable within five to six minutes, that it could surgical strikes, strikes into the military infrastructure and that a strike into the military infrastructure could cause in fact World War III, an atomic world war and that this could also be used for first strike, for surgical search, first strike into the Soviet Union.” ~ Petra Kelly
- “Russia is modernizing its nuclear systems. They’re moving toward more effective tactical nuclear systems. They’re moving toward delivery systems designed to evade anti-ballistic missile defenses. The Russians are investing, by the way, in robotic weapons, including a potential robotic tank. Their investment in new technology, I suspect, outweighs all of the European defense research and development spending combined.” ~ Newt Gingrich
- “Are we not concerned, for example, by the growing danger related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology? All of this poses a clear threat to the world, to the region. However, we have obvious points of convergence that are related to our interests.” ~ Vladimir Putin
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“You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of – there’s other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.” ~ Mike Rogers
- “The question is who threw chemicals on the same day on our soldiers. That’s the same question. Technically, not the soldiers. Soldiers don’t throw missiles on themselves. So, either the rebels, the terrorists, or a third party. We don’t have any clue yet.” ~ Bashar al-Assad
- “War is an extraordinary condition to be in – to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and behaving] as though you were merely processing credit card applications. [Instead,] the information you’re processing is that an incoming missile is 15 kilometers away, now 10 kilometers away, now 5 kilometers. You have to separate yourself psychologically from the fact that your mortal existence may well end. That is the ancient reality of war.” ~ George Friedman
- “I’m also a big Bob Dylan fan. The songs on The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – which is one of his best early albums – they grow out of some of his difficulties with Suze Rotolo, and “Hard Rain,” people say it had to do with the Cuban missile crisis – probably not. He denied it. I believe him, but it certainly had to do with the time.” ~ Cass Sunstein
