51 Flak Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous flak quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational flak quotes. Hopefully, these flak quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your flak knowledge!

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Famous Flak Quotes

Your crew is featherweight, my gunshots will make you levitate — Prodigy

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show. — Socrates

If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head. — G. Gordon Liddy

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. - Hank Ketcham

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. — Hank Ketcham

Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle. — Nas

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. — Josh Billings

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! - David Farragut

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! — David Farragut

Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you. Others tear you open and leave you in pieces. — Richard Kadrey

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back. — Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back. — Ellen Swallow Richards

Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision. — Jeff Cooper

It was the kind of light blow that is exchanged without notice or consequence hundreds of times in a game. — Ken Dryden

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. — Ernest Rutherford

The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish. — Manfred von Richthofen

If someone throws stones at you, throw back bread. — Filipino Proverbs

Short Flak Quotes

  • Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know. — Brett Hull
  • I do get flak for the lack of romance in my stories. — Eden Robinson
  • If you aren't getting flak, you aren't over the target. — Gifford Pinchot
  • The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target — Boyd K. Packer
  • I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama. — Fantasia Barrino
  • It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war. — Salman Rushdie

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More Flak Quotes

Joe Rogan is taking flak because he’s over the target. I support him for the same reason every other person who understands the relationship between a free exchange of ideas and liberty supports him. — Bret Weinstein

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead. — Juan Williams

In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls. — James Surowiecki

Donald Trump unveiled his immigration policy and now he's getting a lot of flak. His policy would have prevented his own grandfather from coming to America. That explains his new campaign slogan: 'Vote Trump to prevent another Trump.' — Conan O'Brien

Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate to rest than The Donald. Now he can get to focusing on the issues that matter. Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac? — Barack Obama

I get a lot of flak for it... people saying [my body] is not normal for a girl... But I'm okay with it. I think it's because I was a gymnast for eight years, from ages four to 12. My body was made before my bones were fully grown. Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses. — Pink

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals. — Donald Rumsfeld

I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different. — Barry Watson

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse. — Kate Adie

The children are designated as "Air Force aides of the Hitler youth" and wear military uniforms and become used to handling the anti-aircraft artillery flak guns. 15 and 16 year old children as warriors! If the war still continues to last for a long time, perhaps the babies will be also employed. Total war!! — Friedrich Kellner

Until everyone in this country over 35 has passed away, the theocracy will still be alive. And I am not actually of the theocracy, and that could bother people. I think I've probably taken a bit of flak for that, as well as being an arsehole occasionally, obviously. — Sinead O'Connor

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway. — Duane Michals

MYOB - mind your own body. It's important because I don't happen to have the kind of body that we usually see on television and in films. I am plus-size. I have dark skin. And I am 100 percent beautiful. But I get a lot of flak - oh, you should lose weight. And now that I have lost weight - and I lost weight for health reasons - I get, you look good but don't lose too much weight because your face is starting to sink in. — Gabourey Sidibe

Donald Trump is taking flak from the media, establishment republicans and all the democrats for merely stating the obvious and the truth: Vladimir Putin is much more of a leader than President Obama. — Ted Nugent

I did some embedded stuff. And if you are embedded, the only things you see are what the soldiers see, and if the people talk to you, they talk to you as if you are a soldier, because with your flak jacket and your helmet, they can't tell the difference between you and the soldier next to you, and they obviously won't tell you what they really think because they are afraid of you. — Yaroslav Trofimov

I'm a moderate and a centrist. That means I get flak from both sides. The upside is that I can vote for either party whenever I feel like it without any sense of obligation or betrayal. — Michael Totten

Miss America gets a lot of flak, but the reality is that it is uplifting and aspirational - 50% percent of my points were based on talent. — Gretchen Carlson

I get some flak for and some resistance from colleagues for because I'm interested in storytelling. I mean what I like about songwriting is songs used to tell a story. — Stephen Sondheim

I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone. — Richard Bach

Lots of people were giving me flak when I made the deal to do the very last season of Scrubs for $350,000 an episode. When really I'm the one that's being cheated, because the writer's strike is keeping me from all the money that I could be making. I need to eat, too. — Zach Braff

From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. — Randall Jarrell

I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K. Rowling, but the people - mainly from America's Bible Belt - who complain that Harry Potter promotes Satanism or witchcraft obviously haven't got enough in their lives. Meanwhile, I've been flying under the radar, saying things that are far more subversive than anything poor old Harry has said. My books are about killing God. — Philip Pullman

She can't afford to commit more troops,' Holly whispered. 'The gate is her priority, and she needs to have as many Berserkers watching her back as possible. We are secondary at this point.' 'That will be her undoing,' Artemis gasped, already suffering under the weight of the flak jacket. 'Artemis Fowl will never be secondary.' 'I thought you were Artemis Fowl the Second?' said Holly. — Eoin Colfer

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