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Quotes About Revolvers

The law of chaos is the law of ideas, Of improvisations and seasons of belief. Ideas are men. The mass of meaning and The mass of men are one. Chaos is not The mass of meaning. It is three or four Ideas, or, say, five men or, possibly, six. In the end, these philosophic assassins pull Revolvers and shoot each other. One remains. The mass of meaning becomes composed again.
~ Wallace Stevens
It's only in books people carry revolvers around as a matter of course.
~ Agatha Christie
Hunt game? With pearl-handled revolvers?" I asked, incredulous. "Isn't that a bit…I dunno…fancy? Do I just run out into the forest with my pearl-handled revolvers, or do I invite some deer to a cocktail party and then gun them down?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
We were mugged by some senior citizens on the way from the chopper to the main gate, but no great harm done; they were using vintage revolvers.
~ Alfred Bester
The songs were there before the band was there, and it's my songs. And it's like, we're not in the 1950s. We can't call ourselves, like, 'The Revolvers' - it just doesn't work that way. And 'The Lukas Graham Band' just sounded wrong.
~ Lukas Forchhammer
Goodness knows what the world is coming to when park rangers carry service revolvers.
~ Bill Bryson
Son, only a pimp in a Louisiana whore- house carries pearl-handled revolvers. These are ivory.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
The old man opened his hands and closed them again. A gesture of accommodation. Not quite a blessing. He nodded toward the glass case where half a dozen old Colt revolvers lay displayed, some nickelplated, some with grips of staghorn. One with old worn grips of guttapercha, one with the front sight filed away. All of them belonged to somebody's grandfather, he said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Leftists bruit about statistics on accidents where children are killed with revolvers. But these data are wildly exaggerated by including the shooting deaths of young, teenaged gang-bangers, whose deaths are certainly purposeful.
~ Walter Block
Collins did not merely weigh up the reaction to the subsequent death from wounds of the unfortunate Smith; he analysed the reasons why the detective 'kept running', and from then on the Squad was armed not with .38 but .45 revolvers.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
Houses were never sanctuaries. The Gestapo often conducted their arrests between midnight and five in the morning. It appeared that at any instant the door could open, allowing a cold breath of night air to blow in, and three friendly Germans with revolvers.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.
~ Lord Dunsany