Revolver Quotes

• Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver

  Hermann Goring

  Culture, Goering, Gun Culture

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• Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Gun, Night, Relax

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.57, House of Stratus

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• Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Music, Humorous

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• It was suicide. Others killed themselves with poison or with a revolver. I killed myself with minutes and hours.

  Henri Barbusse

  Suicide, Poison, Hours

  Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.44, 1st World Publishing

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• I've asked our people, "Why don't we just put a revolver on top of our basic loan?" Make it easier for the client.

  Jamie Dimon

  People, Clients, Loan

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• When I hear the word 'culture,' I get out my revolver.

  Hanns Johst

  Culture

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• The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

  Julius Caesar

  Enemy, Looks, Lasts

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• Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

  Buffalo Bill

  Brain, Lightning, Bills

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.128, U of Nebraska Press

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• If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

  Guy Ritchie

  Art, Martial Arts, Ifs

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• There is something about yourself that you don't know.

  Jason Statham

  About Yourself, Knows

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• My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Army, Thinking

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• Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.

  Lucy Parsons

  War, Dirty, Knives

  "What’s Missing From Black History Month" by Jon Hochschartner, theredphoenixapl.org. February 10, 2012.

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• There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Peace, Military, War

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1513.

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• It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.

  Edward Abbey

  Feet, Long, Support

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.

  Jim Butcher

  Pockets, Cracks, Bulls

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.131, Penguin

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• We still wading in the water...
  Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water.
  Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father,
  Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver.
  Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler,
  Tell 'em talk is cheap...niggas living for the dollar.

  Vince Staples

  Father, Rap, Play

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• I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

  Mark Twain

  Gun, World, Innocent

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2006). “Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews”, p.237, University of Alabama Press

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• When we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers.

  Pat Buchanan

  Order, Safety, Phrases

  "On a Right Wing and a Player" by Peter Carlson, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2002.

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• Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

  Ian Fleming

  Pockets, Resignation

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”, Cape. J.

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• I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides, poisons are neat and clean and really exciting... I do not think I could look a really ghastly mangled body in the face. It is the means that I am interested in. I do not usually describe the end, which is often a corpse.

  Agatha Christie

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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• Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

  Tom Robbins

  Evil, Standards, Dangerous

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.349, Bantam

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• It's got big riffs and really it's a rock and roll album. I think Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans will relate to that

  Scott Weiland

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I wouldn’t like to meet you when you’ve got a revolver,” said Margarita with a coquettish look at Azazello. She had a passion for people who did things well.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Passion, People, Looks

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• The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

  Andre Breton

  Beautiful, Facts, Obscure

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• Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troublesome to preserve them so as to have them easy of access; but when they do want them, they want them badly.

  John Shaw Billings

  Science, Men, Use

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