He held it up and six bullets fell out. He said, 'I can't use these because these are police issue. And he reached into his pocket and said, 'but I can use this one,' and he put it into the chamber.
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EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! - Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat... EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight. EDWARD YOUNG Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone a... EDWARD HOAGLAND Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. EDWARD COKE Virtue alone has majesty in death. EDWARD YOUNG Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:Who does the best his circumstance allowsDoes well, acts nobly... EDWARD YOUNG Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. EDWARD YOUNG The man of wisdom is the man of years. EDWARD YOUNG Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew
She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. EDWARD YOUNG Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel. EDWARD YOUNG One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousa... EDWARD YOUNG Think nought a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
... EDWARD YOUNG To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 ... EDWARD WALKER As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and str... EDWARD WITTEN I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case ... JOHN EDWARD The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back ... EDWARD FITZGERALD Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called... EDWARD KENNEDY It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori... EDWARD KENNEDY The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and... EDWARD BACH The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as... EDWARD GIBBON The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass... EDWARD ZWICK Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have... EDWARD ZWICK It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes. EDWARD LEAR What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. EDWARD LANGLEY We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick...... EDWARD HEATH I come like Water, and like Wind I go. EDWARD FITZGERALD I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villa... EDWARD ZWICK The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. EDWARD YOUNG A man of pleasure is a man of pains. EDWARD YOUNG When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair. EDWARD YOUNG My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. EDWARD GIBBON Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. EDWARD GIBBON Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whate... EDWARD YOUNG I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. EDWARD MOORE To leave a sting within a brother's heart. EDWARD YOUNG What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan... EDWARD ABBEY Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he cam... EDWARD NORMAN Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. EDWARD YOUNG And love is love, in beggars and in kings. EDWARD DYER The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expressi... EDWARD ABBEY I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. EDWARD RICKENBACKER You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared ... EDWARD FLAHERTY God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe... EDWARD EVERETT For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,Nor take her tea without a stratagem. EDWARD YOUNG The children are innocent until proven guilty. For their sake, not ours, we must soldier on, muddlin... EDWARD ABBEY كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از... EDWARD SAID You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there h... EDWARD SAID In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its orig... EDWARD EVERETT A God all mercy is a God unjust. EDWARD YOUNG Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind thei... EDWARD VARESE It was scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the ... EDWARD GIBBON Can't I another's face commend,
Or to her virtues be a friend,
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Analyze it carefully. Then put what you... EDWARD COCKER The art of creation is older than the art of killing. EDWARD KOCH If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. EDWARD KOCH You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:... EDWARD ABBEY For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress. EDWARD ABBEY Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha... EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination EDWARD ABBEY That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i... EDWARD ABBEY High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a... EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te... EDWARD ABBEY Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i... EDWARD BELLAMY For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope... EDWARD MORRIS I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ... EDWARD ABBEY And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. EDWARD LEAR When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk... EDWARD TELLER Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is. EDWARD KENNEDY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. EDWARD ABBEY One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ... EDWARD ABBEY The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. EDWARD GIBBON Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ... EDWARD HOAGLAND One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag... EDWARD DAHLBERG The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit... EDWARD DAHLBERG Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings. EDWARD GARDNER Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. EDWARD DAHLBERG There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde... EDWARD DAHLBERG Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. 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EDWARD DYSON Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis... EDWARD DAHLBERG When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u... EDWARD TELLER Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life. EDWARD EDWARDS The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. EDWARD GIBBON Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. EDWARD GIBBON Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b... EDWARD DAHLBERG To write is a humiliation. EDWARD DAHLBERG What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden... EDWARD DAHLBERG Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. EDWARD DAHLBERG The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ... EDWARD BLISHEN By night an atheist half believes in God. EDWARD YOUNG You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. EDWARD KOCH Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h... EDWARD DAHLBERG Our birth is nothing but our death begun. EDWARD YOUNG If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po... EDWARD RICKENBACKER Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders... EDWARD HOAGLAND You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ... EDWARD STEICHEN I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. EDWARD DAHLBERG We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. 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EDWARD GIBBON Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is... EDWARD DAHLBERG It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, a... EDWARD DAHLBERG Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspire... EDWARD DAHLBERG Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enig... EDWARD DAHLBERG Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. EDWARD DOWDEN The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right. EDWARD SIMMONS The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. EDWARD GIBBON If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem. EDWARD GARDNER All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. EDWARD GIBBON