Hollow Point Bullet

Famous quotes containing the words hollow, point and/or bullet:

    “In the hollow Lotos land to live and lie reclined
    On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

    “Consider his life which was valueless
    In terms of employment, hotel ledgers, news files.
    Consider. One bullet in ten thousand kills a man.
    Ask. Was so much expenditure justified
    On the death of one so young and so silly
    Lying under the olive tree, O world, O death?”
    —Stephen Spender (1909–1995)