Every man is what environment and heredity make him. - Alistair MacLean's Death Train

The motorcycle patrol's decision to elect for discretion in lieu of suicidal valour was as immediate as it was automatic.

The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. ... It is the oldest hand-gun in the world, without question the most famous and, if efficiency in its designated task of maiming and killing be taken as criterion of its worth, then it is also probably the best hand-gun ever made.

When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.