Killing Quotes - Page 30

• You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

  Chris d'Lacey

  Evil, Monk, Easier

  Chris d'Lacey (2011). “Fire Star”, p.340, Scholastic Inc.

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• For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.

  Homer

  Dog, Home, Men

  Homer, Robert Fitzgerald (1961). “The Odyssey”, Anchor Books

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• I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Running, Loving Life, America

  David Wojnarowicz (1990). “David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame”, University Galleries

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• Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they’re killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let’s make up. Have this deceased squirrel.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Flower, Squirrels

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• We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Ideas, Care, Killing Each Other

  FaceBook post by Louis de Bernieres from Jul 11, 2011

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• The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Christian, Baby, Hate

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn't want to accidentally shoot the woman in the head. Killing the hostage is always frowned upon.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Gun, Want, Made

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.207, Penguin

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• Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.

  Nora Roberts

  Song, Opportunity, Body

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.504, Penguin

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• I'm so disappointed, Ichigo, so very disappointed. Sadly, your sword exhibits only fear. When you counter, it's because you fear being killed. When you attack, you fear killing. And when you protect someone, you fear you could let them die. At this point, the only thing your sword speaks is sensless fright, and that's not good. What you don't need in battle is fear. Nothing will come of it. When you counter, you don't let them cut you. When you protect someone, you don't let them die. And when you attack, you kill." -Kisuke Urahara (Bleach)

  Tite Kubo

  Cutting, Battle, Needs

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• Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot?

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, People, Cartoon

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

  Warren Ellis

  Writing, Focus, Etc

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• There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.

  Henry Miller

  Cancer, Hero, Despair

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

  Roberto Bolano

  Secret, Attention, World

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• It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

  Norton Juster

  Wasting Time, Phantom Tollbooth, Enough

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your memories were so imperfect and . . . now I realize that just getting through the day without killing somebody can be an achievement." It gets to be a habit. Most of us manage to keep our body count quite low. It's the neighborly way to live.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sorry, Memories, Thinking

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• If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.

  George Carlin

  Peace, Eye, World

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Fire, Erosion

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Years, Patents

  "Small Gods (Discworld, Book 13)". Book by Terry Pratchett (p. 307), 1992.

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• The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.

  Terry Pratchett

  Patriotic, Discworld, Foreigners

  "Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, Book 31)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2003.

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• What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.

  Inga Muscio

  Cheating, Lying, Heart

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• If you or one of the blind fools who follows you honestly believe you can...bring it on. I'm in the mood for Slaughter. Killing and Murder, too. ~ Jericho a.k.a. Cratus

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Fool, Murder

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• no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dog, Time, Loss

  Abraham Lincoln (1888). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Full Text of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates Together with the Essay on Lincoln”

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• Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

  Katherine Neville

  Way, Inspired, Muse

  Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• I raged across the field, killing all before me. They ran when they saw me coming, and I chased them down, and killed them before they could take someone else's friend away from them.

  Ilona Andrews

  Down And, Fields, Saws

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.239, Penguin

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• Next out of the hall came the sisters and their husbands. Before I could say anything, the captain had clamped his hand over my mouth and was lifting me off my feet as I kicked. Cornwall made as to draw his dagger, but Regan pulled him away. "You've just won a kingdom, my duke, killing vermin is a servant's task. Leave the bitter fool stew in his own bile." She wanted me. It was clear.

  Christopher Moore

  Husband, Hands, Feet

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