Throat Quotes - Page 34

• A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
  A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
  So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Drinking, Home

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• I remember the Chillicothe ballplayers grappling the Long Island ball players in a sixteen-inning game ended by darkness. And the shoulders of the Chillicothe players were a red smoke against the sundown and the shoulders of the Rock Island players were a yellow smoke against the sundown. And the umpire's voice was hoarse calling balls and strikes and outs and the umpire's throat fought in the dust for a song.

  Carl Sandburg

  Baseball, Song, Player

  Carl Sandburg, “Hits And Runs”

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• There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was the organ of blasphemy which I used for so many years. I've used many other organs to blaspheme as well if it comes to that.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Should Have, Years

  "Christopher Hitchens discusses life, death, cancer and God in interview with Newsnight". "Newsnight" with Jeremy Paxman, www.bbc.co.uk. November 26, 2010.

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• Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Silence, Sticks, Speak

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He’s body slammed enough people to start a new country. And there could be a neighbouring city for the people he’s punched in the throat

  Gena Showalter

  Country, Cities, People

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• Her throat ached: adoration, heartbreak, in equal measure. “Kiss me,” she said. “Please.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Kissing, Kiss Me

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• Alec slid his hand from Jace's arm to his shoulder. Magnus cleared his throat. Alec dropped his hand. Simon grinned into his undrunk coffee.

  Cassandra Clare

  Coffee, Hands, Arms

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• She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it.

  Georgette Heyer

  Heart, Hands, Looks

  Georgette Heyer (1939). “Royal Escape”

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• Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Nature, People, Bird

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• I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself—when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Forget Everything, Volunteer

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• He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

  Margaret Atwood

  Cutting, Forever

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

  Truman Capote

  Nice, Cutting, Gentleman

  "In Cold Blood". Book by Truman Capote, 1965.

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• You're killing me because you want me to give a message to God for you?" Jace shook his head, the point of the blade scraping across his throat. "You're crazier than I thought

  Cassandra Clare

  Giving, Want, Messages

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1177, Simon and Schuster

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• After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.

  Max Brooks

  Hands, Ass, Stills

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• Sybil tells me your little festival is an annual occurrence," she said, the cadence of her voice swooning like a lullaby. "Yes," Kai said, lifting a shrimp wonton between his chopsticks. "It falls on the ninth full moon if each year." "Ah, how lovely for you to base your holidays on the cycles of my planet." Kai wanted to scoff at the word planet but sucked it back down his throat.

  Marissa Meyer

  Fall, Holiday, Moon

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• Al's voice was faint but resolute. "Stand up. Try to look sexy." "In a bedsheet?" I complained, running my hands down it. "How can I look sexy in a bedsheet?" He cleared his throat, and I grimaced. "Never mind.

  Kim Harrison

  Sexy, Running, Hands

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• I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

  John Fowles

  Girl, Thinking, Singing

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• J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want me, or to make up songs about why I am so fat and how much food I eat. NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS BADLY. My throat constricts. The neck brace feels as if it's shrinking and cutting off my esophagus. I reach up and cover the words with my hand and the web site dissolves. I want to go. Now.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Song, Hurt, Cutting

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• I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

  Mackenzie Crook

  Knives, Wife, Car

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• Never leave an enemy behind, or it will rise again to fly at your throat !

  Shaka

  Enemy, Behinds

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• A long-dead angel who thought to own me,” was his enigmatic answer, the silver in his eyes almost liquid. “I tore out his throat. After that, I ate his liver and his heart. The remaining internal organs weren’t as tasty so I gave them to his other creatures.” Elena’s hand tightened on the handle of the knife, conscious Naasir carried gleaming blades of his own in the sheaths strapped to his arms. “I wouldn’t think a vampire who killed an angel would be permitted to live.” A slow, feral smile. “I didn’t say I killed him.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Eye, Angel

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.90, Penguin

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• Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.

  Marie Lu

  Knives, Efficiency, Slits

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.35, Penguin

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• Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

  Libba Bray

  Cutting, Naughty, Doe

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• It is okay to cut your wife's throat as long as you are rich, famous—and black.

  Jeff Cooper

  Cutting, Long, Wife

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• In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

  Jonathan Swift

  Jobs, Cutting, Should Have

  'Verses on the Upright Judge'

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