Coldblooded Quotes
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I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists .
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More Coldblooded Quotes
He who will establish himself on a certain height must yield according to circumstances, like the weather-cock on a church-spire, which, though it be made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it remained obstinately immovable, and did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. But a great man will never so far contradict his own feelings as to see, or, it may be, increase, with cold-blooded indifference, the misfortunes of his fellow country-men.
Heinrich Heine— English Fragments (1828), Ch. 11 : The Emancipation
— Variant: The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.
hunter s. thompson— As quoted in the editors note by Douglas Brinkley, in Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist (2000), p.xvi ISBN 0747553459
— Variant: "I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a raving beast.
As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather… the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.
dean r. koontz— Part 1, Chapter 7.8; Garrison Dilworth reassuring the Cornells during their flight
But in our waking hours we must, if we are rational, make our decisions on the basis of the most objective and cold-blooded estimates that we can make: estimates of the forces and tendencies in the world about us; estimates of the realities with which we must deal; remembering always that nothing is likely to happen just because we think it's good, or unlikely to happen just because we think it's evil.
— Revilo P. Oliver, "What We Owe Our Parasites", speech (June 1968); Free Speech magazine (October and November 1995).
Come on, then! Who will strike first and brand themselves a cold-blooded killer?
— Who: Tal Merrik
— Source: Voyage of Temptation
I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices — it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath — someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts ... just an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown .... [being given] free rein [by director Christopher Nolan was] fun, because there are no real boundaries to what The Joker would say or do. Nothing intimidates him, and everything is a big joke."
heath ledger— Interview remarks published in Empire, from interviews conducted in November 2007.
— Dan Jolin (January 2008). "Fear Has a Face". Empire 223: 87–88. Retrieved on 2008-07-08.
— Dan Jolin (July 2008). "The Dark Knight". Empire 229: 92–100. Retrieved on 2008-08-18.
— Olly Richards (November 28, 2007). "World Exclusive: The Joker Speaks: He's a Cold-blooded Mass-murdering Clown" (Web). Empire (Bauer Verlagsgruppe). Retrieved on 2008-08-18.
