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One had been dismissed — and subsequently executed — for a foiled assassination attempt on a higher ranking student, a second had been killed in the practice arena, and the third died in his bunk of natural causes — for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.
r. a. salvatore— Homeland (1990) [Wizards of the Coast, 2005, ISBN 0-786-93953-2], p. 157
— Drizzt Do'Urden about his "friends" from Melee-Magthere
Narrated Abdullah: That he came across Abu Jahl while he was on the point of death on the day of Badr. Abu Jahl said, "You should not be proud that you have killed me nor I am ashamed of being killed by my own folk."
— Narrated by Abdullah
— Sahih Al-Bukhari: Volume 5, Book 59, Number 298.
Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes; Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth, Attempted to Believe Matilda: The effort very nearly killed her.
hilaire belloc— 1907 Cautionary Tales, 'Matilda: Who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death'.
At the battle of Badr the Apostle of Allah gave me AbuJahl's sword, as I had killed him.
— Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas'ud
— Sunan Abu Dawud: Book 14, Number 2716
He'd been mistaken in thinking that if he killed himself the sordid bourgeois world would perish with him.
— Acts ofWorship,'Raisin Bread' (translated byJohn Bester,1989).
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
sitting bull— Recorded by Charles Larpenteur at Fort Union in 1867. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 73.
The idea that a game is anything more than a game… You know, there are people who are basically unbalanced who are going to misuse a game and have bad results. If a golfer who insists on playing during a lightning storm gets hit by a stroke of lightning and is killed nobody says, 'There's golfers dying by the droves being hit by lightning!' You can overdo what you really like, and if you're unbalanced you go overboard.
gary gygax— GameSpy interview, Pt. 1 (15 August 2004)
I have had a son killed, a son-in-law die during the last battle of Nashville, another son has thrown himself away, a second son-in-law is in no better condition, I think I have had sorrow enough without having my bank account examined by a Committee of Congress.
andrew johnson— Letter to his friend Colonel William G. Moore, complaining of Congressional investigations.... (1 May 1867)
Furthermore, all the Western politicians, intellectuals and journalists are obliged to pay homage and bow to the monument that commemorates those allegedly killed in the Nazi concentration camps. In other words, all should acknowledge the veracity of something that has not been proven! This is also one of the propaganda means being applied by the Zionists to portray themselves as the victims of persecution!
ali khamenei— January 31, 2002 statements to the Islamic World Media conference held in Tehran
Shells used to come bursting on my bed at midnight, even though Nancy shared it with me; strangers in daytime would assume the faces of friends who had been killed... I could not use a telephone, I felt sick every time I travelled by train, and to see more than two new people in a single day prevented me from sleeping.
robert graves— Ch.26 On being at home in Harlech in 1919. During the First World War, the mental effects of war on the fighting men were called shell shock or neurasthenia — or dismissed altogether as cowardice. Graves describes very clearly symptoms of what would now be seen as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
silver bullet (SIL-vuhr BOOL-it) noun: A quick solution to a thorny problem. [From the belief that werewolves could be killed when shot with silver bullets.] "Writing code, he (Stuart Feldman) explains, is like writing poetry: every word, each placement counts. Except that software is harder, because digital poems can have millions of lines which are all somehow interconnected. Try fixing programming errors, known as bugs, and you often introduce new ones. So far, he laments, nobody has found a silver bullet to kill the beast of complexity."
— Survey: The Beast of Complexity; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 14, 2001.
Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish-spawn. It's not just getting them killed in wars: mere middle age snuffs out ten times more talent than ever wars and sudden death do.
Richard Arthur Warren Hughes— 1961The Fox in the Attic, bk.1, ch.18.
My draft-dodging father proved that in the struggle for survival the fittest are most likely to get killed off.
— 'Partisanship and Scholarship', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of Their Own Lives (1990).
I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.
bruce bennett— Referring to his role in the The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), as quoted in Please Don't Call Me Tarzan : The Life Story of Herman Brix/Bruce Bennett (2001) by Mike Chapman; also in "Herman Brix, 100; Olympian became actor known as Bruce Bennett" by Dennis McLellan in The Los Angeles Times (28 February 2007)
The more opportunities there are in a Society for some persons to live upon the toil of others, and the less those others may enjoy the fruits of their work themselves, the more is diligence killed, the former become insolent, the latter despairing, and both negligent.
anders chydenius— The National Gain, §20, 1765.
I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot, i.e., loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better), you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.
ernest hemingway— Letter (12 January 1936); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
That dichotomy between who she was and who she thought she should be was what really killed her.
charles de lint— “Pal o’ Mine”, p. 244
He admitted killing Officer John Frey. He said that before he killed Frey, the police and the power structure could just come down to the black community and do anything they wanted. But after he shot Frey, much of that changed.
huey p. newton— Hugh Pearson (1994) The Shadow of the Panther p. 7, describing a statement to Willie Payne on the night of his death
The first thing I ever thought of when I thought of Buffy , the movie, was the little...blonde girl who goes into a dark alley and gets killed, in every horror movie. The idea of Buffy was to subvert that idea, that image, and create someone who was a hero where she had always been a victim. That element of surprise ... genre-busting is very much at the heart of both the movie and the series.
joss whedon— Welcome to the Hellmouth (1997) DVD Commentary
He was a quiet, gentle man, a man who loved peace (his country had suffered much from the wars of his predecessor), he behaved graciously toward everyone, humble and great alike. Never high-handed, he always sought advice in the kingdom’s affairs from serious, experienced people. Just why his nephew killed him was never precisely explained.
constantine p. cavafy— King Claudius (inspired by the story of Hamlet by William Shakespeare)
I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through; I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children.
homer— XXIV.505-506 (Priam to Achilleus)
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
rudyard kipling— The Phantom 'Rickshaw (1888).
I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler , but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin 's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.
dmitri shostakovich— Page 155 (Testimony (1979))
We have scotched the snake, not killed it: She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of our former tooth.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 2, line 13.
Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.
— Eight Homilies Against the Jews, Homily 1
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.
— Edmond Taylor, in The Fossil Monarchies.
Child, look what you have done. You have killed me, an insignificant man. But in my place, there shall rise...a god...
— Who: Grigori Rasputin
— Source: Hellboy.
