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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
I hate the thought of animals being killed just for our pleasure...
leona lewis— Bang Showbiz, December 2007
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.
Just as the camera draws a stake through the heart of serious portraiture, television has killed the novel of social reportage.
jonathan franzen— 2002 How to Be Alone. English writer, best known for her historical biographies.
Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction.
martti ahtisaari— Defending the US government decision to invade Iraq, as quoted in "Nobel Finn" in Wall Street Journal (11 October 2008)
There are not many places to go once you've killed someone like John Lennon.
mark david chapman— Mark Chapman [5]
"People always talk about Ronaldinho, and everything but I didn't see him today - I saw Henrik Larsson. Two times he came on - he changed the game, that is what killed the game - sometimes you talk about Ronaldinho and Eto'o and people like that, you need to talk about the proper footballer who made the difference and that was Henrik Larsson tonight."
henrik larsson— Thierry Henry, UEFA Champions' League Final 2006 (Arsenal 1-2 Barcelona) [[2]]
Now God killed John Lennon and he let Barry Manilow survive,But the good Lord blessed little Adrian Mitchell with the fastest cock alive.
Adrian Mitchell— "Adrian Mitchell's Famous Weak Bladder Blues", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991)
I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune. I am the cause of your death, for if I had been a different man, if I had not been wanting in all principles, all foundations of life, there would not have come upon you the shocks that killed you.
henryk sienkiewicz— Rome, 5 December
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.
— p. 28 (The Politics of Experience (1967))
And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed more people, and congested the streets just as much.
Peter Drucker— Chapter 24, pg.317
We now talk of our killed and wounded. There is however a very happy feeling. Those who escape regret of course the loss of comrades and friends, but their own escape and safety to some extent modifies their feelings.
rutherford b. hayes— Letter to Lucy Webb Hayes (25 October 1864).
[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience . He was killed for it.
bill moyers— "Help", speech to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (3 March 2007), in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 111
I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race – I am ashamed to belong to such a species.
bertrand russell— Letter to Colette, December 28, 1916.It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
The old Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, up on a hill, now a Museum , is floodlit, is past an avenue of 25 fountains, all different and illuminated in a changing spectrum of colours . The Museum itself has some fascinating exhibits, including statues of [[w:Saints|saints and the Apostles, relics and gravestones of Portuguese killed in battles, and fragments of an old Jain temple that used to stand on this spot.
— Thing Asian, in "Diu Island: Portugal, via Mumbai".
The recompense of those who wage war against Allâh and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off on the opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter.
— Qur'an 5:33
— "South Korean Hostage Pleads for Help". Jihad Watch. August 5, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-08-05.
I am convinced that we face a great offensive immediately," "We have lost more than 400 killed and 300 wounded since Nov. 5 and now the Japanese have handed an ultimatum to me. I know we are not strong enough to fight. But we must hold our own, until Death!
— "CHINA-JAPAN: Hero Ma". TIME. 23 November 1931.
You killed him!
— Who: Gabriel Gray/Sylar (future)
— Source: Episode 3x04 "I Am Become Death"
— Notes: In an alternate future timeline, Gabriel loses control of his radiation powers after Noah dies, exploding and killing himself, along with 200,000 people in Costa Verde.
If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself.
— Who: Ernst Röhm
— Note: He was co-founder of the ("Storm Battalion"; SA) and was among a number of Nazi officials who were suspected of conspiring against Adolf Hitler. He was executed during the 1934 Night of Long Knives. Hitler was hesitant in ordering his execution and gave Röhm the opportunity to commit suicide. On July 2, he was given a pistol by 2 SS officers and was told he had 10 minutes to use it. He refused and stated what were to be his last words. He was later shot in the chest by SS-Obersturmbannführer Michael Lippert.
