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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
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
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'.
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).
"When did you become a shivering old woman," Okonkwo asked himself, "you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed."
chinua achebe— Chapter 8 (pp. 62–63)
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 golden toad was the first documented victim of global warming. We had killed it with our profligate use of coal-fired electricity and our oversize cars just as surely as if we had flattened its forest with bulldozers. It was as if, having experienced it, we did not recognize what happiness was.
tim flannery— Chapter 12 (p. 119)
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)
" When I started to paint, I painted children because I just felt that I wanted to take their side. What always upset me was how children are getting abused simply because they are physically weaker and not capable of defending themselves – how they get raped, enslaved and killed. I never understood why some people seemed to have fun causing pain to someone smaller."
gottfried helnwein— Interview by Brendan Maher, Start, Ireland, November 24, 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)
I hate the thought of animals being killed just for our pleasure...
leona lewis— Bang Showbiz, December 2007
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
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.
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
Charles Bukowski— The Suicide Kid
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.
I don't mind your being killed, but I object to your being taken prisoner.
1st Earl Herbert— 1914 To the Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII, who had asked to be allowed to the Front,18 Dec.
I'm a victim of a criminal act conducted by this party, which is in power right now. So put it on trial. Its leader was the prime minister and his deputy is the prime minister right now and they killed innocent Iraqis in 1980
tariq aziz— Referring to the Dawa Party that is now a party in the Shiite coalition. "Aziz takes stand for Saddam", The Scotsman, Thu 25 May 2006
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
You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.
joe strummer— The Clash, "Know Your Rights", Combat Rock (1982)
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
During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.
j. william fulbright— "The Price of Empire" speech, to the meeting of the American Bar Association in Hawaii (August 1967), in Haynes Bonner Johnson and Bernard M. Gwertzman, Fulbright: The Dissenter (1968), p. 305.
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)
I killed my dinner with karate kicked him in the face,taste the body, shallow work is the work that I do.
joanna newsom— The Book of Right-On
Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.
stephen spender— "Thoughts During An Air Raid"
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.
— XXIV.505-506 (Priam to Achilleus) (The Iliad (c. 7th century BC))
How many people have you killed 'oday? 'oo many right? Why add another? Ignore the Scout.
— Who: Miguel/RED Spy
— Source: Cuanta Vida
— Notes: Character assaults the two protaganists, Jordi and Jeremy, only to be severly injured in the process. Taunts Jordi before being shot in the head and killed.
* * as that dishonest victory At Chæronea, fatal to liberty, killed with report that old man eloquent, [Isocrates, the celebrated orator of Greece.]
— John Milton, Sonnet X. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
