Killing Quotes (page 60)

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• you me
• arms
• facing

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed. Joss Whedon

• love
• i love you
• end

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends. Ernest Hemingway

• humanity
• sometimes
• mercy

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human. Laurell K. Hamilton

• greatness
• great
• historical

It's an abominable fallacy that suffering makes for greater art. Suffering blinds, deafens, ruins, and often kills. Osip Mandelstam was a great poet before the revolution. So was Anna Akhmatova, so was Marina Tsvetaeva. They would have become what they became even if none of the historical events that befell Russia in this century had taken place: because they were gifted. Basically, talent doesn't need history. Joseph Brodsky

• enough
• love
• understanding

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107) Dorothy Allison

• saying
• meditation
• eyes

And let me in this place movingly admonish you, ye ship-owners of Nantucket! Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who offers to ship with the Phdon instead of Bowditch in his head. Beware of such an one, I say: your whales must be seen before they can be killed... Herman Melville

• time
• kindness
• courage

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage. Jodi Picoult

• cat
• curiosity
• likes

Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph Studs Terkel

• sad
• soul
• any

A sad soul can kill you quicker, much quicker, than any germ Henry David Thoreau

• him
• findings
• finding

If we could only find out who's in charge, we could kill him. George Carlin

• simple
• army
• first

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it. Colin Powell

• father
• friends
• my friend

I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed. My father taught me that, along with a few other things that have kept my life interesting. Hunter S. Thompson

• true
• small
• bridge

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and either one will kill us. John Steinbeck

• lawyer
• firsts
• lets

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. William Shakespeare

• music
• heart
• garden

Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. Harper Lee