Quotes About Lethality
The only person you can reliably kill with a high-power 9mm is yourself,
~ Adrian Levy
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So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.
~ Douglas Adams
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The poison in the arrow that had struck her was, in chemical structure, like curare; it paralyzed first, killed second. It is not a merciful death: one dies fully conscious and aware of one's surroundings.
~ Douglas Preston
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The techniques that were taught to the United States Marine Raiders, OSS Operatives, and British Commandos during the Second World War are some of the most highly effective unarmed killing techniques that are known.
~ Rand Cardwell
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Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen form one of the best attacking duos in football, both are very quick and deadly.
~ Cafu
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An amount of bot tox the size of the dot over this i would be enough to easily kill ten people. Bot tox is a nerve agent. It is one hundred thousand times more toxic than Sarin, the nerve gas that the Aum Shinrikyo sect released in the Tokyo subway.
~ Richard Preston
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It worries the flu scientists because they know that H5N1 influenza is (1) extremely virulent in people, with a high lethality though a relatively low number of cases, and yet (2) poorly transmissible, so far, from human to human. It'll kill you if you catch it, very likely, but you're unlikely to catch it except
~ David Quammen
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one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.
~ Patricia Highsmith
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Fists and rocks and clubs can do a limited amount of harm, but a gun is entirely different. It makes a weak man feel like a hero and a strong man feel as if he is immortal, and it removes the last inhibition a killer might feel. You don't have to be close to a man to put a bullet in him. You don't have to have to see his face.
~ Elizabeth Peters
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
~ Barton Gellman
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They're strong, they're fast, and the kill without mercy or hesitation. They're immortal, too-which kind of makes them a bitch to destroy.
~ Richelle Mead
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I want you to understand," Raylan said, "I don't pull my sidearm 'less I'm gonna shoot to kill. That's its purpose, huh, to kill. So it's how I use it.
~ Elmore Leonard
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And surely the ultimate point of weapons training was to kill humans.
~ Eoin Colfer
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One did not become one of the world's deadliest men by dropping one's guard.
~ Eoin Colfer
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In the first half of 1944, battle casualty rates for every 1,000 bomber crewmen serving six months in combat included 712 killed or missing and 175 wounded: 89 percent. By one calculation, barely one in four U.S. airmen completed twenty-five missions over Germany, a minimum quota that was soon raised to thirty and then thirty-five on the assumption that the liberation of France and Belgium and the attenuation of German airpower made flying less lethal.
~ Rick Atkinson
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I could kill you with the ink pen by the cash register, a dirty glass, or a used napkin folded in the shape of a motherfucking swan. And don't think I wouldn't have enough time to do some origami, shove it down your goddamn throat and watch you choke on it before you could move.
~ Rob Thurman
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Shaw mi squadrò da capo a piedi. "Davvero sei tanto brava a uccidere?" "Cerco di essere un bravo sbirro, cerco di essere un bravo soldatino e di obbedire agli ordini, fino a un certo punto. Alla fine però non sono un vero sbirro né un vero soldato. Sono un'assassina legalmente autorizzata. Sono la Sterminatrice.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
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The third explanation for 1918's lethality is that the flu virus triggered an overreactive immune response that turned the body against itself.
~ Jeremy Brown
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He can be lethal death.
~ Jerry Coleman
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You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it.
~ Lee Child
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Este cañón puede matar, este cañón puede destruir - y la convicción de haber creado un peligro obediente y mortal me enajenaba de alegría.
~ Roberto Arlt
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Way I figure, once a drop is enough to kill you, any more you add makes no difference." "A reasonable argument." No it's not, it's insane!
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
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And then there's the gun itself. No man in his right mind will play with a gun. I've seen show-offs doing fancy spins and all that. No real gun-fighter ever did. With a hair-trigger, he'd be likely to blow a hole in his belly. The gun-fighter knows enough of guns to be wary of them. He treats them with respect. A pistol was never made for anything except killing, and a gunfighter never draws a gun unless to shoot, and he shoots to kill.
~ Louis L'Amour
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