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Quotes About Murder

When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.
~ Kirk Hammett
I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.
~ Adrian McKinty
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
~ Benjamin Tucker
There is no good terror and bad terror. Terror is terror. There's not terror that you can accept and terror that you cannot accept. Terror is terror. Murder is murder.
~ Ariel Sharon
But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
~ Salman Rushdie
Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political point.
~ Al Franken
We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.
~ Jim DeMint
One through the heart, one through the head. Then you know he's really dead.
~ Robert Muchamore
Overhead, a Hawk was zeroing in on a watchbird. The armored murder machine had learned a lot in a few days. Its sole function was to kill. At present it was impelled toward a certain type of living organism, metallic like itself. But the Hawk had just discovered that there were other types of living organisms, too— Which had to be murdered.
~ Robert Sheckley
One bright afternoon, near a place called Krek, Converse had watched with astonishment as the world of things transformed itself into a single overwhelming act of murder. In a manner of speaking he had discovered himself. Himself was a soft shell-less quivering thing encased in a hundred and sixty pounds of pink sweating meat. It was real enough. It tried to burrow into the earth. It wept.
~ Robert Stone
Nota del comentador: La simulación del asesinato de Barsut fue resuelta por el Astrólogo, a última hora, y después de un largo coloquio con aquél.
~ Roberto Arlt
How can one hate oneself so much that one is willing to murder that self?' The ship shook his head and rain flew from his locks. 'That is your mistake. No one wants the self to die. I only wanted to make all the rest of it to stop. The only way to achieve that was to put death between the world and myself.
~ Robin Hobb
How can one hate oneself so much that one is willing to murder that self?" "That is your mistake. No one wants the self to die. I only wanted to make all the rest ot if stop. The only way to achieve that was to put death between the world and myself.
~ Robin Hobb
That is a thing I will never understand," Amber observed in a low voice. "How can one hate oneself so much that one is willing to murder that self?" The ship shook his head and rain flew from his locks. "That is your mistake. No one wants the self to die. I only wanted to make all the rest of it stop. The only way to achieve that was to put death between the world and myself.
~ Robin Hobb
Why hadn't he realized that the first ones to kill were the ones closest to you, the ones who knew you best? It was the only way to eliminate the threat to yourself. What was the sense of killing a stranger? Strangers had small interest in hurting you. That was always done best by your family and friends.
~ Robin Hobb
to transfer her rage after all. She wanted David Price dead. And then, for the first time, she truly understood Griffin. And then, for the first time, she had an inkling of an idea. The front door opened and shut. Laurie, who had gone out to get the mail, walked into the family room, sifting through the pile. She came
~ Lisa Gardner
the unsolved case of the two dead women found nearly a month apart, linked by the way their bodies had been left in the snow, was uppermost in her mind. The
~ Lisa Jackson
I know that you guys decide who you 'like' and who you don't, then confirmation bias sets in and before you know it, the wrong person has been suspected of murder, even charged.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Jack Newlin had no choice but to frame himself for murder.
~ Lisa Scottoline
The Sicilian Inquisition shows how law can perpetrate horrific injustice, in that it sanctioned the torture, murder, and expulsion of Sicily's Jews.
~ Lisa Scottoline
But dammit, if . . . if my enemies won't allow me minimal moral sense, I wish they'd at least give me credit for competence in my vices! If I were going to murder someone, I'd have done a much smoother job than that hideous mess. No one would even guess a murder had occurred, ha!
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I once murdered someone and American Express covered everything.
~ Lorrie Moore
If a man or woman is inclined to murder or violence, owning a gun is not important. There are always a dozen things about with which a man can be killed. For
~ Louis L'Amour
her by night, somebody gets killed, see?
~ Louis L'Amour