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Quotes About Murder

There's always a temptation, in the middle of a long struggle, to seek the quiet life, to escape the duties and problems of the world, and to hope the enemy grows weary of fanaticism and tired of murder. This would be a pleasant world, but it's not the world we live in. The enemy is never tired, never sated, never content with yesterday's brutality. This enemy considers every retreat of the civilized world as an invitation to greater violence.
~ bush george w iii
The headless trunk was discovered impaled on a metal fencepost on the edge of the town park.
~ C.J. Box
like to see Clay McCann thrown in prison because he doesn't like the idea of a man getting away with murder in his state, despite the weird legal circumstances of this one.
~ C.J. Box
Keeley used the opening to bury the knife into Hank Scarlett's heart. It took three tries.
~ C.J. Box
was brown from being soaked. Joe thanked him as he passed by. "Murder/suicide, huh?
~ C.J. Box
back in the seventies four women were killed. Librarians....
~ C.J. Carmichael
That morning, for all I sat behind the stinking coffin of a murdered man, I found myself lulled along by the monks' beautiful, polyphonic chant. The psalms, and the Latin reading from Job, struck a chord. 'And thou sayest, how doth God know? Can he judge through the dark cloud? Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seest not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.' Thick clouds indeed, I thought. I am still in a fog here.
~ C.J. Sansom
what if our murderer viewed his current work as just that sort of protection? Could Sara shift her point of view enough to grasp that every victim and situation leading up to a murder resonated within the killer to a distant experience of threat and violence and led him for reasons that we had not yet fully defined to take angry measures in his own defense?
~ Caleb Carr
To clear up a murder you must do your own killing
~ Cameron McCabe
While we are quick to judge the human rights record of every other country on earth, it is we civilized Americans whose murder rate is ten times that of other Western nations, we civilized Americans who kill women and children with the most alarming frequency. In
~ Gavin de Becker
She went in the pool," she finished for me. "Ohmigod. She was killed while tweeting. It was Twittercide!
~ Gemma Halliday
I raised one eyebrow in his direction, wondering if that last line had been in their sponsorship contract. In case of unexpected murder, please plug the Tropical Tryst Buffet and the Hula Hibiscus Day Spa.
~ Gemma Halliday
head lulled to one side, a trickle of blood dripped down the front of her dress, and her eyes stared at the ceiling, wide and unseeing. And totally dead.
~ Gemma Halliday
You're making me rethink my stance against cold-blooded homicide.
~ Gena Showalter
Midnight. The witching hour, some say. Since it was 12:07 A.M. and I was standing over a dead body, I had to agree.
~ Gena Showalter
I wasn't an ever-knowing adult; I was just expected to act like one. And, yeah. a real nice family tree I had. Murder and mayhem on every gnarled branch. Hardly seemed fair.
~ Gena Showalter
In 2012, an estimated 14,827 persons were murdered in the United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation
~ Gennaro F. Vito
But privately, the ongoing struggle in Indochina filled him with dread. "I feel just like I grabbed a big juicy worm," he told an aide, "with a right sharp hook in the middle of it." The president had opposed the coup that overthrew and murdered Ngo Dinh Diem, fearing it would make a bad situation worse. It had.
~ Geoffrey C. Ward
Mordre wol out, certeyn, it wol nat faille.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Caldenia smiled. A Quillonian chef, my dear you shouldn't have. Well you should have months ago, but one mustn't be petty. Finally. I shall be dining in a style to which I am suited. Fantastic. Does he have moral scruples I am reasonably sure this summit will result in at least one murder, and I have never tasted an otrokar.
~ Ilona Andrews
Their first option is murder, their second option is murder and if that fails they go straight to murder.
~ Ilona Andrews
If I have to murder Hugh, I don't want to do it naked," he said. "It would be weird.
~ Ilona Andrews
Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal.
~ Ilona Andrews
Father, you are sending mixed signals. You dispatched a woman to murder me today and now you're upset about my wedding reception?
~ Ilona Andrews