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Quotes About Killing

What a magnificent creature. A killing machine of great beauty, who had the wydring way. An alchemist could not have grown a more perfect specimen in a vat.
~ Storm Constantine
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
~ Ernie Pyle
Our guys were just playing at being gangsters—the Yugoslavs had been thieving and killing in Europe for real over decades. They were seriously tough, and to this day, if you want to kill somebody in Bulgaria and you want the job done reliably and cheaply, then you hire a Serb. They are the best assassins.
~ Misha Glenny
And the name of the party,' Abigail was saying in her description of one of the founders of the Highgate Review, is Howard Send. Too killing. I called him Passage to India, he was amazed. Of course he's that way, but they often make better friends.
~ Muriel Spark
If I ever did go maleficer, if I ever did start pulling malia out of people like toffee and tossing off those killing spells of mine left and right, I'd be unstoppable. Maybe literally. Raining death and destruction on all the enclaves of the world like a maw-mouth myself, like the biggest maw-mouth ever, tearing the others apart because they were my competition.
~ Naomi Novik
He picked some unwise words. Saying, "I'll enjoy killing you for my lord", is just not the way to make my acquaintance.
~ Charlaine Harris
She(Pam) said you had a habit of killing the bartenders of Fangtasia, Felicia said, her lovely doe eyes wide with amazement. She said I must come to beg your mercy. But you just seem like a human, to me.
~ Charlaine Harris
No one disputes Iran's destabilizing influence in the Middle East or role in killing Americans.
~ Ted Deutch
When you were so depressed after you shot Mr. Garrett Jacob Hobbs to death, it wasn't the act that got you down, was it? Really, didn't you feel so bad because killing him felt so good? Think about it, but don't worry about it. Why shouldn't it feel good? It must feel good to God—He does it all the time, and are we not made in His image?
~ Thomas Harris
This was a holiday and killing Grentz was preferable to skiing. The
~ Thomas Harris
They think akuma are merely weapons for killing. They don't yet know their true importance. That's good.
~ Katsura Hoshino
Ishigami's design. Yet it all still seemed too unreal to be true. Killing a person to hide a murder – who would think of something like that? Of course, that's the point. He didn't want us to think of it.
~ Keigo Higashino
Quick-thinking Nathan eventually bought the prince his consols, but he first used the money to successfully speculate in gold bullion, making a killing and a reputation for himself in the London exchange.
~ Kenneth L. Fisher
Truth is like life in that we cannot freeze it without killing it.
~ Kenneth S. Leong
To clear up a murder you must do your own killing
~ Cameron McCabe
Christmas dawned clear and cold; lovely weather for killing Germans, although the thought seemed somewhat at variance with the spirit of the day.
~ Gen. George S. Patton
She liked to steal - so what. She could kill without blinking - again, so what. It wasn't like she worked for the IRS or anything" - Bianka
~ Gena Showalter
Yes. Me. I'm an immortal made for war, and killing is what I do. What I'm good at. I do not live by the same rules as other people, those who do not have to fight to retain their liberties, those who let others do the fighting for them, then scoff at the results." - Knox
~ Gena Showalter
It is hardest to write on the Holocaust. It had no military purpose. While everything else Hitler did could, with some strain, be fitted with some military logic, the industrialized killing of 6 million Jews and millions of others could not be. A place like Auschwitz did nothing to help with the war effort and used up massive resources, if not for food for the inmates, then for manpower, trains, and the rest. But
~ George Friedman
I really would like to know," he said with genuine curiosity. "The next time I kill someone, I'd like to do it in a way that doesn't freak you out." "How
~ Ilona Andrews
This was hell and I was its fury. I raised my sword and killed again, with a smile on my face.
~ Ilona Andrews
I would like to send you to hell. My dear, I live in hell, and have done so since I was a small child. Since I regained my mind I have thought, and dreamt too, of nothing but of killing you. You can do it any time, if you don't mind going to prison.
~ Iris Murdoch
But murder applies specifically to human beings. One does not murder an animal, for instance.
~ Isaac Asimov
I planned killing Mis before he could talk. I planned it secretly—as secretly as I could—so secretly I didn't dare tell it to myself.
~ Isaac Asimov