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Quotes About Deadly

Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.
~ Greg Bear
Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
~ James Anthony Froude
Bosch knew that department policy held that deadly force was justified if it was used to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to an officer or a citizen. Mendenhall was not required to identify herself or give Ellis the opportunity to drop his weapon.
~ Michael Connelly
But if planting deadly ferns at poolside was any indication, then it was clear that the designers of Jurassic Park had not been as careful as they should have been.
~ Michael Crichton
Sarah," I began softly, "if the Business Development Process were only about Orchestration, I would agree with you—it would be deadly. Absent a higher purpose, all habits are. Because that's all that Orchestration really is, Sarah: a habit. A way of doing something habitually.
~ Michael E. Gerber
The infection fatality rate had not just a numerator (deaths) but also a denominator (infections). If you didn't know how many people had survived infection, you couldn't say how deadly the virus actually was.
~ Michael Lewis
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
~ Joseph Epstein
I'm very grateful that I don't have to wear heels, because I can barely walk in heels. If I were to skip, it would be deadly.
~ AJ Lee
In other words, by mid-century, climate change could be just as deadly as COVID-19, and by 2100 it could be five times as deadly.
~ Bill Gates
He was so easygoing, she forgot he could be deadly. And startling as his anger was, it gave her another key to understanding him.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Smiles can be deadlier than pistols, if used correctly.
~ Suzanne Enoch
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
~ Tamora Pierce
Isn't biblical Eden an ambivalent symbol? It seems to me that the myth simply shows us that self-awareness and intelligence are perilous. And they can be deadly. But consider the alternative to the Tree of Knowledge. Would anyone want innocence at such a price?
~ Julian May
Oh, my goodness, Lord Dryden. You should have seen your face when you said the word work. It's not counted among the deadly sins, you know.
~ Julie Anne Long
We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.
~ Juvenal
Abortion is one of the most shocking, yet entirely logical, extensions of this obsession with comfort, convenience and luxury. Less dramatic, but just as deadly to millions of lost souls in our world, is our unwillingness to make even small sacrifices to reach them with the Gospel.
~ K.P. Yohannan
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
The Gray Assassin?" Vincent exclaimed. "Who isn't here to kill us? They don't want us kind of dead, they want us extremely dead!
~ Brandon Mull
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It is a power that, had you been born an aristocrat, would have made you one of the most deadly and influential people in all of the final empire.' Kelsier leaned forward again. 'But, you weren't born an aristocrat. You're not noble, Vin. You don't have to play by their rules--and that makes you even more powerful.
~ Brandon Sanderson
A rifle is elegant. It's an extension of your will. Take aim, squeeze the trigger, make things happen. In the hands of an expert with stillness inside of him, there's nothing more deadly than a good rifle.
~ Brandon Sanderson
To a drone I'd have a tiny heat signature, like a squirrel or something. A secretly very, very deadly squirrel.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Oh, my Captain! my Captain! noble soul! grand old heart, after all! why should any one give chase to that hated fish! Away with me! let us fly these deadly waters! let us home!
~ Herman Melville
When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.
~ Bernie Sanders