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Quotes About Assassins

He was dead, buried the month before with full military honors with a clove of garlic in his mouth and a stake through his heart. He was well out of it, his last thoughts of revenge upon his Czech assassins still suspended inside his elongated El Greco head like so much frozen gray mud, and there was no more harm he could do anyone.
~ Philip Kerr
Los asesinos de Siria son tanto los descendientes de los sicarios judíos como los antepasados de los terroristas suicidas del Hezbollah.
~ Piers Paul Read
When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.
~ R.L. LaFevers
The law of chaos is the law of ideas, Of improvisations and seasons of belief. Ideas are men. The mass of meaning and The mass of men are one. Chaos is not The mass of meaning. It is three or four Ideas, or, say, five men or, possibly, six. In the end, these philosophic assassins pull Revolvers and shoot each other. One remains. The mass of meaning becomes composed again.
~ Wallace Stevens
Lee infiltrated the plot to kill President Kennedy, was set up as the patsy, and was then murdered to protect the real assassins by silencing him.
~ Richard Belzer
Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.
~ Carrie Vaughn
Avoca?ii sunt asasinii pl?ti?i ai zilelor noastre.
~ David Lagercrantz
Assassins: they got sass and live on sin.
~ Natalya Vorobyova
Wolves regularly attacked their rivals in power, so the idea of killing to gain position was neither alien nor repulsive to her. The use of assassins she had filed as yet another of the curious tools - like swords and bows — that humans created to make up for their lack of personal armament. What she still had to puzzle through was the subtle strategies involved in killing those who were expected to inherit power rather than those who held the power itself.
~ Jane Lindskold
They're like the…what is it? The League of Assassins in Arrow!
~ Rick Riordan
Taxis are expensive for moderately employed dwarfs who rent extra apartments, swim at private clubs, and fancy themselves as righteous assassins.
~ Katherine Dunn
Vous êtes content de vous ? - Oui. J'éclate de rire. - Vous riez ? - Oui. Je songe que, normalement, les assassins font couler le sang d'autrui, tandis que moi, sans verser une goutte du sang de ma victime, je l'ai tuée pour mettre un terme à son hémorragie, pour la restituer à son immortalité originelle et non sanglante. Un tel paradoxe me fait rire. - Vous avez un sens de l'humour étonnamment déplacé.
~ Amelie Nothomb
I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.
~ Joe Mantello
It's that you're not outraged that someone's trying to kill you. Your just accept it, almost like it's normal. It isn't normal Assassins aren't normal, even for me, Richard I said. Just vampires, zombies, and werewolves he said. I smiled. Yeah.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
It's at times like this, said Pu Sto, massaging her wounded shoulder gently and grimacing, when I'm sitting inside Shakespeare's nose about to be shot through the torso - for the second time today - by one of our government's most capable assassins, that I really wished I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.
~ Adam Roberts
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
~ Maajid Nawaz
I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.
~ Michael Reagan
Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.
~ Robin Hobb
I know you meant no harm by it, boy. But men don't talk about times spent among the pillows with a lady. And assassins don't talk about…our business.
~ Robin Hobb
Never pretend we are anything but what we are. Assassins.
~ Robin Hobb
Boy," Chade remarked quietly. "Never pretend we are anything but what we are. Assassins. Not merciful agents of a wise king. Political assassins dealing death for the furtherance of our monarchy. That is what we are.
~ Robin Hobb
When he stopped hitting me and seized my wrists, I darted my head in and bit his hand as hard as I could. He roared and then screamed with pain and outrage. Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.
~ Robin Hobb
On the third, we got into troubles. Baz Jesek had gotten more and more involved with equipment and maintenance—he is a good engineer, I'll give him that—I was tactical commander, and Oser—I thought by default, but now I think design—took up the administrative slack. Could have been good, each doing what he did best, if Oser'd been working with and not against us. In the same situation, I'd have sent assassins. Oser employed guerilla accountants.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold