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Quotes About Assassins

Assassins murdered freedom merely by existing.
~ Harry Turtledove
Universal City Oakwood, a complex of furnished temporary-stay apartments on Barham Boulevard. The Oakwood was popular with businessmen, airline pilots and stewardesses, recently divorced fathers, and actors staying in LA for auditions, episodic guest shots, or movie shoots. Visiting assassins liked it, too. The best part of staying there was the sex. Unless you had leprosy, it was almost impossible not to get laid. And even then, your chances were still pretty good.
~ Lee Goldberg
I'm not much of a ladies' man, but on this particular morning it seemed to me that what I really wanted was some charming girl to buzz up and ask me to save her from assassins or something.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
No one's better at stopping assassins than the world's best assassin.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Assassins tended to favor bulky clothing and small handguns.
~ David Baldacci
Longer-term strategies were the professional domain of others, mostly political types. These folks made good assassins, too. Only instead of bullets, they were basically bribed to enact laws by other folks with more money than was good for them. And they harmed a lot more people than Robie ever could.
~ David Baldacci
Raisa tried to lift her head and look around, but couldn't seem to find the strength. "Where are they the assassins?" "They're already dead," Micah whispered in her ear. "I killed them on my way up. Else I would have been there sooner.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I think about all the strangeness of his being here, sleeping in homespun sheets, wearing the same clothes for days on end, eating bread and cheese, and not complaining about any of it. It almost seems like he prefers a nest of spies and assassins to the splendour of his own bed.
~ Holly Black
The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
~ W. H. Auden
Para Rick Deckard, un robot humanoide fugitivo, equipado con inteligencia superior a la de muchos seres humanos, que hubiera matado a su amo, que no tuviera consideración por los animales ni fuera capaz de sentir alegría empática por el éxito de otra forma de vida, ni dolor por su derrota, era la síntesis de los Asesinos.
~ Philip K. Dick
A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.
~ Kelly Rowan
I no longer remember which psychiatrist wrote a dissertation demonstrating that the assassins hadn't lost their moral bearings: they knew how to discern Good and Evil; it was the sense of reality that was missing. In their eyes, the victims did not belong to humankind;
~ Unknown
Not that my watching out was likely to do a lot of good, I thought; every second man on the dock looked like an assassin to me.
~ Diana Gabaldon
To say that the two assassins were dead was as much of an understatement as saying that a supernova is the end of a star's life. It conveyed nothing of the catastrophic violence involved.
~ Dan Abnett
They say he has kept his identity a secret to guard against assassins. They say that he liberated us from foreign domination and gave us independence. They tell us Pol Pot makes us work hard because he wants to purify our spirit and help us achieve beyond our potential as farmers. They say he has a round face, full lips, and kind eyes. I wonder if his kind eyes can see us starving.
~ Loung Ung
Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
You don't give hired assassins supper, do you?" Quentin smiled. "No, but when a wolf follows your sleigh, you give it meat," he
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings
~ Ambrose Bierce
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
~ Indira Gandhi
Sneaky would be a lime-green Volkswagen. Nobody would suspect the assassins in the lime-green Volkswagen.
~ Unknown
Any religion with a sword is not a religion; it is merely an army of assassins! A real man of God carries only flowers in his hands!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
James Shannon delivered the convention's opening address, which set the tone for the two-day event. His remarks were nothing if not unequivocal. Any threat to the biblically sanctioned right to hold slaves, Shannon assured his audience, "is just cause of war between the separate states." Those who advocated restrictions on slavery he denounced as "liars, yelping curs, assassins, knaves, Negro thieves and horse thieves."14 After
~ Unknown
The Templars would later encounter Ismaili dualists in the form of the Assassins, who would descend from their Syrian mountain eyrie to commit acts of terror against all sides.
~ Unknown