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Quotes About Assassin

Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.
~ Christopher Buckley
Luca Brasi was such a man. But he was such an extraordinary man that for a long time nobody could kill him. Most of these people are of no concern to ourselves but a Brasi is a powerful weapon to be used. The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death, but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then.
~ Mario Puzo
What further does it tell us? This: that the assassin was left-handed. How do I know this? I should not be able to explain to you, gentlemen, how I know it, the signs being so subtle that only long experience and deep study can enable one to detect them. But the signs are here, and they are reinforced by a fact which you must have often noticed in the great detective narratives—that all assassins are left-handed. By
~ Mark Twain
Another curious case is that of the word assassin, which you may use to describe a certain kind of politically motivated killer. The word derives from the historical case of a certain religious sect that used to murder people while under the influence of hashis. The word for someone who smokes hashish is hashashin.
~ Martin Cohen
So, I heard you're this ninja or something.
~ Stephen Chbosky
A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.
~ Stephen Crane
LVI A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.
~ Stephen Crane
Je n'ai jamais été aussi libre, jamais la vie n'a été aussi belle. Je suis un assassin, j'ai l'image la plus basse qui puisse exister dans la société, mais c'est plus facile à supporter que les vingts ans de mensonge d'avant.
~ Emmanuel Carrère
Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.
~ Eoin Colfer
The last thing I need is a friendly how's-it-going chat with a professional killer. That's a definite dating no-no—
~ Gordon Korman
assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks from ambush, with no warning and no mercy. I know now that assassin grief can hide for years and the strike suddenly, on the happiest day, without discernible reason or exegesis.
~ Gregory David Roberts
assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks from ambush, with no warning and no mercy. I know now that assassin grief can hide for years and then strike suddenly, on the happiest day, without discernible reason or exegesis.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
~ Maggie Q
The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time.
~ Joachim Schmid
I am the assassin of those most innocent victims; they died by my machinations.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds. Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies. Alphonse Frankenstein
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
A bodyguard. Sounded possible. The guy hadn't recognized me, I'd seen that. He was probably here just for protection and surveillance tag team. Or he could have been the triggerman. The Agency relies on contractor cutouts for its wetwork, people like me. He might have been one of them.
~ Barry Eisler
Sometimes death is natural, a mercy that puts an end to suffering. But all too often it comes as an assassin, full of senseless cruelty and lacking any vestige of compassion.
~ Stephen King
Arab terrorist, international hitman, it's all a bit Andy McNab, isn't it?
~ Stephen Leather
a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.
~ Luis de Camoes
En esa foto personal e imaginaria, la dama blanca viste de negro y tiene las facciones duras y a la vez sensuales. Parece una asesina a sueldo, pero en realidad es una emperatriz provista de un puñal. Y resulta que ese puñal vengo a ser yo.
~ Jorge Fernández Díaz
In order to survive, Tom and the Spook must form an alliance with Grimalkin, the deadly witch assassin of the most powerful of the Pendle clans.
~ Joseph Delaney
The Wehrmacht soldiers have the advantage of surprise and know this terrain far better than their enemies do. They slaughter the men of the Third Army where they lie hiding, killing them one by one. The last words many of the Americans will ever hear are spoken in German, in the quiet whisper of an assassin. Last
~ Bill O'Reilly
The assassin is immediately punched in the head by a nearby spectator, then gang-tackled by the crowd. Hinckley is buried beneath several hundred pounds of angry citizens as Secret Service agents try to take him alive. Ironically, their job is to now protect Hinckley with the same vigor they devote to protecting the president.
~ Bill O'Reilly