Killing people isn’t progress.

He’d once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in...

About his madmen Mr. Lecky was no more certain. He knew less than the little to be learned of the causes or even of the results of madness. Yet for practical purposes one can imagine...

killing”—and when one knows that death isn’t the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder...

Can’t make an omelette without killing a few people.

Work is the best method devised for killing time.

If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and if this deity is the creator of all things, then it is responsible...

You know, I preferred you as an evil monk. Would have made killing you a whole lot easier.

I am glad,” he said, “that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak, men fight with men when they meet – men of different races – but their...

Killing makes me feel good.

I don’t get you people. You watch the Godfather on television and tons of people are getting shot and stabbed to death, blood splattering everywhere and it is entertaining. But, when they killed a horse,...

…there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

This planet is dying. The human rase is killing it. …If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

She said, “You’re a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?””In compassion. Because of necessity.” Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar’s hands. “The same way you carry water.

We should be taking the lead in whatever it takes to get the killing to stop.

There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing...

The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.

Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know, or be reminded of—the more history changes, the more it stays the same.

I thought the assassin was moving kind of slow for an assassin. Maybe the magic had done something after all. Or maybe he felt sorry for me. That sort of thing happens among cutthroats more...

If in some radical miracle, the Abrahamic God revealed his existence to the world, I’d accept the belief in the deity — but I still wouldn’t worship it. The jealous and angry God that justified...

Mr. Lecky could see well enough to eat. He brought his chair over and sat down gratefully while he consumed, but with appetite now, the ham and biscuits which he had disdained in the morning....

If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have believed it. She would have spouted off all the reasons how she could never be capable of...

Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight...

A coward’s gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.

It’s the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential...

Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn’t meant to be, and we have no right to do it. A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be...

We are against killing innocent civilians. By all means. we are against that, if it’s on the Israeli side or on the Palestinian side,

Really now: If you can’t get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.’Sorry,’ Persephone suggested.’Pardon?’She murmured, ‘You should say sorry when you kill something.’It took him a moment to realize she meant the...

I feel I could kill. I feel that I might like it. And I know that this should scare me. But it doesn’t. It excites me. I am in Plato’s cave, watching the shadows and...

It was an incredible win for us. We have not exactly been killing people on the road; so winning against probably the best team in the league – and a top-10 team – is really...

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It’s about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the...

Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don’t have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway...

Why should be welcome a person who is responsible for killing of hundreds of innocent people.

Mistakes are killing us right now.

You’re late.””Sorry. I was busy talking about my feelings and killing people.

It doesn’t think anything we don’t want it to think.”That’s sad,’ said Montag, quietly, ‘because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that’s all it can ever...

Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and...

All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.

When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice...

To spare Cloyce’s victims further indignities to their memory, I must be a scourge. To prevent others from perhaps being infected by Cloyce’s depravity by watching him at work, I must be a scourge. To...

Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?

Tim Horan and Logan Gibbs did a great job killing penalties.

Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty. People no longer have need of others. You can always find a spare for any talent. Any relationship can be replaced. I had gotten bored of a world like...

I need to die for the killing of those people.

I mean, look at the way Morales refers to killing my sister in his clemency letter to the governor. He doesn’t ever say he killed Terri — he says, ‘I’ve been found guilty.’ That doesn’t...

He played solid. He was consistent all game. He did a good job on penalty killing, which was big for us.

Zombies are far better than religious people, because they do not discriminate in killing.