William Faulkner Quotes
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Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
Camille Claudel -
The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.
Karl Marlantes -
I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
R. C. Sproul -
When I get to flying open and killing people in the stands, it?s not good. That?s when you know my timing is not right and you can predict I won?t get a hit. That?s when I tell myself to use the whole field. That?s when I?m at my best.
Gary Sheffield -
Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.
Ilya Ehrenburg
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Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.
Katharine Hepburn -
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
Alan Paton -
To kill nothing, that is love.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
Trees have feelings too, and no one ever says 'hi' to them. Next time you're outside and see a tree, say 'hello'.
Daniel Johns Silverchair -
If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!
Colleen McCullough -
A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.
Plato
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It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy.
Mike Tyson -
Don't use cannon to kill musquito.
Confucius -
You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
Michelangelo -
You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.
Sigmund Freud
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CO19, the Met’s firearms unit, whose unofficial motto is, “Guns don’t kill people, we kill people with guns.
Ben Aaronovitch -
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.
William Shakespeare -
Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.
Jimmy Buffett -
We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.
William Faulkner