Killed Quotes
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People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.
Campbell McGrath -
An irresistible fascination with terrifying death killed me ahead of time.
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
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It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.
Bruce Willis -
I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane was killed, we knew we lost a great part of that, but we still managed to play some great music.
Dickey Betts -
Red tape has killed more people than bullets.
Ben Bova -
We are appalled at the poor taste behind the decision to present this musical at the site where Jews were enslaved and killed.
Abraham Foxman -
When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.
Sophocles
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It's better for one to die than for all of us to be killed in a shooting affray. Anyway, we've practically no ammunition.
Erwin Rommel -
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of those killed were civilians, in the Second World War 48 percent, while in a Third World War 90-95 percent would be civilians.
Colin Ward -
In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.
Allan Nairn -
What we have caught and what we have killed we have left behind, but what has escaped us we bring with us.
Heraclitus -
We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
I never killed a man who didn't need it.
Clay Allison
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They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself!
Ernst Rohm -
Unfortunately, on May 2, 2011, we killed bin Laden, but we didn't kill his message. His message lives.
Ali Soufan -
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
Rudyard Kipling -
I never killed anyone with my tuba.
Bill Barber -
I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
Muhammad Ali
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You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
Jasper Fforde -
A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!
Moliere -
What's interesting is that when you get into the post-war period, many of the narratives in books and movies conclude that if you killed Hitler, you're actually going to make history worse.
Gavriel David Rosenfeld