Assassins Quotes - Page 3

• The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil against good in which 'terrorism' simply signified 'any doubt about the policies or character of Stalin.' All his political opponents were per se assassins. More than two 'terrorists' was a 'conspiracy'.

  Simon Sebag-Montefiore

  Character, Two, Evil

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• It's hard for me to climb things. That's why I always play Assassin's Creed because it gets me feeling like I can.

  Ty Simpkins

  Play, Feelings, Creeds

  "JURASSIC WORLD: Ty Simpkins Talks Landing His Role, the Gyrosphere, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Sleep, Men, Clients

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spy, Done, World

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• I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

  Jim Morrison

  Thinking, Superstar, Politician

  "When You're Strange", 2009.

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• President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.

  Maureen Dowd

  Blow, Presidential, Pockets

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• I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.

  Ken Livingstone

  Serial Killer, Killers, Scared

  2000 On Margaret Thatcher. In The Times, 7 Mar.

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• The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.

  Cyprian

  Numbers, Mad, World

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• Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

  Terry Pratchett

  Priests, Metals, Saved

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Pyramids: A Novel of Discworld”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• You’re sleeping with an assassin, running for your life every single day from men who want to kill you and you’re convinced you’re going to die of discomfort.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Running, Sleep, Men

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• Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Patriotic, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

  Richard Condon

  Cancer, Men, Leader

  Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• At the first meeting of the newly constituted Warren Commission, [former CIA Director] Allen Dulles handed out copies of a book to help define the ideological parameters he proposed for the Commission's forthcoming work. American assassinations were different from European ones, he told the Commission. European assassinations were the work of conspiracies, whereas American assassins acted alone.

  Peter Dale Scott

  Book, Directors, Different

  "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK". Book by Peter Dale Scott, June 22, 1996.

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• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  Sam Rockwell

  Art, Character, Training

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• Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Know How, Knows

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• I soon began to dream. ... I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. ... I left my bed and wandered downstairs. ... There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was a catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.''

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, White, Numbers

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• When I think about him, I think about him as John and John Wick. I think of John Wick being the assassin part of John. I would say that guy has strong will; never gives up; he's kind; and there's honor about him. He's also a man of strength. There are even some vulnerabilities to him. Most importantly, he's good at his job.

  Keanu Reeves

  Strong, Jobs, Giving Up

  Source: lrmonline.com

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• If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly apt. But the full aptness of such an attempt is entirely compatible with its being a horrible murder, if the "hunter" is an assassin and the prey his victim. That hunter's shot may still be outstandingly, fully apt, if it manifests the agent's competence in both archery dexterity and shot selection.

  Ernest Sosa

  Archery, May, Succeed

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.

  Joe Mantello

  Thinking, Directors, Prejudice

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• In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].

  Oliver Cromwell

  Kings, Support, Trials

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• I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.

  Stephen Colbert

  Character, Boxing, Feelings

  "The man in the irony mask". Interview with Seth Mnookin, www.vanityfair.com. October, 2007.

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• Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.

  Grenville Kleiser

  House, Mind, Destructive

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.

  Sam Kinison

  Rap, Guy, Style

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• No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Numbers, Government, Long

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.65

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• The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning.

  Arno Hintjens

  Brotherhood, Cost, Warning

  "Assassin's Creed: Unity". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 2014.

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