Assassins Quotes - Page 6

• Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Scary, Bullets, Protection

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• Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Real, Men, Play

  "Dirty Hands". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre (Act 4, Scene 6), April 2, 1948.

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• I don't want to do panel games or adverts. I really like challenges. I always get roles as an art teacher or a photographer. In the future I want to play something like a mugger/assassin/pastry chef.

  Dylan Moran

  Teacher, Art, Games

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• The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.

  Lysander Spooner

  Law, Liberty, Body

  Lysander Spooner (1850). “A Defence for Fugitive Slaves”, p.27

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• An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Doors, Small Rooms

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• A MAN FEARED 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

  Wise, Men, Might

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Girl, Children, Emotional

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• So... you're an assassin?" Dave asked incredulously. "Why do I feel like you'd have used the same tone if I'd just confessed to being a stripper?" I demanded. "Sorry," he said quickly. "I'm just surprised, is all.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Sorry, Tone, Like You

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• Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

  Robin Hobb

  Thinking, Comforting, Royal

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest”, p.1150, Del Rey

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• If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

  Scott Adams

  Funny Work, Ideas, Looks

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• Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

  William James

  Attitude, Procrastination, Tasks

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• Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thoughtful, Perfect, Majesty

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.160, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Apparently with no surprise To any happy Flower The Frost beheads it at its play -- In accidental power -- The blonde Assassin passes on -- The Sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another Day For an Approving God.

  Emily Dickinson

  Flower, Play, Blonde

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.98, Wordsworth Editions

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• We have nothing to fear but fear itself," Otto replied. "Oh, and a megalomaniacal headmaster, the world's deadliets assassin, giant mutated plant monsters, an international cartel of supervillains, and the security forces of every country on earth, but other than that...just fear.

  Mark Walden

  Country, Courage, Fear

  Mark Walden (2009). “The Overlord Protocol”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Redd turned to her assassins. "What is it I always say?" The Cat, Sacrenoir, and the others bandied uncertain glances about. "Don’t be stupid?" ventured Alistaire. "I should kill you now?" offered The Cat. "Do I have to murder everyone myself?" tried Siren. "No, idiots! When in doubt, go for the head. That’s what I always say.

  Frank Beddor

  Stupid, Cat, Doubt

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• What good was owning the world when he’d have no choice except to defend himself against every person in it? Personally, he’d rather be a beggar with one true friend than a prince surrounded by two-faced assassins.’ (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  True Friend, Two, Choices

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.27, Macmillan

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• No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves. Fitz in Assassin's Quest

  Robin Hobb

  Warrior, Dragons, Quests

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Quest: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.739, Spectra

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• But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings.

  Jennifer Estep

  Night, Feelings, Dozen

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• A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.

  Brent Weeks

  Boys, Missing, Target

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• He just didn't look like the kind of creep that would messily murder a woman in her hotel room; he looked like the kind of creep that could line her up in the sights of an assassins rifle without a shred of emotion.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sight, Rifles, Looks

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.40, Dell

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• Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history.

  Harold Covington

  Cynical, Holocaust, Littles

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• Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

  Russell Brand

  Spiritual, Pain, Self

  Russell Brand (2010). “Articles of Faith”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?

  Pat Robertson

  Atheist, Drug, Age

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• Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

  Alan Barth

  Country, Hero, Character

  "The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties". Book by Alan Barth, 1984.

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• It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Food, Men

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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