quotes about Assassins
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Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.
-- Alvin Toffler -
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Apparently it was unethical for lawyers to sleep with their clients. This from a man who offered legal representation to assassins.
-- Carrie VaughnSource : Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand”, p.20, Hachette UK
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We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be?
-- Charlie Sheen -
Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?,
-- Cyril Wecht -
Je ne peux plus continuer de rapper.. J'ai assassiné l'alphabet !
-- Eminem -
I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
-- Gene Hackman -
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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 -
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
-- Indira Gandhi -
On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
-- Jean Rostand -
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
-- Jean Rostand -
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Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
Hope. An emotion that always kept suckering me in, time after time, despite my supposed retirement from the assassin business. Hope. The one thing that always seemed to get me into more trouble than just killing people for money ever had. Ah, hope. Sometimes, I really hated it.
-- Jennifer Estep -
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 -
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.
-- John Philpot Curran -
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I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
-- Ken LivingstoneSource : 2000 On Margaret Thatcher. In The Times, 7 Mar.
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Why are you all here?" "One of Bantazar's assassins hit you with an exomangler," Lore said. "He's dead." "A lot dead." Wraith snorted and high-fived Lore. "Massive deadness.
-- Larissa Ione -
How to throw assassins off balance: cry in front of them.
-- Leah Cypess -
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
-- Malcolm LowrySource : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.105, Open Road Media
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And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.
-- Marco Polo -
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.
-- Mohsin HamidSource : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
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The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.
-- Norman ParkinsonSource : 1984 In the NewYorker,10 Dec.
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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 ScottSource : "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK". Book by Peter Dale Scott, June 22, 1996.
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When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.
-- R.L. LaFevers -
My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―
-- Raymond E. FeistSource : Raymond E. Feist (1990). “Prince of the Blood”, Spectra
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Assassin?...that sounds so exotic...i was just a murderer
-- Richard Kuklinski -
I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.
-- Robert Lopez -
How do you politely explain to someone that you had believed for years he was a moron as well as a Fool? Fitz in Assassin's Apprentice
-- Robin Hobb -
Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
-- Sarah Vowell -
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Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism ...
-- Spiro T. Agnew -
Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.
-- Suetonius -
Ben: "Gorog's no assassin! She's my best friend." Mara: "She's an insect, Ben." Ben: "So? Your best friend's a lizard." Mara: "Don't be ridiculous. Aunt Leia is my best friend." Ben: "Doesn't count. She's family. Saba is a lizard." Mara: "Okay, maybe my best friend's a lizard.
-- Troy Denning -
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 SimpkinsSource : "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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A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.
-- William Soutar -
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 SosaSource : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
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I'm probably going to have to go with Kobester. He's an assassin with LeBron coming right after.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -