#assassin

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do. ↗

— Robin Hobb

#inspirational #life #nighteyes #robin-hobb #royal-assassin

The crowd began to murmur, but then a firm voice stilled it. Giovanni Auditore was speaking.'It is you who is the traitor, Uberto. You, one of my closest associates and friends, in whom I entrusted my life! And I am a fool. I did not see that you are one of them!' Here he raised his voice to a great cry of anguish and of rage.'You may take our lives today, but mark this - we will have yours in return!' -Giovanni Auditore, Before his execution ↗

— Oliver Bowden

#giovanni-auditore #uberto #life

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman. ↗

— Russell Baker

#emma #especially #figures #flamboyant #good

And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so. ↗

— Lindy Boggs

#connotation #dallas #dangerous #devoted #following

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#does #fan #following #think #you

I especially object to having my character assassinated by reference to events from my past which bear absolutely no relationship to the question of who the anthrax killer is. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#anthrax #assassinated #bear #character #especially

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#assassins #idealism #without #words

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#always #assassination #boy #coffin #father

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin. ↗

— Alexander Cockburn

#assassin #dagger #soldier #sword #weapon

Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#after #assassination #being #biggest #bin